Agatha Christie, She Watched

Warning: Spoiler-Free for the first 10 minutes; spoiler-heavy review afterwards! Teresa and Bill Peschel are talking about mysterious mediums, a wise child, post-war traumas, and water in the basement, a LOT of water in the basement. It’s “A Haunting in Venice,” the 2023 Hercule Poirot movie starring Sir Kenneth Branaugh in his third outing as Poirot and Tiny Fey as Ariadne Oliver. 

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction SPOILER-FREE ZONE

10:07 SPOILER ZONE BEGINS with the “Nemesis” connection

12:32 Poirot in retirement

14:56 Incidents that pay off later in the movie

19:12 A motif borrowed (from “Peril at End House” which I forgot to mention)

25:16 Tina Fey as Ariadne Oliver: Hit or miss?

28:29 A deeply felt movie

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about a night at the opera, comical assassinations, suitcase nukes, and seaside resorts. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “N or M?” from 2015 starring David Walliams and Jessica Raine as Tommy and Tuppence Beresford.

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

6:18 Teresa speculates about the Tommy and Tuppence story arc

14:41 An overview of the story

18:13 Shenanigans right out of “I Love Lucy”

21:36 The guests at the Sans Souci

26:30 More missed opportunities

32:20 The problem with casting

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about queen bees, Soho whorehouses, sugar millionaires, and Commie infiltration. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “The Secret Adversary” from 2015 starring David Walliams and Jessica Raine as Tommy and Tuppence Beresford.

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

6:30 A change in era

8:52 Bad beekeeping

14:48 Tommy attempts to join the intelligence community

16:18 The fake sugar millionaire and his sugar cookie

19:21 The deadly assignation and an adult Albert

23:52 The missed opportunities for a good story

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about Egyptian queens, gossip kings, snooping party guests, and adoptions gone wrong. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side” from 2010 starring Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple and Joanna Lumley as Dolly Bantry.

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

6:06 ITV’s reputation for Christie adaptations

9:35 The Downton Abbey connection

13:04 After failing to remember Christian Bale’s name

18:56 The (lack of) emotional intelligence of Marina Gregg

22:31 Joanna Lumley as Dolly Bantry

28:02 Summing up

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about scarlet pimpernels, Belgian refugees, blown marriage proposals, and spill vases. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “The Mysterious Affair at Styles,” from the Poirot series starring David Suchet.

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

5:02 The time this episode is set

8:49 Explaining the scarlet pimpernel joke

13:32 The story opens with Hastings

16:35 Coffee before bedtime, are you crazy?

17:15 Hastings goes to Styles

19:56 Why John Inglethorpe hates the interloper

24:48 The link between “Styles” and “Death on the Nile” and “Roger Ackroyd”

31:48 Poirot investigates and his wonderful toys

35:44 The importance of the Land Girls

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about sleazy directors, pompous playwrights, alcoholic detectives and a murderous Agatha Christie. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “See How They Run,” a meta parody of the production of “The Mousetrap” starring Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan.

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

2:31 Christie’s future as a fictional character

5:02 What is a meta movie?

8:11 Adrien Brody at the heart of the movie

15:03 Inspector Stoppard and Constable Stalker play dominant roles

18:56 Riddled with Easter eggs

22:42 Stalker sends Stoppard to dreamland

25:26 A movie in which you want to pay attention

27:36 Dealing with mixed-race casting

30:44 Agatha’s role at the climax

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about staged accidents, movable plasters, carnival rides, and cross-dressing heroines. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “The Blue Geranium,” a Miss Marple episode starring Julia McKenzie.

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

4:40 Julia Mackenzie does not do dithery

9:04 The relationship between the sisters

12:02 Why don’t these couples have children?

12:55 The source of Mary’s anger

13:55 The source of the doctor’s anger

16:05 “Mary is absolutely toxic”

17:55 The Miss Marple motif

22:20 George Pritchard as the thread uniting the story

27:56 What Teresa would have added to the story

30:00 The blue geranium clue

32:00 Was this a top 10 episode?

