Agatha's Unsung Sleuths
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Occasional thoughts on Agatha Christie's lesser-recurring detectives.
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Agatha's Unsung Sleuths
Writings on Agatha Christie's lesser-recurring detectives
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Agatha's Unsung Sleuths is an occasional blog about the lesser-recurring detectives in Agatha Christie's fiction. I hope you enjoy watching it grow!
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Chronological Christie
There are tons of brilliant Agatha Christie podcasts out there – The (fabulous – and fabulously named) Swinging Christies: Agatha Christie in the 1960s; All About Agatha; The Labours of…
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July 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I really enjoy this podcast from @gilli.bsky.social and @alanjporter.bsky.social - give it a whirl if you haven't already.
#agathachristie #chronologicalchristie
#agathachristie #chronologicalchristie
Hello - it's been ages! I've been trying to work out some thoughts on the format and structure of The Mysterious Mr Quin, and with a busy full time job and family commitments, it's taking a long time. So here's something on Tommy "more-than-a-sidekick" Beresford for now.
Carrot top
I’ve not written much about Thomas Beresford. Reading the Tommy and Tuppence novels, he has always been – for me – effortlessly eclipsed by the bright, sparky, adventurous (and, l…
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July 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Hello - it's been ages! I've been trying to work out some thoughts on the format and structure of The Mysterious Mr Quin, and with a busy full time job and family commitments, it's taking a long time. So here's something on Tommy "more-than-a-sidekick" Beresford for now.
I love spending time with Mr Satterthwaite and it turns out I have a lot of thoughts about him. Here are some - but there's much more to follow, I suspect.
Observer, Messenger… Action Hero?
Mr Satterthwaite is, to me, an intriguing character. I’ve said before that re-reading Agatha Christie for this project has thrown up some surprises; in the case of Mr Satterthwaite, this mean…
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June 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I love spending time with Mr Satterthwaite and it turns out I have a lot of thoughts about him. Here are some - but there's much more to follow, I suspect.
After my holiday break, here's something on how the #agathachristie female protagonists are very much not a type, explored here through Anne Beddingfield and Tuppence Beresford.
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Playing against type
It’s often easy to see the young female protagonists in Agatha Christie’s writing as a type – plucky, curious, maybe a bit headstrong. I’m sure reading this that a whole host of n…
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April 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
After my holiday break, here's something on how the #agathachristie female protagonists are very much not a type, explored here through Anne Beddingfield and Tuppence Beresford.
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This could be a great Agatha Christie adaptation - it's such a ridiculously fun story. I'm split on the casting, though. Helena Bonham-Carter is a massive yes, perfect, and changing Lord to Lady C, for me, absolutely works. Battle, however... hmmmm. I'm not convinced.
Mia McKenna-Bruce Leads the Investigation in The Seven Dials Mystery
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April 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This could be a great Agatha Christie adaptation - it's such a ridiculously fun story. I'm split on the casting, though. Helena Bonham-Carter is a massive yes, perfect, and changing Lord to Lady C, for me, absolutely works. Battle, however... hmmmm. I'm not convinced.
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Agatha Christie’s letters reveal clashes with her publisher @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Agatha Christie’s letters reveal clashes with her publisher
The queen of crime disagreed with Billy Collins over the titles and covers of her books, according to correspondence found in a Glasgow archive
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April 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Colonel Race is hard to pin down. Here are some initial thoughts on his characterisation. I'm not sure Agatha Christie always does him justice.
An awkward three-legged Race
Colonel Race is a difficult character to pin down. He’s quite chameleonic. If I were being ungenerous, I might say he’s a bit of a stooge; a useful outline of a character to fill up wit…
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April 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Colonel Race is hard to pin down. Here are some initial thoughts on his characterisation. I'm not sure Agatha Christie always does him justice.
Re-reading Agatha Christie's Harley Quin stories to reacquaint myself with Mr Satterthwaite; this tickled me.
April 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Re-reading Agatha Christie's Harley Quin stories to reacquaint myself with Mr Satterthwaite; this tickled me.
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The novels of Agatha Christie helped M. Night Shyamalan assemble the cast of characters for his 2021 beach-based thriller Old.
How Agatha Christie Inspired One Of M. Night Shyamalan's Strangest Thrillers - SlashFilm
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March 30, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The novels of Agatha Christie helped M. Night Shyamalan assemble the cast of characters for his 2021 beach-based thriller Old.
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I've just finished a re-read of The Man in the Brown Suit, and I couldn't help but compare Anne Beddingfield to Tuppence Beresford. Boy, do I have some thoughts!
Here are a few on Tuppence, most definitely a woman ahead of her time.
Here are a few on Tuppence, most definitely a woman ahead of her time.
Money, men and marriage – and Tuppence
It feels a bit redundant to write about Tuppence Beresford as a progressive. After all, can anyone deny it? Apart from the outward signifier of a bob as early as 1920 (possibly the influence of the…
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March 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I've just finished a re-read of The Man in the Brown Suit, and I couldn't help but compare Anne Beddingfield to Tuppence Beresford. Boy, do I have some thoughts!
Here are a few on Tuppence, most definitely a woman ahead of her time.
Here are a few on Tuppence, most definitely a woman ahead of her time.
