Recently released in paperback, "Marple: Twelve New Mysteries" is a clever homage to Agatha Christie’s legendary amateur detective. You can have your mustachioed Hercules Poirot, with his finicky ...

Dame Agatha Christie remains the gold standard of mystery writers not only for her productivity -- the woman wrote 80 detective novels -- but also for her permanence. One could argue that Sherlock ...

Joan Hickson as Miss Marple in the BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie’s A Caribbean Mystery in 1989 Photo by Bill Rowntree / Mirrorpix / Getty Images In 1927, with the publication of her short story ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A number of Agatha Christie novels have been rewritten for modern sensitivities, with racist terms removed and passages of text ...

If there’s one thing the British do well, it’s mysteries. From the tales of Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to dark detective series like Luther and The Fall, the U.K. seems to serve up an ...

Just as the James Bond franchise freshened its image three years ago with actor Daniel Craig, the popular “Masterpiece Mystery!” series “Miss Marple” is breathing new life into Agatha Christie’s ...

There’s a peculiar kind of joy in settling into a modestly adorned theater, surrounded by the warm hum of an intimate audience, knowing you’re in for a quintessential whodunit. Different Stages' ...

In this disappointing anthology of authorized pastiches featuring Agatha Christie’s Jane Marple, some contributors fail to play fair with readers by not sharing the clues the elderly amateur sleuth ...

There’s nothing like a good mystery if you’re looking for a little escape. And when it comes to mysteries, no one tops Agatha Christie. Between 1920 and her death in 1976, the grande dame of British ...

Given the reaction to previous cast changes, some Mystery! fans seem to go through something akin to the various stages of grief whenever a new Jane Marple rides into town — from denial to anger to ...

About halfway through "Miss Marple," the realization struck that this was a dramatic series starring an <I>old</I> woman, something about as apt to be witnessed on American television as Sean Hannity ...