34:26 The afterlife of Agatha Christie and Jane Austen

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about creepy flashbacks, rock climbing, old-fashioned tugboats, and the workings of fate. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss Desyat Negrityat, the 1987 Soviet version of “Ten Little Indians.”

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

2:03 A brief history of the movie versions

6:04 Teresa’s opinion of the movie

7:07 Taking it from the top

13:17 How to tell Blore and Lombard apart

18:43 How the judge mislead everyone away from the truth

22:11 Ghostly hauntings make this a psychological thriller

33:10 Is it worthwhile watching 10 adaptations?

36:34 Bill gets an idea for a nonfiction book

40:53 Which is the best version?

45:17 Next time: “Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?” with Hugh Laurie!

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about strange visions, helpful assistants, seaside comedy shows, and magical summers. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Sleeping Murder,” the 2006 episode of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple starring Geraldine McEwan.

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

7:57 Getting into Sleeping Murder

16:30 Who are the Funnybones and why were they added?

19:00 What’s the problem with the Indian police?

25:43 The fatal announcement in the Times

31:00 Creepy Dr. Kennedy

33:34 That memorable summer for the Funnybones

37:10 A parallel between Dickie’s situation and “They Were Ten”

38:56 Happy families and concluding thoughts

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review!

We’re serious.

Don’t listen if you want to read “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” first.

This week, we’re talking about endless rain, morose Russians, Orson Welles, and the golden age of cruising. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Poirot’s Failure,” the 2002 Russian adaptation of “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.”

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

3:45 How Agatha fooled you from the first page

5:53 Almost five hours long!

6:42 A most un-English setting

11:14 Dr. Sheppard longs to travel

13:58 How Caroline Sheppard was handled

17:30 Comic elements in the episode

22:26 Watching the movie when you know the secret

24:46 The tragedy of Caroline Sheppard

28:19 Sheppard’s choice

31:12 The longing of Hector Blunt and weakness of Ralph Paton

34:31 The funny mother-in-law

35:19 Wrapping up

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about abusive husbands, musical numbers, young lovers, and comic butlers. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Mist” (Dhund) the 1975 Bollywood adaptation of “The Unexpected Guest.”

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

2:12 Did incorporating music into the movie work?

6:20 The unexpected guest arrives

11:02 Getting the characters straight

11:27 An unexpected appearance by Isaac Hayes

13:41 The Indian police arrive

19:13 The cultural relevance of a nude shower scene

24:16 The trial of the attorney for murder

30:24 Murder as a way of determining someone’s fate

36:01 The value of foreign movies

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about sleazy gangsters, musical numbers, young lovers, and comic butlers. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Unknown” (Gumnaan) the 1965 Bollywood adaptation of “And Then There Were None,” with an all-star Indian cast.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about sleazy Argentinians, ballroom dancers, ambitious Girl Guides, and old fools. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “The Body in the Library” the 2004 episode from Agatha Christie’s Marple starring Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple.

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

3:48 Let’s get into the story and not rant about the ending yet

7:47 What Jane Marple as a woman recognized that the male detectives did not

13:16 How Cousin Ruby was lured to Eastbourne

18:16 The class divide in Agatha Christie

22:25 Jumping to the climax and why it fails

30:15 Why the novel ending was better

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about crusading prosecutors, aging courtesans, murderous villains and strangers on a train. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the “Murder on the Orient Express” episode from “Checkmate” the Chinese TV series that debuted this year.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about weird wills, Catholic ballet dancers, panting painters, and spying servants. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 1987 “4.50 from Paddington,” starring Joan Hickson as Miss Marple.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about refugees, Communists, rustic pig farmers, and coffee. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 1985 “A Murder Is Announced,” starring Joan Hickson as Miss Marple.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about nursery governesses, patient attorneys, foreign doctors, and PP letters. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 1985 “The Moving Finger,” starring Joan Hickson as Miss Marple.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about betrayed soldiers, betrayed lovers, betrayed immigrants, and betrayed children. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss Ils étaient dix, “They Were Ten,” the 2020 French miniseries version of “And Then There Were None”

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

4:25 A major difference between this version and previous versions

8:19 The roll call of characters: Eddy

15:41: Eve the policewoman

17:06 The crime of Gilles the solar panel salesman

19:18 Nelly Nasib, the good time girl and betrayer

21:20 Victoria the surgeon

24:00 Meet Xavier, the jealous soldier

26:18 Meet Malick, the NGO lawyer

34:11 Eve’s story of universal eeeeeeevil

38:00 Was Agatha Christie acting as an Old Testament god?

