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Mystery Gambles:
A Pocket Full of Rye
Hardcover
By Agatha Christie
| Quote: | "And the cause of death?"
"There will have to be an autopsy, naturally. Very interesting case. Very interesting indeed. Glad I was able to be in on it."
The professional gusto in Bernsadorff's rich tones told Inspector Neele one thing at least.
"I gather you don't think it was natural death," he said dryly.
"Not a dog's chance of it," said Dr. Bernsdorff robustly. "I'm speaking unofficially, of course," he added with belated caution.
"Of course. Of course. That's understood. He was poisoned?"
"Definitely. And what's more - this is quite unofficial, you understand - just between you and me - I'd be prepared to lay a bet on what the poison was."
"In-deed?"
"Taxine, my boy. Taxine."
"Taxine? Never heard of it."
"I know. Most unusual. Really delightfully unusual! I don't say I'd have spotted it myself if I hadn't had a case only three or four weeks ago. Couple of kids playing dolls' tea-parties - pulled berries off a yew tree and used them for tea."
"Is that what it is? Yew berries?"
"Berries or leaves. Highly poisonous. Taxine, of course, is the alkaloid. Don't think I've heard of a case where it was used deliberately. Really most interesting and unusual ... You've no idea, Neele, how tired one gets of the inevitable weed-killer. Taxine is a real treat. Of course, I may be wrong - don't quote me, for Heaven's sake - but I don't think so. Interesting for you, too, I should think. Varies the routine!" (-- p. 8) |
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Agatha Christie's Poirot
The Third Floor Flat
Series I
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| Quote: | Business in the rainy season is sluggish, which worries the little Belgian P.I. Poirot into a headcold. Captain Hastings to the rescue.
Hastings: Don't worry. I've got something that will cheer you up.
Poirot: Really.
Hastings: Couple of tickets to The Deadly Shroud. You know - the new murder mystery at Wyndhams.
Poirot: Oh, my dear Hastings. That is most kind but how can a stage play be compared to the real life mysteries of Hercule Poirot?
Hastings: Tell you what - I'll wager you 10 quid you can't solve The Deadly Shroud. You on?
Poirot: The money, of course, is of no importance but I find your challenge irresistible. I accept. |
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The Complete Father Brown
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By G.K. Chesterton
| Quote: | "How in blazes do you know all these horrors?" cried Flambeau.
The shadow of a smile crossed the round, simple face of his clerical opponent.
"Oh by being a celibate simpleton, I suppose," he said. "Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hear men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil? But, as a matter of fact, another part of my trade, too, made me sure you weren't a priest."
"What?" asked the thief, almost gaping.
"You attacked reason," said Father Brown. "It's bad theology."
And even as he turned away to collect his property, the three policemen came out from under the twilight trees. Flambeau was an artist and a sportsman. He stepped back and swept Valentin a great bow.
"Do not bow to me, mon ami," said Valentin, with silver clearness. "Let us both bow to our master."
And they both stood an instant uncovered, while the little Essex priest blinked about for his umbrella. (Conclusion of The Blue Cross, p. 23) |
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The Winter Queen
By Boris Akunin
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The Winter Queen
Audio CD
Narrated by Campbell Scott
Another in the top-drawer Erast Fandorin mystery series, which takes place in lush yet wintry Moscow and Petersburg in the 1870s, when a friendly round or two of Inbetween might have led to a duel with the city's greatest marksman - either that or a game of roulette using a gun of his choice. Here's an excerpt from Part Eight, In Which the Jack of Spades Turns Up Most Inopportunely:
| Quote: | | In the smoke-filled hall, the players were seated at six green card tables. There were also observers loitering beside each table. The largest crowd was standing around the table where a high-stakes game was taking place one against one. The host himself was dealing and a sweaty gentleman in a fashionable, overly-tight frock coat was punting. |
We can't say enough about the reader, Campbell Scott, son of Colleen Dewhurst and George C., who must have taught their offspring a thing or two about diction - listen! - and probably acting, too. The back cover says he's been following their tradition, appearing in movies and Broadway stagings of a few Eugene O'Neill plays just like dad but especially mom.
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Sleeping Murder
The Agatha Christie
Mystery Collection
Hardcover
| Quote: | The Royal Clarence was the oldest hotel in the town. It had a mellow bowfronted facade and an old-world atmosphere. It still catered to the type of family who came for a month to the seaside.
