anyone like these?
I do. i have the complete set and re-read several a week. My favourite at the moment is 'Cat Amongst The Pigeons', but my favourite changes, have just had a phase on reading Crooked House, before then Towards Zero and And Then There Were None. Dammit, I like them all!!!!!
I almost never read books from other crime writers though, even thiose writing similar stories within the same timescale- totally uninterested. The modern ones just seem so... horrible and the old fashioned ones just not as captivating!! (or indeed interesting at all... lmao...)
Always LOVED Poirot. :grin:
Never liked Miss Marple. :?
Am a big Sherlock Holmes fan, too. Can re-read (and re-watch the Jeremy Brett series) over and over and over.... :wink:
I have the complete works of Christie, and the complete Holmes stories.
Modern stuff is rubbish, even the popular Harry Potter stories.
*ducks for cover*
I watched about ten minutes of a Harry Potter film and found the story so obscure as to be meaningless
I re-read Sherlock Holmes quite regularly, and know many of the stories like old friends. I've always found The Speckled Band the most frightening, the venomous snake slithering through the ventilator and down the draw-cord onto the bed, which, as Holmes observes, is screwed to the floor.
My favourite Agatha Christie is 4.50 from Paddington. I especially enjoyed Joan Hickson's portrayal of Miss Marple in the 1987 BBC film of the book, which sticks more closely to the original plot and character than the earlier Margaret Rutherford version.
Stella
I am a huge fan of Margaret Rutherford, so I'm biased towards anything with her in it.
Also for me, Basil Rathbone IS Holmes. :smile:
Oh I do like Margaret Rutherford very much, Amy. Indeed, I think I prefer her to Joan Hickson, only the Hickson Miss Marple adaptations follow the storylines of the novels more closely.
My favourite Holmes actor used to be Douglas Wilmer. A 1964 BBC production of The Speckled Band was followed by a series of 12 adaptations by David Goddard in 1965. Starring Douglas Wilmer, an honorary member of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, and Nigel Stock, who stayed on to play opposite Peter Cushing when Wilmer left, the series is considered to be one of the best and The Times noted that Wilmer bore an "uncanny resemblance" to the illustrations by Sydney Paget.
More recently I've got used to seeing Jeremy Brett playing Holmes, and think him rather good.
Stella
Did you see Rutherford in Miranda? That was very fun.
Stella said "My favourite Agatha Christie is 4.50 from Paddington. I especially enjoyed Joan Hickson's portrayal of Miss Marple in the 1987 BBC film of the book, which sticks more closely to the original plot and character than the earlier Margaret Rutherford version."
It seems that film is on tomorrow, christmas eve, on BBC2 at 3.25pm.
Oh dear me, I shan't be able to see it, as I am going to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with my friend Tanya. We're having an organic free range Aylesbury Duck for Christmas dinner, which I ordered from the poulterers at the end of November. Tanya is going to cook it using a recipe called "Slow Roast Duck."
It will be the first Christmas I have not spent alone for fifteen years.
Stella
Maybe she has a tv and you can watch it there?
Either way, I hope you have really lovely time Stella. :grin: