Even Hank Searls can’t save ‘Jaws: The Revenge’ (1987)
Toothy Tuesday (Book review): Sure, the novelization is better than the movie, but a tale of a voodoo shark remains inherently ridiculous.
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Even Hank Searls can’t save ‘Jaws: The Revenge’ (1987)
‘Death on the Nile’ (1937) a romantic puzzler on river
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): This classic ends up a brain-teaser, but for much of its page count it’s a great portrayal of romance gone bad.
Christie makes plotting seem as easy as ‘A.B.C. (Murders)’ (1936)
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): For the first time, Poirot encounters a serial killer! And it’s no less compelling than Christie’s traditional puzzles.
‘Murder on the Orient Express’ (1934) a stone-cold classic
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Poirot is in his element like never before or since in this staple of Christie’s oeuvre.
‘Third Girl’ (1966) an old-fashioned take on modern times
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Christie (along with Poirot) reluctantly acknowledges that it’s the Sixties, man, in this suspect-loaded mystery.
Lincoln Child’s ‘Chrysalis’ peers into virtual future
Book review: Jeremy Logan plumbs the glorious possibilities of interfacing tech while duly investigating a corporate terror plot.
Murder follows Marple across pond in ‘Caribbean Mystery’ (1964)
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): A rare Agatha Christie yarn that crosses the Atlantic, “A Caribbean Mystery” is otherwise reliably basic.
‘Jaws 2’ novelization (1978) reveals film’s early draft
Toothy Tuesday (Book review): “Jaws 2” eventually got simplified, but an early draft – as captured in the novelization – riffs on the original novel.
‘Pale Horse’ (1961) adds supernatural spin to mystery
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Agatha Christie taps into the supernatural to a greater degree than most of her novels, and with good effect.
Christie schools us in ‘Cat Among the Pigeons’ (1959)
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): A girls school provides a great setting and characters as a string of murders threatens to put class out of session for good.