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Tag Archives: Hercule Poirot
Mysterious murder on an archaeological site
Mystery Queen Agatha Christie and her brain-child Hercule Poirot, the middle-aged Belgian detective are my favourites whenever I have to read a suspense story. Hercule Poirot has been the second most popular detective hero in the world of mystery based … Continue reading
You are no Shelock Holmes Rajeev but I like you
Samrat Tilakdhari aka STD (Rajeev Khandelwal) is our Desi Sherlock Holmes who likes to try his hands upon challenging cases only in company of his Desi Dr. Watson – Chakradhar aka CD (Gopal Dutt). He gets a challenging assignment through … Continue reading
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Tagged Agatha Christie, Damsel in Distress, Girish Karnaad, Gopal Dutt, Hercule Poirot, James Bond, Kaushaik Ghatak, Madalsa Sharma, Mistress in Distress, Movie Review - Samrat & Co. (2014), Pooja Shanti, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Rajeeev Khandelwal, Rajshri banner, Sherlock Holmes, traditional murder mystery, whodunnit
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Mercifully human-beings can forget and they should
I have a very sharp episodic memory and I often (undesirably) boast of it. However a novel of my favourite authoress – Dame Agatha Christie has given me a new perspective of thinking. This novel is Elephants Can Remember which … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review
Tagged Ariadne Oliver, Book Review - Elephants Can Remember (by Agatha Christie), Dame Agatha Christie, Elephants can remember but we are human-beings and mercifully human-beings can forget, Hercule Poirot, Old sins leave long shadows, psychological basis of the story examining the mental status and the thought-trains of the characters involved, Unravelling of the suspense on a layer-by-layer basis just like an onion is peeled off
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Do you read detective novels and rely upon them ?
The world of fictional work can be classified in various categories / genres. One immensely popular category of such work is the stories of crime detection genre. People from all over the world have been reading / seeing such stories … Continue reading
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Tagged Agatha Christie, Amrita Singh, Avinash Wadhavan, Chunkey Pandey, Deepika Chikhliya, detective novels, Erle Stanley Gardener, Hercule Poirot, Kiran Kumar, Movie Review - Rupaye Dus Karod (1991), murder mystery, Perry Mason, Rajesh Khanna, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sonu Waalia, Surendra Mohan Pathak, Ved Prakash Sharma
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The needle of suspicion and the 74 years old hero
In any regular formulaic fiction work, especially the pulp fiction work, the lead character (male or female) is most likely to be a young one. Agatha Christie created aged detectives like Miss Jane Marple and Hercule Poirot and there can … Continue reading
Not Hercule Poirot, it’s Abhi Bhattacharya
Bimal Roy has been a highly revered filmmaker of Bangla and Hindi cinema with classics like Madhumati, Do Bigha Zameen, Bandini and Sujata to his credit. I got surprised when I found his name on the cover of the VCD … Continue reading
Murder Hunt game culminating in a real murder
Yours truly, a diehard fan of Agatha Christie, is at your service with the review of yet another AC work. As soon as I am finished with Dead Man’s Folly, my heart has prompted me to pen its review without … Continue reading
A cobweb of male-female relationships
Yours truly is back with yet another review of a novel by Dame Agatha Christie, my favourite English authoress. Today I am presenting the review of ‘The Hollow‘ which was first published in 1946. The title refers to the venue … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review
Tagged a cobweb of relationships, Book Review - The Hollow (by Agatha Christie), Dame Agatha Christie, Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned nor hell a fury like a woman scorned, Hercule Poirot, husband-wife relationship, male-female relationships, Mary Westmacott, mystery, Naivety may not always be real, Preeti-Katha, suspense, The Mourning Bride
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