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Mrs McGinty's Dead is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1952 [1] and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 3 March the same year. [2] The US edition retailed at $2.50 [1] and the UK edition at nine shillings and sixpence (9/6). [2]
Murder Most Foul is the third of four Miss Marple films made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. [1] Loosely based on the 1952 novel Mrs McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie, it stars Margaret Rutherford as Miss Jane Marple, Ron Moody as the theatre company director H. Driffold Cosgood, Charles Tingwell as Inspector Craddock, and Stringer Davis (Rutherford's husband) as Mr Stringer. [2]
Mrs McGinty's Dead (1952) also published as Blood Will Tell; After the Funeral (1953) also published as Funerals are Fatal; Hickory Dickory Dock (1955) also published as Hickory Dickory Death; Dead Man's Folly (1956) Cat Among the Pigeons (1959) The Clocks (1963) Third Girl (1966) Hallowe'en Party (1969) Elephants Can Remember (1972) Poirot's ...
The character of Superintendent Spence previously appeared in Taken at the Flood, Mrs McGinty's Dead and Hallowe'en Party. The last two of these cases are discussed in Chapter 5 of the novel, along with the case retold in Five Little Pigs. Mr Goby is a recurring character in many of the later Poirot novels.
Superintendent Spence brought to Poirot the case solved in Mrs McGinty's Dead, which they discuss in Chapter 5. The case is recollected by Poirot in Chapter 3 when Poirot recalls Mrs Oliver getting out of a car and "a bag of apples breaking". This is a reference to her second appearance in Mrs McGinty's Dead, Chapter 10.
In The New York Times Book Review for 25 June 1939, Isaac Anderson mentioned by name "Miss Marple Tells a Story" and went on to say that, "Neither this story nor any of the others is comparable to the longer works of Agatha Christie, but that is scarcely to be expected, for the detective story, more perhaps than any other type of fiction, needs continued suspense to hold the reader's interest ...
Sparkling Cyanide is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1945 under the title of Remembered Death [1] and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in the December of the same year under Christie's original title. [2]
Three volumes of the manga adaptation of the television series were released in 2004 and 2005 by NHK Publishing, [1] the publishing division of NHK. The adaptations were written by Yukiyoshi Oohashi ( 大橋志吉 ) (volumes 1 and 3) and Syouji Yonemura ( 米村正二 ) (volume 2), and illustrated by Morihiko Ishikawa ( 石川森彦 ) .