Branagh’s adaptations are more concerned with Poirot himself than any of the suspects – the murder in this film only happens 70 minutes in.
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Rumours and gossip dominated his short reign and the stories were more than just about the Princes in the Tower.
Account of the murders written by Thomas More was based more in fact than fiction.
English professor Frannie Thorstin gets tangled in a sticky web of male attention in the novel and film versions of In the Cut as she tries to sort the bad guys from the good.
Christie used her Belgian sleuth to unpick ideas of England and Englishness.
Sixty years after it premiered, Psycho remains Hitchcock’s most celebrated film. But it is really two films, glued together by the most iconic scene in cinema history.
Prosecutors say they’ve closed Sweden’s most famous cold case. But many Swedes still have doubts. The crime and botched investigation have been a ‘national trauma’ for this normally peaceful place.
If only DNA samples and microfibres made crimes as easy to solve as on CSI.
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