Monday, October 30, 2023

An Agatha Christie cookbook.

Evan Kleiman, host of the Good Food podcast, talks to Karen Pierce, author of Recipes for Murder: 66 Recipes That Celebrate the Mysteries of Agatha Christie (check out the Halloween Murder Mystery Menu).

Monday, October 23, 2023

Upcoming Poe exhibition.

Opening on November 16 at Orlando's City Arts venue is "Edgar Allan Poe: The Exhibit," an art exhibition inspired by the works of Poe. Prizes will be given to four artists.

Monday, October 16, 2023

Sale, McFarland's horror books.

Brian Patrick Duggan's
Horror Dogs
Take 25 percent off horror books during McFarland & Co.'s Halloween sale. Use coupon code HALLOWEEN2023 through Oct 31. 

Joseph Maddrey's
Adapting Stephen King, vol. 2




 

Monday, October 09, 2023

Perry Mason and Della Street: Colleagues or more?

Donald Woods as Perry Mason
and Ann Dvorak as Della Street
in The Case of the Stuttering
Bishop
(1937)
Over on Owlcation, Ronald E. Franklin discusses the burning question: were Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason and Della Street romantically involved?

Monday, October 02, 2023

Mysterious Journey: "Poirot and the Body on the Train."

A new episode of Mysterious Journey, a podcast of short radio plays produced by the Artists' Ensemble Theater (IL), is "Poirot and the Body on the Train" (based on Agatha Christie's "The Plymouth Express"). A body is found under a train seat, and Hercule Poirot is called upon to investigate.