Word: poirot
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...Davies' production quickly brushes away any cobwebs. Diana Rigg, as Martha, the university president's daughter frustrated with her underachieving history-teacher husband, is acid, sexy and funny without turning into a camp diva spewing one-liners. She is matched snide-for-snide by David Suchet (PBS's Poirot), with his oversize glasses and chiseled, world-weary sarcasm. Together with Lloyd Owen and Clare Holman as the young couple drawn into the game playing, they bring out all the lacerating power and poignancy of Albee's depiction of the blasted American Dream. Make that everyone's dream...
Somebody call Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes. There's an ECAC team out there who might mystify them both...
...genre, a taste for restoring established order. Victorians so yearned to watch Sherlock Holmes perform his tricks again and again that after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle killed him out of boredom, he gave in and resurrected the great detective. Dame Agatha Christie had the same murderous impulse toward Hercule Poirot, but slyly tucked the manuscript away until her demise. To this day, the first thing publishers ask is whether a mystery can become a series, a literary annuity...
...British archaeologist A.H. Layard uncovered the lamassu, colossal, winged bull-men that guarded the palace entrances. One hundred years later, the site was extensively re-excavated by Max Mallowan, whose mystery-writing wife Agatha Christie kept an office at the Nimrud Digs House and composed portions of an Hercule Poirot novel, Murder in Mesopotamia, at the site...
...instead over format. Most writers seem to prefer one-shot stories, as full of catharsis as a classic tragedy, while publishers -- and readers -- clamor for series in which a likable, marketable character appears again and again. The series hero offers predictable pleasures, and some outstanding examples -- Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Nero Wolfe -- attract faithful followers who are not otherwise fans of the mystery form. For writers, however, the series format imposes so many constraints that they may feel they are writing the same book over and over. Small wonder that Conan Doyle sent Holmes plummeting over the Reichenbach Falls, only...