All posts by AndyC37

A reply to Naat98

AndyC37·2/6/2024

Here are some first impressions, looking at the works up to 1940, novels only.

1)The women tended to be portrayed as highly intelligent, not impulsive or highly emotional, generally calculative and able to exploit their advantages.

2)The killings were usually carefully planned in advance.

3)Where a woman acted in concert with a partner or partners, the woman generally undertook the planning role. They were the "brains" behind the operation.

4)Despite the cliche that poison was a woman's weapon, a wide variety of methods were used. Poison was actually a minority.

A reply to Naat98

AndyC37·2/6/2024

I am no expert on this topic but take a look at some of the journal articles in this section. Some of them seem to be exactly what you are looking for (look at the section on Christie's Characters):

https://agathachristie.fandom.com/wiki/Journal_articles_about_Agatha_Christie#Christie's_characters

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A reply to Naat98

AndyC37·1/25/2024

Great to hear of your research!

I am familiar with the interwar works of Agatha Christie so I can answer any questions you may have. Feel free to ask! I am afraid I don't know anything about Lombroso or Freud though. I'll have to read up on them.

A reply to PoAngielsku

AndyC37·8/24/2023

The Amazon website says Charles Armstrong.

A reply to Joianna

AndyC37·5/13/2023

I found one recording: https://youtu.be/FoReCyPKnyM

About 1 minute 30 seconds in. Christie is giving an introduction to the first radio broadcast of a series of Poirot stories for the American market. This was first broadcast in 1945. Here's more information:

https://agathachristie.fandom.com/wiki/Agatha_Christie%27s_Poirot_(radio_series)

Case of the Careless Victim - Agatha Christie's Hercule PoirotYouTube

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A reply to Karatziovali Ioanna

AndyC37·1/19/2023

Thanks for sharing. In the book "Murder Isn't Easy" by Carla Valentine, she demonstrates that Agatha Christie's knowledge and application of forensic science is accurate, detailed and ahead of her time.

A reply to Ian W R

AndyC37·12/10/2021

Certainly, I will be glad to help you. Can you give me an example of which page you tried to get into and what happened when you tried to edit? Can you also try to edit another page, one that you have not editied before. I would like to understand what your computer problem is. (It is true that the site has been upgraded, but I don't think there are any pages which are "restricted". You should still have editing rights--everybody has, even people who do not log in).

P.S. I took a lool--you have all the same edit rights I have and that everyone has. So the fact that you can't get in to edit is puzzling. So please describe what you experience when you try to edit and let's figure this out.

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A reply to MBZ901

AndyC37·11/14/2021

I think Gladys or Doris occurs even more frequently.

A reply to Regsuzaku

AndyC37·9/12/2021

"I also made a list of books where a new victim was killed, presumably because they knew about an older crime."

See this article: https://agathachristie.fandom.com/wiki/Old_sins_cast_long_shadows

Old sins cast long shadowsAgatha Christie Wiki

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A reply to Regsuzaku

AndyC37·9/12/2021

The person could be least likely because he/she has a very strong alibi, or else has no plausible motive.

Dedicated readers would be quite familiar with Christie's style, and so when a lot of the book focuses on some highly likely suspects, the readers dismiss them with the thought that it cannot be them because that would be too obvious. I wonder if there is a story where Christie frustrates her readers with a double twist, so that the most likely suspect, whom the readers had already dismissed as too obvious, ends up being the actual murderer.

A reply to DkBer

AndyC37·9/12/2021

That's difficult, especially since you probably want the version with English subtitles. I believe Amazon Japan (and probably other online sites in Japan) sell the DVDs with English subtitles--search for "Criminal Games".

A reply to Carolene18

AndyC37·8/28/2021

Hi, take a look at these pages:

Poirot and his foodAgatha Christie Wiki

Poirot and his drinksAgatha Christie Wiki

Eggs must be the same size, toast must be square etc..... For drinks, really sweet hot chocolate continental style with cream on top.

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A reply to Lizjg

AndyC37·1/17/2021

"I don't think I've ever read an Agatha Christie book that I didn't immediately want to read again."

That's true. Even though I already know how they end, I still enjoy reading the books again.

A reply to Lizjg

AndyC37·1/15/2021

Thanks. Which book is your favourite?

A reply to Zadmistriss

AndyC37·12/8/2020

Welcome, and jump right in! There's no complex "joining" process. Just start editing articles or contributing new ones. There are lots of articles which are at present in a very "bare" state and need to be expanded. And there are also lots of article which have typographical and other errors and they need to be corrected.

A reply to DkBer

AndyC37·10/6/2020

The Missing Will. It's a good episode and very "Christie-like" and may be even better than the original, but it has nothing to do with the original story.

A reply to AndyC37

AndyC37·9/10/2020

Ok, there are however a lot of these categories, almost every bio article has one: Hercule Poirot characters, Ariadne Oliver characters..... I think you can leave them there for now. They can form the branches of a totally different tree later.

So now, we just concentrate of creating a tree by novel, and type of short story

A reply to AndyC37

AndyC37·9/10/2020

Ok so we don't separate by the lead character

A reply to AndyC37

AndyC37·9/10/2020

In the "characters by short story" category, are you including all the Miss Marple, Poirot, Parker Pyne etc short stories or are all these separate branches of the tree?

E,g

1 Agatha Christie's characters

1.1 Recurrent characters

1.2 Hercule Poirot characters

1.2.1 Poirot characters by novel

1.2.1.1 Death in Clouds characters

1.2.1.2 Evil under the Sun characters

1.2.2 Poirot characters by short story

1.2.2.1 The Case of the Missing Will characters

1.2.2.2 Murder in the Mews characters

Or is there any need to differentiate between short story and novel characters?

AndyC37·9/9/2020 in General

A Proposed Category Tree for types of Characters

Please take a look at this proposed tree of organisation and comment

*Agatha Christie Characters

**Recurrent characters

**Hercule Poirot characters

***ABC Murders characters

***Death in the Clouds characters

***etc

**Miss Marple characters

***The Body in the Library characters

***Murder in the Vicarage characters

*Etc

*Characters not created by Agatha Christie

**Characters by other authors

**Characters from adaptations of Agatha Christie stories

***Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha characters

****Le cheval pale characters