Category: 1940s
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Part for a Poisoner
ECR Lorac, published 1948. Published in America as Place for a Poisoner. I’ll start by saying I find E.C.R Lorac’s (born Edith Caroline Rivett) writing consistently enjoyable and I’ll forever be grateful for British Library Crime Classics to introducing her to me. I find she’s a bit more subtle than Christie, with less of the…
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Towards Zero – BBC adaptation
Like most Christie’s fans, a new BBC adaptation is a big event in my year. I was extra excited when I realised that the book chosen to adapt was Towards Zero, one of my favourites, and one of Christie’s more psychology heavy novels. In the lead up to the release I made the choice to…
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Reading suicide in Agatha Christie – part one
Below is the introduction from my MA dissertation, titled Justice, despair or plot; reading suicide in the novels of Agatha Christie, submitted in 2022 as part of Medical Humanities at Birkbeck. When one looks at collected thematic works of Agatha Christie, for example the upcoming Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie, similar themes emerge: the impact…
One of those three 