Miss Narracott, who presided behind the reception desk, was a full-bosomed lady of forty-seven with an old-fashioned style of hairdressing.
She unbent to Giles whom her accurate eye summed up as "one of our nice people." And Giles, who had a ready tongue and a persuasive way with him when he liked, spun a very good tale. He had a bet on with his wife - about her godmother - and whether she had stayed at the Royal Clarence eighteen years ago. His wife had said that they oucld never settle the dispute because of course all the old registers would be thrown away by this time, but he had said "Nonsense." An esteablishment like the Royal Clarence would keep its registers. They must go back for a hundred years.
"Well, not quite that, Mr. Reed. But we do keep all our old Visitors' Books, as we prefer to call them. ... (From Chapter XV, An Address, p. 98) |
The last Miss Marple story in a long series of first-rate murder mysteries by the master!
| Quote: | Sleeping Murder
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Narrated by British actress Stephanie Cole
Probably the superior recording, but we have yet to lay hands on it. Please check back soon for an updated review. |
| Quote: | Sleeping Murder
BBC Full Cast Dramatization
Audio CD
Although BBC generally lives up to its reputation for quality, these full cast dramatizations are occasionally disappointing - too many competing voices of varying tone or too many musical interludes. We haven't yet heard this one. Please check back soon for our review. |
Sleeping Murder
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With Geraldine McKewan, second only
to the champ, Margaret Rutherford, as the quiet
sparkler Miss Jane Marple
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The Labours of Hercules
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By Agatha Christie
| Quote: | ... 'The Classics aren't a ladder leading to quick success like a modern correspondence course! It's not a man's working hours that are important - it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make. Take yourself now, you're getting on, you'll be wanting to get out of things, to take things easy - what are you going to do then with your leisure hours?'
Poirot was ready with his reply.
'I am going to attend - seriously - to the cultivation of vegetable marrows.'
Dr. Burton was taken aback.
'Vegetable marrows? What d'yer mean? Those great swollen green things that taste of water?'
'Ah," Poirot spoke enthusiastically. 'But that is the whole point of it. They need not taste of water.'
'Oh! I know - sprinkle 'em with cheese, or minced onion or white sauce.'
'No, no - you are in error. It is my idea that the actual flavour of the marrow itself can be improved. It can be given,' he screwed up his eyes, 'a bouquet -'
'Good God, man, it's not a claret.' The word bouquet reminded Dr. Burton of the glass at his elbow. He sipped and savoured. 'Very good wine, this. Very sound. Yes.' His head nodded in approbation. 'But this vegetable marrow business - you're not serious? You don't mean' - he spoke in lively horror - 'that you're actually going to stoop' his hands descended in sympathetic horror on his own plump stomach - 'stoop, and fork dung on the things, and feed 'em with strands of wool dpped in water and all the rest of it?'
... 'Yours aren't the Labours of Hercules,' he said. 'Yours are labours of love. You'll see if I'm not right. Bet you that in twelve months' time you'll still be here, and vegetable marrows will still be' - he shuddered - 'merely marrows.'
Taking leave of his host, Dr Burton left the severe rectangular room.
He passes out of these pages not to return to them. We are concerned only with what he left behind him, which was an Idea. (From the Foreward, pgs. 10-12) |
Two PokerPulse marrow favorites:
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| Quote: | | After washing, coat these marrows whole in a few tablespoons of olive oil with salt, freshly-ground pepper, a clove of two of crushed garlic and a generous sprinkling of fragrant fresh thyme, then roast at 375 F for 35-50 minutes until they're brown-tipped and fragrant. |
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Narrated by British actor Hugh Fraser,
who played Captain Arthur Hastings opposite
Poirot in the successful TV series.