45:41 Agatha Christie inspired the slasher flick

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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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about horrible mothers, infantile children, bus tours and pratfalls. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Promise of Death,” the 2020 Japanese TV adaptation of “Appointment with Death.”

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about repressed memories, seaside homes, shipboard romances, and Jacobean revenge tragedies. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Sleeping Murder,” the 2005 episode from the Japanese anime “Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple.”

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about adventurous aviators, chocolate addicts, Babylonian spells, and ducks. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “The Mystery of End House,” the 2004 episode from the Japanese anime “Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple.”

Apologies here for the varying sound quality and the microphone thumps. I upped the audibility setting on Voicemeeter and it caused the sound to drop out. I trimmed out as much of the bad audio as I could, but you’ll still hear imperfections.

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about risque subtitles, manuscript theft, secret agents, and tax evasion. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Agatha and the Midnight Murders” the 2020 movie and third of a series starring Christie as a fictional character.

Apologies here for the varying sound quality and the microphone thumps. Later, I discovered that upping the audibility setting on Voicemeeter caused the sound to drop out. I trimmed out as much of the bad audio as I could, but you’ll still hear imperfections.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about oppressed  women, exploited nations, stolen artifacts, and hot male archaeologists.  Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Agatha and the  Curse of Ishtar” the 2019 movie giving an alternate history of  Christie’s meeting and courtship with her second husband, Max Mallowan.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about abusive fathers, cross-dressing lawyers, unauthorized fiction, and designing golf courses. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Agatha and the Truth of Murder” the 2018 movie giving an alternate history of Christie’s 11-day disappearance.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about  emasculating mothers, feckless fathers, bad seed children, and the Bomb.  Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2018 movie  “Ordeal by Innocence,” starring Bill Nighy.
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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about  traveling salesmen, boarding houses with benefits, murder parties and dangerous backgammon. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2018 movie “The ABC Murders,” starring John Malkovich as Hercule Poirot.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about industrial fog, police brutality, old women and young lovers, and a bloodstained pussycat. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2016 movie “The Witness for the Prosecution,” starring Toby Jones and Kim Cattrall.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about deconstructing doctors, disobedient daughters, and dying detectives. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2013 Poirot episode “Curtain,” starring David Suchet as Poirot.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about master criminals, conniving sisters, gullible young men, and a cute pug. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2013 Poirot episode “The Labours of Hercules,” starring David Suchet as Poirot.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about international conspiracies, ambitious actors, sinister Chinamen, and fake funerals. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2013 Poirot episode “The Big Four,” starring David Suchet as Poirot.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about psychiatrists, pianists, French au pairs and the Seven Sisters. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2013 Poirot episode “Elephants Can Remember,” starring David Suchet as Poirot.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about time, traitors, betrayers, and lots and lots of cats. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2011 Poirot episode “The Clocks,” starring David Suchet as Poirot.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about wandering witches, flaming raisins, suspicious topiary, and a lot of drownings. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2010 Poirot episode “Hallowe’en Party,” starring David Suchet as Poirot.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about peacocking painters, randy roommates, meddling mystery writers, and sinister ice cream. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2008 Poirot episode “Third Girl,” starring David Suchet as Poirot.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about feral playwrights, inquiring reporters, and deadly sugar hammers. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2008 Poirot episode “Mrs. McGinty’s Dead,” starring David Suchet as Poirot.

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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about gas explosions, missing explorers, greed, and surly Irishmen. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2006 Poirot episode “Taken at the Flood,” starring David Suchet as Poirot.

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