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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Country Life

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Planning a Dickens dinner party is an enjoyable mental game. John Jarndyce and Miss Betsey Trotwood would be excellent hosts. Could Mr Fezziwig lighten the heart of ‘the lone lorn creetur' Mrs Gummidge with his jollity? Sydney Carton would be a good

Woman

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David Tennant stars as Phileas Fogg in this new adaptation of Jules Verne’s novel. Phileas is joined on his voyage by sidekick Passepartout (Ibrahim Koma) and journalist Abigail Fix (Leonie Benesch).  The cookery show returned earlier this year afte

Los Angeles Times

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No one is rooting for the Night King. If we want a show about zombies taking over the Earth, we can rewatch "The Walking Dead." But that hasn't stopped oddsmakers from keeping the cold villain in the hunt for the crown. There are even theories that B

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

Chat

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Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet opens with a street scuffle that leads to a duel between Benvolio and which member of the Capulet family? Solve the puzzle by following the arrows and writing in your answers. Then read down the letters in the shaded sq

Los Angeles Times

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After two episodes of tense reunions and fireside farewells, the big war that's been coming since the first episode of "Game of Thrones" begins this Sunday. And though some fans have grown impatient with the season-long "sitzkreig" that's seen more c

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

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.

The Atlantic

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Update, March 31: Schedules permitting, my colleague Spencer Kornhaber, Ross Douthat of the New York Times, and I will be recapping episodes of Game of Thrones as the season progresses. King's Landing, Winterfell, the Wall, Pentos... Vaes Dothrak, t

Los Angeles Times

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Warning: This story contains spoilers for the finale of "Game of Thrones." The biggest trick "Game of Thrones" played on its audience was not the two-season buildup to a battle with the Night King that lasted only one episode or the survival of way m

The Atlantic

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The tagline for the fourth season of HBO's Game of Thrones is "All men must die." Given how brutally the series has unfolded to date, I think it's important to note that despite the overall accuracy of the statement—both as a general acknowledgement

Los Angeles Times

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A girl is Arya Stark of Winterfell and she's going to win the Iron Throne. Throughout "Game of Thrones," Arya (Maisie Williams) has shown zero interest in ruling Westeros or the games people play in the name of gaining political power. Instead, her f

Country Life

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1812 Born in Portsmouth on February 7 1824 The young Charles has to leave school because his father (as was Mr Micawber) is imprisoned in Marshalsea for debt; works in a blacking factory for three years 1827 Starts job as clerk to an attorney 1830 Fa

The Atlantic

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Three Atlantic staffers discuss “Book of the Stranger,” the fourth episode of the sixth season.

The Atlantic

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Spencer Kornhaber, Christopher Orr, and Amy Sullivan discuss the latest episode of Game of Thrones. Kornhaber: Westeros: where preteen girls gleefully stab pedophiles in the neck and incestuous royal siblings banter about the scent of rotting cat. Tr