Four books of various quality
I thought I'd make a post on some books I've read lately. Unfortunately, it's not a good bunch, so I'll start off with the best one: Eric Ambler's The Light of Day AKA the origin of the film TopkapiThe interesting thing about this book is that while the plot is almost the same (there are some differences to how the heist is carried out, but not big
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Looking back, I see I mostly mention Christie in multifandom posts, so it's not so strange that you've missed it.
She's surprisingly good at them, given that she apparently didn't like writing them into her mystery books.
Sometimes they feel tacked on (and she has an unfortunate preference for dull, imperial-builder men), but some of them are great.
I also love The Moving Finger, and it's largely because of the cast of characters.
Yeah. I love Megan; she's really affected my view of Shakespeare. (As has Julia in Cat Among the Pigeons.) It's funny, the same actress who played her in the recent adaptation also played Angela in Five Little Pigs.
It kind of makes me sad that they used Peter Ustinov for the movie of Murder on the Nile, because everything else in the movie is >>> the Suchet adaptations IMO, but Ustinov just is not Poirot the way Suchet is.
Yeah - it's been a long time since I saw that film, but I feel pretty much the same about Murder on the Orient Express. Although I think Ustinov in general is at least somewhat closer to the mark than Finney.
Apparently Suchet read the books and memorized all the details on Poirot. (Or possible wrote them down.)
Whoa, it's a real-life story? That's...awful. Ugh, the stupidity of people, sigh.
Yeah. Wikipedia says: In her autobiography, Tierney related that after the woman had recounted her story, she just stared at her silently, then turned and walked away. She wrote, "After that I didn't care whether ever again I was anyone's favorite actress." That's got to be the most awful thing a fan has ever done (except maybe that guy who shot Reagan for Jodie Foster.)
To tell the truth, after reading that article, I'm a bit iffed out that Christie wrote a mystery novel about it, and with the Tierney character as the murderess, no less. And all while Tierney was still alive! But then, authors are cannibals...
And Mrs. Dane Calthrop shows up again, I just can't remember when...
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