Fraser, who possesses a remarkable vocal range of characters, is among the top three PokerPulse picks for readers of recorded books. The other two are, of course, Jonathan Cecil reading P.G. Wodehouse and the unaparallelled Hamlet, young John Gielgud recently re-mixed on Audio CD. |
| Quote: | Agatha Christie's Poirot
The Complete Collection
DVD
First-rate series and unlike so many excellent but unwatchable British dramas very well recorded. Unfortunately, The Labours of Hercules is not yet among the popular dramatizations. |
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The ring leaders
Bell ringing runs in the blood in the Derbyshire village
of Darley Dale, where all generations and professions
learn the ropes of this ancient pastime
Words by Caroline Atkins
January, 2008
| Quote: | Bells have been sounded throughout the centuries, to celebrate, to mourn and to raise the alarm in times of flood, fire or invasion, but the idea of a complete ring - five bells or more, pulled in sequence - only developed in the mid 17th century. "The art of change-ringing is peculiar to the English and, like most English peculiarities, unintelligible to the rest of the world," Dorothy L. Sayers writes in her 1934 mystery novel, The Nine Tailors, which weaves the intricacies of their music into its dark fenland murder story.
"You don't actually have to be musical," Richard says. But you do need a sense of rhythm, enough of an ear to hear you bell among the others and to be good with numbers. It's not exactly mathematical, just that each bell is represented by a number: eight at St Helen's (so the number of changes possible without repeating a sequence is over 40,000) and up to 16 at other towers, making the permutations even more complex. "Engineers make very good ringers," says one of the team, chatting in a hillside pub after the weekly Wednesday night practice. St Helen's duly has its mining engineer, Neil Hitchens, who lives in Cornwall but rings at Darley Dale when his work brings him this way.
"You need a sense of recklessness," adds Jo Walker, a visitor steward at Haddon Hall (further up the valley in Bakewell) who also works as a gardener. "When you first pull that mass of bell metal (a blend of copper and tin, weighing up to three-quarters of a tonne in this tower) from its standing position, so that it swings in a full circle and back, you just have to go for it and trust your team will keep you safe."
The trick is to be firm but gentle. "When a bell is stiff to get going, it's a bit like having to lug a reluctant animal out of its stall - you have to give it a push," Richard explains. But once the swing of the bell pulls the rope upwards, that's when it's really important to let go of the thick, woven, coloured "sally," or you'll go up with it. Ringing legend echoes with accidental hangings and stranglings (in The Nine Tailors ., one bell kills three men and almost finishes off the aristocratic detective her, Lord Peter Wimsey), but the Darley Dale ringers don't seem too worried.. (-- p. 60) |
The Nine Tailors
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By Dorothy L. Sayers
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| Quote: | The Nine Tailors
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With Ian as Sayers' sleuth aristocrat
Far more terrifying - and bloodily effusive - than one might expect. |
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Playback
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By Raymond Chandler
| Quote: | "Let me tell you two or three things. First off, you're not taking this with normal reactions. You're not icy cool, but you're too cool. No panic, no hysteria, no nothing. You're fatalistic. Next, I heard the entire conversation between you and Mitchell this afternoon. I took those bulbs out" -- I pointed to the wall heater -- "and used a stethoscope against the partitition at the back. What Mitchell had on you was a knowledge of who you were, and that knowledge was something that if published could drive you into another switch of names and another dodge to some other town somewhere. You said you were the luckiest girl in the world because you were alive. Now a man is dead on your balcony, shot with your gun, and the man of course is Mitchell. Right?"
She nodded. "Yes, it's Larry."
"And you didn't kill him, you say. And the cops would hardly believe that even at first, you say. And later on not at all. My guess is that you've been here before."
She was still looking up at me. She came slowly to her feet. Our faces were close, we stared hard into each other's eyes. It didn't mean a thing.
"Half a million dollars is a lot of money, Marlowe. You're not too hard to take. There are places in the world where you and I could have a beautiful life. In one of those tall apartment houses along the ocean front in Rio. I don't know how long it would last, but things can always be arranged, don't you think?" (-- pgs. 54-55) |
Vintage Chandler.
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A G. K. Chesterton Omnibus
Hardcover
Includes the novels, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The
Man Who Was Thursday and The Flying Inn
| Quote: | 'Don't you see we've checkmated each other?' cried Syme. 'I can't tell the police you are an anarchist. You can't tell the anarchists I'm a policeman. I can only watch you, knowing what you are; you can only watch me, knowing what I am. In short, it's a lonely, intellectual duel, my head against yours. I'm a policeman deprived of the help of the police. You, my poor fellow, are an anarchist deprived of the help of that law and organization which is so essential to anarchy. The one solitary difference is in your favour. You are not surrounded by inquisitive policemen; I am surrounded by inquisitive anarchists. I cannot betray you, but I might betray myself. Come, come! wait and see me betray myself. I shall do it so nicely.'
