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Agatha Christie, She Watched
One Woman's Plot to Watch 201 Christie Adaptations Without Murdering the Director, Screenwriter, Cast, or Her Husband
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Nominated for Bouchercon's Anthony award for Best Critical/Non-Fiction!
Care to match wits with Hercule Poirot? Take tea and gossip with Miss Marple? Chase spies with Tommy and Tuppence? Agatha Christie, She Watched will introduce you to must-see movies (and must-avoid dogs) that depict the hopeful and dark sides of human nature. These movies will tantalize you, mystify you, and make you laugh at the folly of humanity.
For more than a century, Agatha Christie has been thrilling readers with her classic mystery stories as well as dark thrillers that explore the heart of evil such as And Then There Were None and Endless Night. Christie has also been a huge part of the world’s movie and television culture with more than 200 adaptations made from her stories.
Teresa Peschel watched and reviewed 201 adaptations, from the German silent movie Adventures, Inc. (1929) to See How They Run and Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (2022). Each one was rated for fidelity to the original material and its overall quality. Each review takes up two pages and is accompanied by a banner image, six cast photos, a list of the major actors, the locations where they were filmed.
Foreign movies with English subtitles from India, France, Russia, China, Japan, and Germany are also represented.
Finally, there are eight movies in which the fictional Agatha Christie appears. Watch her debate Hercule Poirot about killing him in Curtain, battle a space wasp with Doctor Who, and plot to kill her husband’s mistress.
Agatha Christie, She Watched is the only comprehensive collection of reviews about Agatha Christie adaptations. Use it to find the movies made from the novels and stories you love, fill in your movie collection, or hold an Agatha Christie festival of your own. Learn why Christie’s stories of passion and pain still grip the imaginations of her readers.
About the Author:
Teresa Peschel never planned to become a writer, nor did she plan to become an expert on film versions of Agatha Christie stories. She always read mysteries but didn't seek out Agatha's writing. Then she got a laptop of her very own, and began writing to fill the website at peschelpress.com.As a supportive wife, Teresa read and edited Bill's annotations to Agatha's first six novels. She got more and more interested and one thing led to another, resulting in this book in your hands.At various times, Teresa has been a sales clerk, a college student, a naval officer, a housewife, and a mother. She gardens, sews, reads, writes, and is interested in sustainability, science fiction and fantasy, and answering in her own fiction (as Odessa Moon) the basic questions that so many sci-fi and fantasy authors skip. Who's taking care of those kids? Who's feeding the family? Do caregivers matter or have minds of their own? Is it possible to become more?Agatha would tell you, yes. It's quite possible to reinvent yourself. Her books have been reinvented in film, many of them numerous times. The results haven't always been stellar, but they've always kept her in the public eye.As for our kitties -- Dimitri, Madeline, Lulu, and Sasha -- they danced for their treats on our social media posts on Agatha movie nights. They ensured a bigger audience than we would have gotten on our own.
Press Reviews:
From the German silent movie Adventures, Inc. (1929) to Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (2022), she covers all of your favourites (including the One True Poirot) and some you may never have heard of! The level of detail and vast array of images is incredible. — Labours of Hercule podcast
See the publisher website: Peschel Press
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