Agatha Christiesque

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1. alternativeAlternative form of Agatha Christie-esque.

   Readers of author and translator Dovalpage will recall her previous mystery, “Death of a Telenovela Star,” also took place aboard a cruise ship, a perfect Agatha Christiesque crucible of suspicion and subversive motivation.

   2021 September 16–22, Amy Boaz, “Revenge of the jilted lover”, in Tempo (Taos News), page 8

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   Death Lends A Hand (ATV, 10.30): Agatha Christiesque title for “Columbo” story that features ex-cowboy Robert Culp (now a superior TV movie villain) and veteran Ray Milland with the shabbily perspicacious Peter Falk as hero.

   1976 February 12, Alan Cookman, “Tonight’s Movies”, in Evening Sentinel, number 34,648, page 2

   At the bar were an Agatha Christiesque assemblage of hotel guests, including some Arab-type Moroccans in djellabas smoking cigarettes from long holders, and Jean Dethier, an architect from the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, wearing an unlikely pink shirt and floral tie.

   1981 March 8, Rose Dosti, “Ancient Wonders Found in Tour of Southern Morocco”, in Los Angeles Times, part IV, page 1