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Hercule Poirot: Appointment with Death on Masterpiece Mystery PBS – A Recap & Review

Posted in Masterpiece Mystery, tagged , , , , , on 25 July 2010 | 11 Comments »

Three quarters into the new to Masterpiece Mystery presentation of Agatha Christie’s Appointment with Death tonight, her detective Hercule Poirot proclaimed to the roundup of suspects “This case mon ami, is full of the red fish.” I couldn’t agree more. In this 2008 ITV/PBS liberal adaptation by screenwriter Guy Andrews there are red herrings leaping [...]

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Hercule Poirot: Third Girl on Masterpiece Mystery PBS – A Recap & Review

Posted in Masterpiece Mystery, tagged , , , , , , , on 19 July 2010 | 14 Comments »

If Masterpiece Mystery fans were unsettled by last week’s uncharacteristically dark and moralistic production of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, then absolution is in order with Third Girl, a total turn-around back to the sophisticated Art Deco 1930’s London and country manor house crime dramas that we have come to cherish and expect. [...]

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Hercule Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express on Masterpiece Mystery PBS – A Recap & Review

Posted in Masterpiece Mystery, tagged , , , , on 15 July 2010 | 39 Comments »

Mystery fans were treated to the opening of season X of Poirot on Masterpiece Mystery last Sunday with a new episode of Murder on the Orient Express, one of Agatha Christie’s most famous novels. Amazingly, this new production is only the second time it has been adapted for television and follows the famous and glitzy [...]

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Masterpiece Mystery PBS 2010 Season Preview

Posted in Masterpiece Mystery, tagged , , , , , on 29 April 2010 | 27 Comments »

The game is afoot as crime season begins again on Masterpiece Mystery on PBS this Sunday, May 2nd. The 2010 line-up offers the best in British mysteries presenting a great selection of super sleuths to feed any whodunit addict’s desire for murder and mayhem. Returning in new episodes will be Michael Kitchen in Foyle’s War, Julia McKenzie [...]

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Masterpiece Mystery: Mrs. McGinty’s Dead

Posted in Masterpiece Mystery, tagged , , , , on 29 June 2009 |

Who would want to bludgeon to death a humble country charwoman? Suspicions lead Superintendent Spence (Richard Hope) to conclude that her dodgy tenant James Bentley (Joe Absolom) who has fallen on hard times was motivated by theft to commit the crime. After Bentley is convicted and sentenced to die by the gallows, things still do [...]

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Masterpiece Mystery: Cat Among Pigeons Sings Like a Canary

Posted in Masterpiece Mystery, tagged , , on 22 June 2009 | 5 Comments »

Agatha Christie mystery fans were dancing on tabletops across America tonight, when David Suchet returned as their favorite fastidious Belgian super sleuth Hercule Poirot, in Masterpiece Mystery’s opening episode of Six By Agatha – Hercule Poirot: Cat Among Pigeons on PBS. It was more than worth the wait for this long time Masterpiece Mystery fan. What [...]

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