Agatha Christie

ABC's 'Whodunnit?' puts amateur gumshoes to the test

2013-05-24 10:30:00

"Whodunnit?" is not your granddad's game of "Clue," nor is it a fusty version of an Agatha Christie novel. "CSI" creator Anthony E. Zuiker, for his first foray into unscripted TV, has come up with a show he's dubbed a "cinematic murder mystery of...

SXSW 2013: Selena Gomez says 'Spring Breakers' was 'liberating'

2013-03-12 06:00:00

AUSTIN, Texas -- Among the most anticipated moments of the South by Southwest film festival was the U.S. premiere of “Spring Breakers.” Directed by provocateur Harmony Korine, the movie is a sun-soaked, head-spinning look at four college girls...

Edward Gorey's gothic tales from the vault

2012-10-26 10:00:00

Twelve years after his death on tax day 2000, Edward Gorey — writer, illustrator, Victorian aesthete born half a century too late — has earned an adjective all his own: "Goreyesque." The word is used, increasingly, to refer to anything that...

Law of probability may catch up to some college football unbeatens

2012-09-29 00:00:00

The only thing more endangered than being Arkansas' head coach is being undefeated. Stanford found out Thursday night what others will discover Saturday. The Cardinal sin of losing at Washington leaves 26 unbeatens as the season winds toward an Agatha...

Scotland Yard may move its famous headquarters

2012-10-30 10:04:16

New mystery and thriller books set amid the world wars

2012-07-22 00:00:00

Mysteries and thrillers set in the years surrounding and during our two world wars have become a cottage industry. From Ken Follett's "Eye of the Needle" in the 1980s to recent novels by Charles Todd and Jacqueline Winspear, the standouts blend enough...

The Reading Life: 'Agatha Christie: An Autobiography'

2011-11-27 00:00:00

Last summer, while browsing in a used bookstore in San Luis Obispo, I discovered something I thought no longer existed — an Agatha Christie novel I had not read. Anyone monitoring my vital signs would have thought I had discovered the next Gnostic...

In this Sunday's Times: Getting to know Don DeLillo

2011-11-25 16:34:27

Carmageddon reading list: 19 books about the joys and terrors of transportation

2011-07-12 16:34:57

Writing home: Brando Skyhorse

2011-06-04 00:00:00

Bookshelves real and virtual are stocked with volumes about Los Angeles and Southern California written by people who parachute into a Westside guest house for a few weeks, hit the hot spots and high spots, then write with voice-of-God authority for...

Book review: 'The Reading Promise' by Alice Ozma

2011-06-16 00:00:00

Alice Ozma's father read to her every night before bed for 3,218 days straight. "The Streak," as Ozma and her father, Jim Brozina, called it, began when Ozma was in fourth grade and didn't stop until the day she moved into her college dormitory when she...

Monster Mash: Detroit Symphony braces for musicians' strike; Wikipedia criticized for revealing play's ending

2010-08-30 16:32:55

Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" is being performed at the Washington County Playhouse Dinner Theater, 44 N. Potomac St., downtown Hagerstown.

2013-02-26 00:00:00

Mystery writer Agatha Christie at work in March 1946 in her home, Greenway House, in Devonshire, England.

2013-01-29 13:07:00

Melinda Peterson plays Agatha Christie

2013-01-18 11:43:00