Most readers will know that Agatha Christie died in 1976, having published 12 Miss Marple novels and several collections of Miss Marple stories. Christie also wrote Hercule Poirot mysteries, Tommy and ...

Recently released in paperback, "Marple: Twelve New Mysteries" is a clever homage to Agatha Christie’s legendary amateur detective. You can have your mustachioed Hercules Poirot, with his finicky ...

A number of Agatha Christie novels have been rewritten for modern sensitivities, with racist terms removed and passages of text amended. The news comes weeks after books by Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming ...

If there’s one thing the British do well, it’s mysteries. From the tales of Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to dark detective series like Luther and The Fall, the U.K. seems to serve up an ...

If there’s one surefire way to rile up everyone on the entire political spectrum, it’s sanitizing the canonized works of long-dead authors. Whether it’s for reasons of anti-censorship, preserving ...

Before -- and after -- there was Jessica Fletcher and "Murder, She Wrote," there was Agatha Christie's Jane Marple, who in a dozen murder mysteries published between 1930 and 1976 outwitted even the ...

In this disappointing anthology of authorized pastiches featuring Agatha Christie’s Jane Marple, some contributors fail to play fair with readers by not sharing the clues the elderly amateur sleuth ...

Girls may well just want to have fun, but they also solve crimes. The appearance of female sleuths is nothing new -- remember Miss Marple? -- but they're proliferating in a number of mystery series.

Given the reaction to previous cast changes, some Mystery! fans seem to go through something akin to the various stages of grief whenever a new Jane Marple rides into town — from denial to anger to ...