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shoebox2

In which murder can sometimes smell like hot buttered crumpets

Aug 02, 2008 21:51

So I was thinking about this Agatha Christie post thing - I do that from time to time, thinking - and decided that I wasn't going to work my way systematically through the entire canon, a la fuzzy little Bully the Wodehouse-obsessed blogging bull. Just because others have heroically blazed the trail doesn't mean I have to follow them down it, say I ( Read more... )

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I miss Columbo.... anonymous August 3 2008, 17:20:08 UTC

All I can say is after seeing 11 years of Murder She Wrote, it makes me wonder why anyone would hang around known crime solvers, since a murder must inevitably happen around them! But I admit, I miss the old Columbo series badly, as it nicely flips the whole genre on its ear, and Peter Falk is brilliant as Columbo. Sometimes the Americans get it right....

But the perspective Watson has on the English mystery genre is quite accurate and funny. Dig in, Ms Shoebox2!

Re: I miss Columbo.... shoebox2 August 10 2008, 15:20:07 UTC

Ooh, Columbo! One of the rare shining moments of the TV mystery genre, I do agree. And using tactics interestingly reminiscent of the ones Christie would employ to get her effects, too.

As for Murder, She Wrote...I just recently read an interesting Net theory re: Jessica Fletcher: that she's actually a Reaper (from the series Dead Like Me) with guilt issues that lead her to catch the killer as well. There are times when I really do love the Internet.