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Why The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd Needs To Be A Future Agatha Christie Film Adaptation

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is one of Agatha Christie's best novels. So, it could become one of the great Agatha Christie movies. Let me explain.

Cinemablend

Publisher Omits Expression from French Translations of Agatha Christie’s Novels

The French translations of Agatha Christie’s novels are revised “to omit the terms and expressions seen as offensive or referring to the bodies or origins of the characters, and to bring them into line with other international editions,” the spokesperson to Masque, the publisher of Christie’s novels in French, told…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Orient Express to axe UK section after 41 years due to Brexit

Luxury train operator cuts service ahead of biometric passport checks so passengers will have to join train in Paris

The Guardian - UK

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Christopher Gunning obituary

Composer best known for creating the theme music for the popular and long-running ITV series Poirot

The Guardian - UK

Agatha Christie's novels edited to remove likely offensive language

'Queen of Crime' Agatha Christie is best known for her detective novels, particularly Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple series. The English writer wrote between 1920 to 1976, and her works are widely read across the world even today. Now news is that several of her novels are edited to remove…

The Times of India

Agatha Christie books, including Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries, to be rewritten for modern sensitivities

The n-word and the term ‘Oriental’ are among the language being removed from new editions

The Independent UK

Agatha Christie novels being rewritten due to 'modern sensitivities'

Poirot, Miss Marple and other characters no longer used the N-word, the term ‘Oriental’ or 'native' in the Queen of Crime's mysteries

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Agatha Christie books, including Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries, to be rewritten for modern sensitivities

The n-word and the term ‘Oriental’ are among the language being removed from new editions

The Independent UK

Jamie Dornan: 'Kenneth Branagh’s moustache made me feel insecure'

The Tourist star was also joined by James Norton, Sophie Okonedo, Derry Girls actress Siobhan McSweeney, and Lewis Capaldi

Belfast Live

Russian diplomat, Indian politician spar over oligarch’s death

Indian police are investigating the death of sausage magnate Pavel Antov over the Christmas weekend.

Al Jazeera

Scots game company wins Bafta for its take on Hercule Poirot

GLASGOW-based company Blazing Griffin received the Best Game award at the Scottish Baftas for their original story featuring famous detective…

The National (Scotland)

"Magpie Murders" reinvents the detective

Tim McMullan spoke to Salon about playing a book detective who steps into the real world to help solve a murder

Salon

9 Angela Lansbury favorites to watch and where to find them

You're not alone if you saw the news of Angela Lansbury's death Tuesday, at 96, and thought about turning on an episode of "Murder, She Wrote," the beloved mystery series she starred in from 1984 to 1996 as a writer and amateur detective on the coast of Maine. Or, for…

Los Angeles Times

'A Haunting In Venice': 'Belfast' cast members to reunite for new Kenneth Branagh movie

Jamie Dornan and Jude Hill are set to star in A Haunting In Venice

Belfast Live

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Los Angeles Times

Two podcasters set out to read every Agatha Christie book. It became much more than that

LOS ANGELES — At first glance, Kemper Donovan's backyard bungalow appears perfectly normal for this Santa Monica neighborhood, but a few clues suggest otherwise.

Irish Mirror

Kenneth Branagh reunites with Belfast stars Jamie Dornan and Jude Hill for new Agatha Christie movie

Branagh will join forces once again with Jude Hill and Jamie Dornan on his upcoming Agatha Christie adaptation, A Haunting in Venice

The Independent UK

David Suchet recalls thinking birthday invite to lunch with Queen was ‘a hoax’

The actor also hailed the late monarch as ‘very relaxed and very smiley and twinkly’.

Los Angeles Times

Why making 'Glass Onion' scared Rian Johnson even more than 'The Last Jedi'

One of the undisputed hits of this year's Toronto International Film Festival has been writer-director Rian Johnson's "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery."

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Chicago Sun-Times

Despite powerhouse cast, ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ lumbers along at snail’s pace

Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery succumbs to slow-paced adaptation at Drury Lane Theatre.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine’s latest weapon in the war: Jokes

As war has become the new normal, Ukrainians turn to dark humour to belittle Russia and lift national spirit.

The Conversation

How crime fiction went global, embracing themes from decolonisation to climate change

Once seen as the purview of British and American writers, crime fiction is very much a global phenomenon. Fictional investigators such as Lisbeth Salander, Kurt Wallander and Jules Maigret are now perhaps as well known as Hercule Poirot, Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe.

Chicago Sun-Times

The Mix: Cool things to do in Chicago Aug. 25-31

The Chicago Dance Crash, the Taste of Greektown and “Dreamgirls’ are among the entertainment highlights in the week ahead.

The Guardian - UK

Detective debuts, Pilton pop and crabs in disguise – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia plus a few jokes every Thursday – how will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

Murder on the Orient Express review – a first-class ride all the way

Henry Goodman gives us every inch of Hercule Poirot’s dandiness and comedy in this exemplary adaptation of Christie’s ingenious murder mystery, but also gets every note of the character’s vast intelligence and pain

Evening Standard

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