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Vardy v Rooney: ‘Wagatha Christie’ play to hit West End stage

Producer says trial asked questions about boundaries between privacy and celebrity and what it is to be a Wag

The Guardian - UK

Adam Kay: ‘Who knew Agatha Christie was totally incredible? OK, everybody, except me’

The doctor turned comedy writer on being inspired by Alan Bennett and comforted by David Sedaris

The Guardian - UK

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

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'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

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.

Los Angeles Times

Angela Lansbury: the scene-stealing grande dame of stage and screen for 75 years

Best-known as the novelist-sleuth Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote, Lansbury’s winning charm and towering talent stretches all the way back to the days of Noël Coward and Judy Garland

The Guardian - UK

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

Irish Mirror

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The Mousetrap review – the world’s longest-running play gets new life in Australia

Robyn Nevin’s take on the Agatha Christie production – which turns 70 this year – is as tight, springy and comforting as it should be

The Guardian - AU

Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap celebrates being world's longest-running play

As the Agatha Christie’s murder mystery The Mousetrap turns 70 we raise the curtain on the famous names who have starred in the world’s longest-running stage play

Daily Mirror

‘You look like an Agatha Christie villain!’ The moustache is back – but should it go away again?

After years of beards, beards and more beards, the moustache is having a moment. But do you have to be Mark Owen or Henry Cavill to carry one off? I put it to the test

The Guardian - UK

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Evening Standard

Historic art deco hotel off the coastline launches its own unique gin

The gin is made in a partnership with one of the country's most sustainable distilleries

Wales Online

Indian crime fiction writer honoured at Agatha Christie Fest

Crime fiction author Ruby Gupta, who is the Head of English Department at Indian Military Academy in Dehradun, has brought laurels by being honoured as the International Writer-in-Residence at the International Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay in Britain.

The Times of India

Mystery of Agatha Christie’s 11-day disappearance ‘solved’ by historian

Writer disappeared for 11 days in 1926 and then turned up at hotel in Yorkshire

The Independent UK

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Agatha Christie by Lucy Worsley; Marple: Twelve New Stories – review

With a keen historian’s eye, Lucy Worsley pieces together the queen of crime’s life, work and misunderstood episode of mental illness, while Val McDermid, Natalie Haynes and others put a fresh spin on Miss Marple

Salon

No mystery here: This whodunit flops

Adrien Brody, Sam Rockwell, Saorise Ronan, David Oyelowo and more populate this tepid spoof of Agatha Christie

The Guardian - UK

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith; The Skeleton Key by Erin Kelly; The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman; Sometimes People Die by Simon Stephenson; Marple: Twelve New Stories by Val McDermid and others

Chicago Sun-Times

‘See How They Run’: Meta mystery builds a sillier ‘Mousetrap’

Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan have a grand time as Scotland Yard gumshoes investigating a murder at Agatha Christie’s play.

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Review: 'See How They Run' is a breezy, clever whodunit

One question to ask when evaluating a movie is: Who is it for? The answer for "See How They Run" seems to be: Chris Hewitt.

The Guardian - UK

‘Feminist icon’ Miss Marple returns in 12 new authorised mystery stories

Agatha Christie’s detective faces a dozen fresh cases in newly commissioned work by authors including Val McDermid, Dreda Say Mitchell, Kate Mosse and Natalie Haynes

The Guardian - UK

The real mystery in See How They Run is its mishandling of The Mousetrap

The whodunnit starring Saoirse Ronan is a fun spoof but tinkers with history and never captures the unique way Agatha Christie’s play fascinated audiences in the 50s

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."

Daily Mirror

Abandoned dogs are being read books in kennels to help them sleep at night

Volunteers have been turning up to the RSPCA's Stubbington Ark Animal Centre in Fareham, Hants, to read storybooks to the dogs waiting to be placed in their forever homes

Chicago Tribune

‘See How They Run’ review: Why are newer Agatha Christie-style whodunits afraid to take the genre seriously?

A murder at a country manor kicks off the Agatha Christie play “The Mousetrap,” and a murder backstage after a London performance of said play kicks off the comedy whodunit “See How They Run.” It stars Sam Rockwell as a veteran and indolent police detective who is reluctantly paired with…

Tribune News Service

Laurie Hertzel: Readers suggest ways to climb out of book slump

I should not worry so much, because reading slumps come and go. But every time one comes, I worry that it won't ever go. What if I've permanently lost my ability to concentrate? This is certainly possible, in this age of ever-distracting social media.

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