Woman's Day

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The iconic murder mystery has garnered many remakes and adaptations, but none can compete with the original. When an American businessman is found stabbed to death on board the Orient Express train, it’s up to Poirot to find which one of the colourfu

The Christian Science Monitor

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The Queen of Mystery’s legendary plot twists and beloved characters have inspired legions of fans – especially mystery authors.

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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This is a novel about female friendship. It’s also a murder mystery and a domestic drama. And it’s a story about people who mean well but don’t always do the right thing. All of those elements are wrapped up into a thoughtful book that didn’t keep me

The Writer

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A MAILMAN TASKED WITH DELIVERing a potentially life-saving secret formula to a Des Moines epidemiologist finds his life threatened by people determined to steal the information for themselves. A woman befriends the daughter of a homicide victim after

Writing Magazine

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How do you follow up one of the most fiendishly high-concept murder mystery novels ever written? If you are Stuart Turton, the author of prize-winning, bestselling, mindboggling debut The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, the answer is that you don’

Chicago Tribune

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The new version of "Murder on the Orient Express" is a film about a mustache. This culprit boasts the fiendish ability to steal focus from whatever and whomever it's up against, every time director and star Kenneth Branagh confronts a suspect as Belg

The Atlantic

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The genre’s popularity can feel like a relic of a bygone era—but these books share DNA with today’s bloodier thrillers.

The Guardian

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Miss Marple was last seen in 1976, solving a “perfect” crime committed years earlier in Agatha Christie’s Sleeping Murder. Now authors including Val McDermid, Naomi Alderman and Dreda Say Mitchell are set to continue the adventures of the elderly ama

Empire Australasia

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THERE ARE CERTAIN things you need when making a murder mystery. A murder, ideally. A mystery, preferably. But that’s not all. As Rian Johnson found when he was writing and directing his latest movie, Knives Out, there are staples of a genre that stre

The Christian Science Monitor

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The bestselling mystery writer of all time had secrets of her own. A new historical novel imagines what happened during her 11-day disappearance.

Writing Magazine

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The Charles Dickens Museum, located in the author’s house at 48 Doughty Street, London, has a new exhibition celebrating the writer’s most popular novel, Oliver Twist. The exhibition promises to delve deeper into the world of Oliver Twist than ever b

NPR

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Anthony Horowitz's latest novel is a whodunit about whodunits. He says, "I wanted it to be ... a sort of a treatise on the whole genre of murder mystery writing."

New Zealand Listener

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Massachusetts author Peter Swanson has a bibliography packed with fiendish twists, strong characters and clear nods to past crime greats such as Patricia Highsmith and Alfred Hitchcock. In his latest novel, RULES FOR PERFECT MURDERS (Faber & Faber, $

TIME

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“WHY IS IT THAT WE HAVE SUCH A NEED FOR murder mystery,” asks Susan Ryeland, the narrator of British author Anthony Horowitz’s new novel, Magpie Murders, “and what is it that attracts us—the crime or the solution? Do we have some primal need of blood

Los Angeles Times

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Watching television is my job, but it is also sometimes a recreation. The first is a solitary occupation, the second mostly shared with the person I live with, which makes it a matter of shared taste and promoting domestic harmony. Among the shows we

Literary Hub

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In post 11/8 America, the citizenry became more aware, more active, more willing to submit themselves to self-examination. Yet while the world of journals both print (Freeman’s), and online (Guernica, Lit Hub, Electric Literature), have increased the

FHM South Africa

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The Detective mystery genre has always been prevalent across all media since time immemorial, from classic novels like the Sherlock Holmes series to classic TV shows like Columbo or the recent True Detective series. Who doesn’t love a good mystery an

The Atlantic

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The Knives Out director discusses the history of film noir, why Clue is a boring game, and Baby Yoda.

CrossStitcher

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Welcome to our new stitch-a-long for 2020. Designer Amanda Butler has created an amazing ‘Alice In Wonderland’ SAL – and will be unveiling a new character from this much-loved book and Through The Looking Glass each month. In this issue we give you t

FHM US

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The Detective mystery genre has always been prevalent across all media since time immemorial, from classic novels like the Sherlock Holmes series to classic TV shows like Columbo or the recent True Detective series. Who doesn’t love a good mystery an

PC Gamer (US Edition)

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Jin Furue has been murdered. Someone has sliced the CEO in two and left one half at a TV studio, where a quiz show is being recorded. The other half of Jin won’t show up until six years later, having seemingly died just a few hours earlier. That’s th

Discover Britain

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Experience a mind-bending journey into Wonderland at the V&A’s Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser (opens 27 June). Featuring original illustrations and photographs as well as all manner of other Alice-inspired multimedia, this immersive and theatrical sh

FHM Australia

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The Detective mystery genre has always been prevalent across all media since time immemorial, from classic novels like the Sherlock Holmes series to classic TV shows like Columbo or the recent True Detective series. Who doesn’t love a good mystery an

Heritage Railway

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THE Spa Valley Railway is offering an eclectic mix of steam, whisky, mystery, and fish and chips with a series of special trains running on selected days until October. Whisky and Steam trains start on February 19, featuring three different whiskies

Literary Hub

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In June of 1891, “A Scandal in Bohemia,” the first short story featuring everyone’s favorite consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, was published in The Strand Magazine. (A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four, both novels, had already been print

Total Film

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SHERLOCK AT THIS! MORI-ARTFUL ARTH-DECENT SEE WATSON ELSEWHERE SIGN OF THE BORE MOVIE OF THE MONTH WHY MILLIE BOBBY BROWN’S ENOLA IS A TRUE DETECTIVE

Pick Me Up

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Transport to Alice’s Wonderland at the five Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Gardens this summer, as the world’s leading gardening charity partners with Macmillan Publishers to celebrate 150 years of Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland, Through the Lo

Foxtel Magazine

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With the holiday for Elizabeth II’s official birthday observed in most states and territories (Qld and WA excluded) on Monday June 8, there’s plenty to keep you entertained – from films to historical documentaries, crime dramas and everything in betw

WHO

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In the raunchy period drama about King Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), Dormer was first to get the chop as Anne Boleyn. As Margaery Tyrell in the fantasy epic, she had Cersei (Lena Headey) on her toes for a while before meeting an explosive end

Cinema Scope

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In the eight years since Poetry premiered at Cannes, narrative cinema of the sort that director Lee Chang-dong specializes in has hit a fallow period unseen in decades. Coincidence, perhaps, but one need not look much further than the festival’s inte