Agatha Christie
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Stuart Turton on Widnes: ‘It was famous for its smell. On bad days, the air punched you in the nose’Paul Simon was apparently so demoralised by the place he wrote ‘Homeward Bound’ on the station platform – but unlike Turton, he was only visiting
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The week in TV: The ABC Murders; Watership Down; You; The Dead Room; Mrs Brown’s BoysJohn Malkovich’s turn as an ageing Hercule Poirot fleshed out the Belgian sleuth, while Watership Down offered gory lessons in team management
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Agatha Christie: the case of theatre's criminal mastermindThe queen of the whodunnit has never gone away, but with John Malkovich playing Poirot and two radical stage adaptations, it’s no mystery why a new generation is falling for her -
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A book by any other name: why does the US change so many titles?Stuart Turton’s new novel The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle has been supersized to Seven and a Half – and not because Americans die more often
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Janet Hargreaves obituaryActor who played the villainous Rosemary Hunter in the ITV serial Crossroads in the 1970s
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The hot spell did it: death of oak that gave Agatha Christie shelterTorbay council says tree under which crime writer watched cricket has to be removed
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Top writers choose their perfect crimeCrime fiction is now the UK’s bestselling genre. So which crime novels should everyone read? We asked the writers who know ...



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