This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 14, number 4 (Spring 1992). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. Many first-time observers of the ancient art of dowsing have watched in mute fascination as a dowser seeks out — and finds — underground water. This feat the dowser […]
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In 1926 verdween 'The Queen of Crime', Agatha Christie, voor elf dagen van de aardbodem. Het mysterie werd nooit opgelost. Thrillerschrijfster Anita Larkens verdiepte zich in de zaak en schreef er een fictief verhaal over met waarheidsgetrouwe plaatsen en gebeurtenissen. Op Hebban|Crimezone elke twee dagen een nieuw hoofdstuk. Vandaag het eerste van in totaal acht hoofdstukken.
"The Mystery of the Blue Train"
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(Contains spoilers, naturally. Look away if you've not seen the final five in this series, including Curtain: Poirot's Last Case.) The second edition of my zine A Catalogue of Bodies is currently being bound and will be available next week through our online store as well as our stall at Clunes Booktown 2014. Christie fans can pre-order a copy from our store and have the red-spined number posted to you once dry. Harvested from the television adaptations (1989-2013) of Agatha Christie’s stories featuring Hercule Poirot as played by David Suchet, the second edition includes the final five television adaptations recently screened: Elephants Can Remember (1972), The Big Four (1927), The Labours of Hercules (1947), Dead Man’s Folly (1956), and Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case (1975). A further 23 bodies have been added to this catalogue, including death by a falling stage curtain, an electrified chess table, and an explosion. The collection is now complete. {Dr. Ivan Savaranoff, cause of death: electrified chess table, time of death: 0.11 (Scene from The Big Four)} {Jonathan Whalley, cause of death: "knocked silly" and had his throat cut, time of death: 0.22 (Scene from The Big Four)} {Albert Whalley, cause of death: knocked down and killed by a falling curtain, time of death: 1.21 (Scene from The Big Four)} {Police guard as undercover maid, cause of death: (presumably) stabbed to death, time of death: 0.04 (Scene from The Labours of Hercules)} {Lucinda Le Mesurier, cause of death: brutally cut to ribbons (off-screen) for her diamond necklace, time of death: 0.04 (Scene from The Labours of Hercules)} {General Ravenscroft and Lady Ravenscroft (believed to be), cause of death: murdered or part of a suicide pact with revolver on the rocks, time of death: 0.01 (Scene from Elephants Can Remember)} {Lady Margaret Ravenscroft, cause of death: pushed off cliff and made to look like a sleepwalking mishap, time of death: 1.18 (Scene from Elephants Can Remember)} {Marlene Tucker, cause of death: garroted with a length of rope, in the boat-shed, time of death: 0.39 (Scene from Dead Man's Folly)} {Barbara Franklin, cause of death: suicide by overdose, but actually accidentally poisoned herself not her husband by drinking from the wrong cup, time of death: 0.45 (Scene from Curtain:Poirot's Last Case)} {Hercule Poirot, cause of death: natural causes, time of death: 1.28 (Scene from Curtain:Poirot's Last Case)} I have my little prejudices. Anything in the least crooked or disorderly is a torment to me. In my bookcase, I arrange the tallest book at the end; then the next tallest, and so on. My medicine bottles are placed in a neatly graduated row. If your necktie were not correct, I should find it irresistible not to make it straight for you ... Order and method are my gods. For my breakfast, I have only toast which is cut into neat little squares. The eggs — there must be two — they must be identical in size ... I am five feet four inches high. My head, it is egg-shaped and I carry it a little to one side, the left. My eyes, I am told, shine green when I am excited. My boots are a neat patent leather, smart and shiny. My stick is embossed with a gold band. My watch is large and keeps the time exactly. My moustache is the finest in all London ... I own I have a certain disdain for tangible evidence. I prefer just to side here and think - what mon ami Hastings has called 'employing the little grey cells'. I arrange the facts neatly each in its properly place ... (An extract from Poirot's own autobiographical note sent to Agatha Christie's American publishers in 1936) + 'The number is complete,' said Poirot. + A Catalogue of Bodies fully formed. + Album of Paris Crime Scenes (1901–08), attributed to Alphonse Bertillon (1853–1914), in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Alphonse Bertillon, the chief of criminal identification for the Paris police department, developed the mug shot format and other photographic procedures used by police to register criminals. Although the images in this extraordinary album of forensic photographs were made by or under the direction of Bertillon, it was probably assembled by a private investigator or secretary who worked at the Paris prefecture. Photographs of the pale bodies of murder victims are assembled with views of the rooms where the murders took place, close-ups of objects that served as clues, and mug shots of criminals and suspects. Made as part of an archive rather than as art, these postmortem portraits, recorded in the deadpan style of a police report, nonetheless retain an unsettling potency."
I've discovered a fantastic period British TV show on Netflix; Agatha Christie's Poirot. I know nothing of Agatha Christie, other than her name being synonymous with "murder mystery". I love period movies and shows, and the look of Poirot is outstanding. I'm completely caught up in the characters now too, with the quirky Belgian detective…
Low Wray Farm, Cumbria, was used for "Double Sin" (1990)