I've just finished a re-read of The Man in the Brown Suit, and I couldn't help but compare Anne Beddingfield to Tuppence Beresford. Boy, do I have some thoughts!
Here are a few on Tuppence, most definitely a woman ahead of her time.
Here are a few on Tuppence, most definitely a woman ahead of her time.
Money, men and marriage – and Tuppence
It feels a bit redundant to write about Tuppence Beresford as a progressive. After all, can anyone deny it? Apart from the outward signifier of a bob as early as 1920 (possibly the influence of the…
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March 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I've just finished a re-read of The Man in the Brown Suit, and I couldn't help but compare Anne Beddingfield to Tuppence Beresford. Boy, do I have some thoughts!
Here are a few on Tuppence, most definitely a woman ahead of her time.
Here are a few on Tuppence, most definitely a woman ahead of her time.
I've set up a Facebook page for my #AgathaChristie blog because, as it turns out, it gets a lot more traffic from Facebook than elsewhere. I'd love it if you could give me a like / follow / share if you use it. Thanks! (The content will be just the same)
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March 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I've set up a Facebook page for my #AgathaChristie blog because, as it turns out, it gets a lot more traffic from Facebook than elsewhere. I'd love it if you could give me a like / follow / share if you use it. Thanks! (The content will be just the same)
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What does your Agatha Christie collection look like? Mine is VERY mixed.
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Mainly concerning books christietecs.wordpress.com/2025/03/22/m...
Mainly concerning books
Over a period of a few years, I bought every single Agatha Christie from second hand book shops and the odd library sale, so there’s a real mish-mash of styles, publishers, covers and eras in…
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March 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
What does your Agatha Christie collection look like? Mine is VERY mixed.
Mainly concerning books christietecs.wordpress.com/2025/03/22/m...
Mainly concerning books christietecs.wordpress.com/2025/03/22/m...
The recent BBC adaptation of Towards Zero was poorer for the lack of Battle, IMO. What a great character, and so deftly handled by Agatha.
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Scotland Yard's Finest christietecs.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/s...
Scotland Yard’s Finest
Towards Zero is Superintendent Battle’s final outing, almost 20 years on from his first, and we finally see him invested with much more humanity, agency and personality than on any other occasion. …
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March 23, 2025 at 7:28 AM
The recent BBC adaptation of Towards Zero was poorer for the lack of Battle, IMO. What a great character, and so deftly handled by Agatha.
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Scotland Yard's Finest christietecs.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/s...
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The non-mysterious disappearance of Agatha Christie
And what really happened
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March 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Tommy and Tuppence deserves a "The Crown" treatment. All four books have a time jump! cast four pairs of killer actors aged 20s to 70s and release it as one miniseries!
March 17, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Tommy and Tuppence deserves a "The Crown" treatment. All four books have a time jump! cast four pairs of killer actors aged 20s to 70s and release it as one miniseries!
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Utterly delighted to finally be able to reveal the new Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution map which I did the research for witnesscountyhall.com
Witness for the Prosecution
Official Box Office. NO BOOKING FEES. IN THE MAGNIFICENT LONDON COUNTY HALL, SOUTHBANK, SE1
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March 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Utterly delighted to finally be able to reveal the new Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution map which I did the research for witnesscountyhall.com
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Battle, murder, and sudden death! The wonderful Superintendent Battle has been keeping me occupied this week.
Battle, murder, and sudden death! The wonderful Superintendent Battle has been keeping me occupied this week.
Towards Battle
Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard is a well known character to any regular Christie reader. His solid and dependable personage looms large, physically and metaphorically, in the canon, and …
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March 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Battle, murder, and sudden death! The wonderful Superintendent Battle has been keeping me occupied this week.
Battle, murder, and sudden death! The wonderful Superintendent Battle has been keeping me occupied this week.
Tuppenny Mother christietecs.wordpress.com/2025/03/10/y...
We don't really see Tommy and Tuppence as parents- but Mrs Blenkensop is quite revealing.
We don't really see Tommy and Tuppence as parents- but Mrs Blenkensop is quite revealing.
Tuppenny Mother
We are not privileged to share Tommy and Tuppence’s domestic lives as parents. There are 12 years between publication of Partners in Crime and N or M?, during which time the pair have raised their …
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March 16, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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We don't really see Tommy and Tuppence as parents- but Mrs Blenkensop is quite revealing.
We don't really see Tommy and Tuppence as parents- but Mrs Blenkensop is quite revealing.
Agatha's Unsung Sleuths is an occasional blog about the lesser-recurring detectives in Agatha Christie's fiction. I hope you enjoy watching it grow!
christietecs.wordpress.com
christietecs.wordpress.com
Agatha's Unsung Sleuths
Writings on Agatha Christie's lesser-recurring detectives
christietecs.wordpress.com
March 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Agatha's Unsung Sleuths is an occasional blog about the lesser-recurring detectives in Agatha Christie's fiction. I hope you enjoy watching it grow!
christietecs.wordpress.com
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Meet Tommy and Tuppence christietecs.wordpress.com/2025/03/02/m...
Meet Tommy and Tuppence
Tommy and Tuppence are indisputable enduring fan favourites. We are invited into their lives from when they first meet, attempting to make sense of 1920s the post-war England, though their lives, u…
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March 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Meet Tommy and Tuppence christietecs.wordpress.com/2025/03/02/m...