Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about friendly guard puppies, ballet dances, Las Vegas showgirls, and Greek tycoons. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2017 movie “Crooked House.”

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

3:54 Enjoying Crooked House the first time

4:22 Beautiful English country house images

7:10 The Leonides Family and there’s something wrong with Josephine

10:52 What makes this novel unique

11:19 Who are the family members?

16:55 Charles and Sophie in Cairo

20:11 Sophie’s problem

23:56 Max’s problem

25:13 What they did right

30:51 What makes Agatha Christie’s characters fascinating

32:43  Observations about Gillian Anderson, Julian Sands, Amanda Abbington, and Christina Hendricks

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about incompetent reporters, incompetent investigators, louche playwrights and Bridgette Bardot lookalikes. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Petits meurtres en famille,” the French television adaptation of “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas.”

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

2:51 Larosiere and Lampion in a different universe

5:33 Nord province, the Hooterville of France?

6:40 How wealthy was the family? Number of servants.

12:34 The servants who matter in the story

13:40 The family members who matter in the story

19:21 The introduction of Inez

21:37 Simon Lee’s 70th birthday and Dr. Eloi

22:58 Madeline the villain you’ll love to hate

26:05 Jewishness and French support for Hitler in 1939

29:00 The aging of the long-distance runner

30:20 The second love triangle

32:39 The theme of missing and abusive fathers

34:24 Murder in ChristieWorld

38:15 The problem of Fake Inez’s happy ending

42:06 The importance of casting

43:03 Louise’s love story

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about incompetent reporters, incompetent investigators, louche playwrights and Bridgette Bardot lookalikes. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Jeux de glaces,” the French television adaptation of “They Do It With Mirrors” in the series “Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie.”

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

0:45 Previous adaptations

4:33 The one major change from previous version (major spoiler here!)

5:12 About the three seasons

7:44 Finally getting into the episode

12:41 Meeting Alice Avril

14:13 A rant about Marlene and Avril

16:16 The first murder

20:06 Mr. American fix-it man

23:07 Denigrating the Mildred Strete character

23:41 Carrie Louise

26:10 Laurence is a TERRIBLE investigator

27:46 Alice is a TERRIBLE investigator

30:19 What about the poisoned chocolates?

33:05 Marlene set up to look like an idiot; secretaries in cinema

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about seductive schoolgirls, coup d-tats, secret daughters, and renegade nuns. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Le chat et les souris,” the French television adaptation of “Cat Among the Pigeons” in the series “Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie.”

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about silk stockings, drunken detectives, feuding families, and burning bums. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Les meurtes ABC,” the French television adaptation of “The ABC Murders” in the series “Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie.”

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

1:12 What is “The Little Murders of Agatha Christie?”

2:19 About the first season

7:32 Charming bits of male nudity

8:53 Starting at the beginning of the episode

11:54 Alexander Bonaparte Cust character

13:46 The second murder

15:19 The police commissioner calls in Duval

18:49 Meet the Calvez family

21:00 The murder investigation

22:56 Duval receives an ABC letter

25:36 Larosiere back on the case

26:43 Larosiere gathers everyone for The Poirot

35:22 Agatha Christie as police procedural

36:05 Larosiere’s cute mannerisms

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about drunken chefs, cold and hot news anchors, ‘60s-style sexism, and dumping dumping one-night stands. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Zero Hour” (L'Heure zero), the French television adaptation of “Towards Zero” by “Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie.”

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

0:54 Three versions of “Towards Zero”

4:47 An overview of the TV series

9:12 Alice tries to break into TV

12:44 Maxim the hot chef

14:35 Bedding and dumping lovers

16:11 Marlene’s revenge plot

20:49 They’re French, and Bill loses the thread

21:23 More murders and a pointless red herring

23:09 Surprisingly funny / Christie as police procedural

25:30 The problem of the drowning victim

26:59 Why Teresa chose this episode

28:43 Why the 1970s didn’t start in 1970; Bill explains who Gary Numan was.

30:18 Bill wonders why didn’t they do a 1940s version?

31:54 Fadeout

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about subdivided chateaus, dolls stuffed up chimneys, drunken priests, and child murders. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “By the Pricking of My Thumbs” the 2005 French movie.

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

3:06 Driving down a sunny dirt road deep in France to visit Aunt Ida

11:29 Changes from the novel

20:50 Where most of the movie takes place

25:00 Two filmed version of “Pricking”

32:03 Tommy and Tuppence in France

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about drones, ghosts, secret cameras, and Sherlock Holmes. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “And Then There Were None,” the 2017 Japanese adaptation.

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

1:02 previous versions we’ve seen

7:26 connection to Sherlock Holmes

11:50 how they modernized the story

15:48 the judge’s goals

18:36 the judge’s mistakes

23:02 Philip Lombard and Vera Claythorne

25:06 a plea to release the movie on streaming.

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about abandoned children, poisonous inhalers, Missing Miss Marple, and wooden-faced police officers. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “The Great Actress Murder Case,” the 2018 Japanese adaptation of “The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side.”

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

2:55 The story itself and a rage for the adopted kids

9:51 And the kids came out reasonably successful

11:42 How Japanese language and culture is expressed

15:19 The Gene Tierney connection

20:30 Another change was to set this up as a police procedural

22:21 About the Lady of Shallott and the title

23:30 A description of the main detective

27:00 Where to find the movie

28:23 Which of the four versions is the best?

32:42 What we’re watching next

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about snooping butlers, thieving in-laws, plumping noodles, and pumpkin cubes. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “The Murder of Kuroido,” the 2018 Fuji TV adaptation of “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.”

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