Gregory put the pistol slowly down, still staring at Syme as if he were a sea-monster. (From The Man Who Was Thursday, Chapter III, p. 228) |
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Our Man in Havana
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By Graham Greene
| Quote: | 'Do you believe they intend war eventually?' the Chief asked.
'Your guess is as good as mine.'
'They've become very active in Cuba - apparently with the help of the police. Our man in Havana has had a difficult time. His best agent, as you know, was killed, accidentally of ocurse, on his way to take aerial photographs of the constructions - a very great loss to us. But I would give much more than a man's life for those photographs. As it was, we had given fifteen hundred dollars. They shot at another of our agents in the street and he's taken fright. A third's gone underground. There's a woman too, they interrogated her, in spite of her being the mistress of the Director of Posts and Telegraphs. They have left our man alone so far, perhaps to watch. Anyway he's a canny bird.'
'Surely he must have been a bit careless to lose all those agents?'
'At the beginning we have to expect casualties. They broke his book-code. I'm never happy with these book-codes. There's a German out there who seems to be their biggest operator and an expert at cryptography. Hawthorne warned our man, but you know what these old merchants are like; they have an obstnate loyalty. Perhaps it was worth a few casualties to open his eyes. Cigar?'
'Thanks. Will he be able to start again if he's blown?'
'He has a trick worth two of that. Struck right home into the enemy-camp. Recruited a double agent in the police-headquarters itself.'
'Aren't double agents always a bit - tricky? You never know whether you're getting the fat or the lean.'
'I trust our man to huff him every time,' the Chief said. 'I say huff because they are both great draughts players. Checkers they call it here. As a matter of fact, that's their excuse for contacting each other.' (From Part Four, London Interlude, pgs. 148-150) |
| Quote: | Our Man in Havana
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BBC 4 Full Cast Recording
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| Quote: | Our Man in Havana
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Featuring the great British character actor,
Sir Alec Guinness
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4-50 From Paddington
Hardcover
By Agatha Christie
| Quote: | Mrs. McGillicuddy looked anxiously along the platform. So many passengers and so few porters. Ah, there was one! She hailed him authoritatively.
"Porter! Please take this at once to the Stationmaster's office."
She handed him the envelope, and with it a shilling.
Then, with a sigh, she leaned back. Well, she had done what she could. Her mind lingered with an instant's regret on the shilling... Sixpence would really have been enough...
Her mind went back to the scene she had witnessed. Horrible, quite horrible...She was a strong-nerved woman, but she shivered. Wat a strange - what a fantastic thing to happen to her Elspeth McGillicuddy! If the blind of the carriage had not happened to fly up... But that, of course, was Providence.
Providence had willed that she, Elspeth McGillicuddy, should be a witness of the crime. Her lips set grimly. (-- p. 11) |
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Lord Edgware Dies
Hardcover
By Agatha Christie
Poirot again!
| Quote: | The memory of the public is short. Already the intense interest and excitement aroused by the murder of George Alfred St. Vincent Marsh, fourth Baron Edgware, is a thing past and forgotten. Newer sensations have taken its place.
My friend, Hercule Poirot, was never openly mentioned in connection with the case. This, I may say, was entirely in accordance with his own wishes. He did not choose to appear in it. The credit went elsewhere - and that is how he wished ti to be. Moreover, from Poirot's own peculiar private point of view, the case was one of his failures. He always swears that it was the chance remark of a stranger in the street that put him on the right track.
However that may be, it was his genius that discovered the truth of the affair. But for Hercule Poirot I doubt if the crime would have been brought home to its perpetrator.
I feel therefore that the time has come for me to set down all I know of the affair in black and white. I know the ins and outs of the case thoroughly and I may also mention that I shall be fulfilling the wishes of a very fascinating lady in so doing. (Thus begins b]Chapter I[/b] entitled, A Theatrical Performance) |
Lord Edgware Dies
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Featuring David Suchet as Poirot
Thirteen at Dinner
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Featuring David Suchet as intrepid Inspector Japp
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A Murder Is Announced
Hardcover
By Agatha Christie
| Quote: | She paused triumphantly. Colonel Easterbrook looked at her indulgently but without much interest.
"Murder Game," he said.
"Oh."
