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Regional Reviews: Who Killed Agatha Christie?

... Who Killed Agatha Christie? CREWE NOT FOR years have the thea tregoers of the Crewe area had the opportunity of seeing so good a thriller as Tudor Gates' Who Killed Agatha' Christie. And not for a longer period than that have they seen one presented ...

Published: Thursday 23 August 1979
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 193 | Page: 23 | Tags: review 

VILLON IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH: Dr. McCaskie's Translations are Published in Conjunction with the Originals: ..

... formation which usually irritates are informative and helpful, and the production of the book pleasing to the eye. Miss Agatha Christie is right back in her best form with THE HOLLOW (Crime Club. 8s. 6d.), which concerns both a murder and a mystery. I know ...

Published: Saturday 14 December 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1438 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

A NEW YEAR BOOK MISCELLANY: The Civil Service Pillories in Fun; Nazi spies in the Jungle; A New Agatha Christie ..

... technical, and one of them, rather surprisingly, of a dentist's chair, are an adequate addition added to his work. Mrs. Agatha Christie deserves all the admira tion that an appreciative public can show a really fine craftsman. In book after book, and I believe ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1524 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

CROOKED HOUSE

... CROOKED HOUSE. By Agatha Christie. (Collins Crime Club 8s. 6d.) IF I give a loud whoop! and say Good old Agatha Christie ! it must be understood that I use the adjective only as schoolboys and soldiers use it of their contempor- aries-- Old Tom, Old ...

Published: Wednesday 17 August 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 290 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

POIROT INVESTIGATES. By AGATHA CHRISITE. (The Bodley Head: 7s. 6d.)

... POIROT INVESTIGATES. By Agatha Christie. (The Bodlev Head 7s. 6d.l POIROT INVESTIGATES. By Agatha Christie. (The Bodley Head 7s. 6d.) Natty, companionable, acute M. Poirot needs no introduction to readers of The Sketch, where he has made so many happy ...

Published: Wednesday 16 April 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 123 | Page: 78 | Tags: Review 

Regional Reviews: The Unexpected Guest

... The Unexpected Guest YORK THE AGATHA CHRISTIE mystery. The Unexpected Guest, starts with fine visual impact-- and then subsides into rumination. i nis play was last seen in York in 1969. and now it has been given a new production by the York Theatre ...

Published: Thursday 24 July 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 273 | Page: 27 | Tags: review 

Regional Reviews: Murder On The Nile

... Murder On The Nile WORCESTER I MAY be wrong, but it seems to me that this vintage Agatha Christie thriller (originally called Hidden Horizon in 1945 and given its present name the next year) is not particularly thrilling, though it does provide opp ...

Published: Thursday 13 March 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 207 | Page: 26 | Tags: review 

Regional Reviews: The Secretary Bird

... Bird is the type of play which goes down well at Harrogate Theatre. For years light but saucy comedies have vied with Agatha Christie thrillers to be the stalwarts of the theatre's season. This story of the attractive middle-aged housewife who tries to ...

Published: Thursday 17 July 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 222 | Page: 27 | Tags: review 

THE HOLLOW

... and this one is by Agatha Christie, who knows her job to a hair. True, the first act worried me. It was clear enough that the too-amorous doctor would be murdered, and I waited anxiously for the shot. It did not come. Mrs. Christie left the man alive ...

Published: Wednesday 20 June 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review 

THE MOUSETRAP

... THE MOUSETRAP, by Agatha Christie Ambassadors Theatre Opened 25 1 1 52 Tickets: choice of all prices 15 minutes before curtain (matinee perf.) Actors, it is said, kneel on the pavement and pray for the return of the Ambassadors into general currency. ...

Published: Saturday 11 December 1965
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 246 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

Regional Reviews: Something's Afoot

... early in this zany musical spoof of the British whodunnit at Northampton's Royal Theatre. Nearly every cliche devised Dy Agatha Christie and her rivals finds its way into the plot. An odd assortment of guests arrive at a country estate on an island in the ...

Published: Thursday 05 June 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 220 | Page: 25 | Tags: review 

BOOKS IN BRIEF

... only writer of genius. One of the qualities of genius is that it demands co-operation; you can lose your place in an Agatha Christie and it doesn't matter, but Mr. Golding's books, The Lord of the Flies, The Inheritors and now Pincher Martin are not just ...

Published: Wednesday 21 November 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 274 | Page: 52 | Tags: Review