"That's all it is. Mind you," he unbent a little, "it can be very good fun if it's well done. But it needs good organizing by someone who knows the ropes. You draw lots. One person's the murderer, nobody knows who. Lights out. Murderer chooses his victim. The victim has to count twenty before he screams. Then the person who's chosen to be the detective takes charge. Questions everybody. Where they were, what they were doing, tries to trip the real fellow up. Yes, it's a good game - if the detective - er - knows something about police work."
"Like you, Archie. You had all those interesting cases to try in your district."
Colonel Easterbrook smiled indulgently and gave his mustache a complacent twirl.
"Yes, Laura," he said. "I daresay I could give them a hint or two." (-- pgs. 14-15) |
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The Thirteen Problems
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By Agatha Christie
| Quote: | "I know, dear," said Miss Marple, "that your books are very clever. But do you think that people are really so unpleasant as you make them out to be?"
"My dear Aunt," said Raymond gently, "keep your beliefs. Heaven forbid that I should in any way shatter them."
"I mean," said Miss Marple, puckering her brow a little as she counted the stitches in her knitting, "that so many people seem to me not to be either bad or good, but simply, you know, very silly."
Mr. Petherick gave his dry little cough again.
"Don't you think, Raymond," he said, "that you attach too much weight to imagination? Imagination is a very dangerous thing, as we lawyers know only too well. To be able to sift evidence impartially, to take the facts and look at them as facts - that seems to me the only logical method of arriving at the truth. I may add that in my experience it is the only one that succeeds."
"Bah!!" cried Joyce, flinging back her black head indignantly. "I bet I could beat you all at this game. I am not only a woman - and say what you like, women have an intuition that is denied to men - I am an artist as well. I see things that you don't. And then, too, as an artist I have knocked about among all sorts and conditions of people. I know life as darling Miss Marple here cannot possibly know it."
"I don't know about that, dear," said Miss Marple. "Very painful and distressing things happen in villages sometimes."
"May I speak?" said Dr. Pender smiling. "It is the fashion nowadays to decry the clergy, I know, but we hear things, we know a side of human character which is a sealed book to the outside world."
"Well," said Joyce, "it seems to me we are a pretty representative gathering. How would it be if we formed a Club? What is to-day? Tuesday? We will call it The Tuesday Night Club. It is to meet every week, and each member in turn has to propound a problem. Some mystery of which they have personal knowledge, and to which, of course, they know the answer. Le me see, how many are we? One, two, three, four, five. We ought really to be six." (From Chapter One, The Tuesday Night Club, p. 12) |
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Narrated by British actress Joan Hickson, who also
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The Little Sister
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By Raymond Chandler
| Quote: | I got a cigarette out and lit it. I offered her one. She didn't want one. I wasn't in any hurry. Time seemed to have lost its grip on me. And almost everything else. I was flat out.
"You're going too fast for me," I said, after a moment. "You didn't know when you went to the Van Nuys that Steelgrave was Weepy Moyer."
"No."
"Then what did you go there for?"
"To buy back those photographs."
"That doesn't check. The photographs didn't mean anything to you then. They were just you and him having lunch."
She stared at me and winked her eyes tight, then opened them wide. "I'm not going to cry," she said. "I said I didn't know. But when he was in jail that time, I had to know there was something about him that he didn't care to have known. I knew he had been in some kind of racket, I guess. But not killing people."
I said: "Uh-huh." I got up and walked around the highbacked chair again. Her eyes traveled slowly to watch me. I leaned over the dead Steelgrave and felt under his arm on the left side. There was a gun there in the holster. I didn't touch it. I went back and sat down opposite her again.
"It's going to cost a lot of money to fix this," I said.
For the first time she smiled. It was a very small smile, but it was a smile. "I don't have a lot of money," she said. "So that's out."
"Oppenheimer has. You're worth millions to him by now."
"He wouldn't chance it. Too many people have their knives into the picture business these days. He'll take his loss and forget it in six months." (-- p-. 201) |
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Narrated by champion Chandler reader, Elliot Gould
There's a Hollywood fortune to be made remaking films based on Chandler's tough-talking detective series! Gould is still the best voice since Humphrey Bogart to give any of the author's famous trenchcoats new life. ESL students trying hard to lose the accent can practise classic American slang emulating Gould. We understand the BBC has another edition narrated by Ed Bishop. We'll give it a listen when we find one. Please check back soon for updates. |
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