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.” Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel. Support Peschel Press! Visit our website to learn about our Complete, Annotated Line of A...
Dec 22, 2022•22 min
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 aud...
Dec 15, 2022•16 min
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...
Dec 07, 2022•36 min
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. Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel. Support Peschel Press! Visit our website to learn about ou...
Nov 28, 2022•34 min
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. Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of Agatha Christie novels annotated by Bill Peschel. Support Peschel Press! Visit our website to learn about our Complete, Annotated Line of A...
Nov 21, 2022•42 min
Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about we’re talking about blues singers, hidden couples, Hollywood scandals and disfiguring faces. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2022 movie “Death on the Nile,” starring Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot. Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel. Support Peschel Press! Visit our website to learn about our Complete, Annotated Line of Agatha Christie novels: https:/...
Nov 14, 2022•40 min
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. Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel. Support Peschel Press! Visit our website to learn about our Complete, Annotated Line of Agatha Christie novels: https://peschelpress.com/the-peschel-press-compl...
Nov 07, 2022•44 min
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. Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel. Support Peschel Press! Visit our website to learn about our Complete, Annotated Line of Agatha Christie novels: https://pes...
Oct 31, 2022•33 min
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. Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel. Support Peschel Press! Visit our website to learn about our Complete, Annotated Line of Agatha Christie novels: h...
Oct 24, 2022•47 min
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. Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel. Support Peschel Press! Visit our website to learn about our Complete, Annotated Line of Agatha Christie novels: https://peschelpress.com/the-peschel-press-...
Oct 17, 2022•41 min
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. Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel. Support Peschel Press! Visit our website to learn about our Complete, Annotated Line of Agatha Christie novels: https://peschelpress.co...
Oct 10, 2022•37 min
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. Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel. Support Peschel Press! Visit our website to learn about our Complete, Annotated Line of Agatha Christie novels: https://peschelpress.co...
Oct 03, 2022•50 min
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. Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel. Support Peschel Press! Visit our website to learn about our Complete, Annotated Line of Agatha Christie novels: https://peschelpress.com/the-pesc...
Sep 26, 2022•41 min
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. Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel. Support Peschel Press! Visit our website to learn about our Complete, Annotated Line of Agatha Christie novels: https://peschelpress.com/the-peschel-press-complete-ann...
Sep 19, 2022•37 min
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. Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel. Support Peschel Press! Visit our website to learn about our Complete, Annotated Line of Agatha Christie novels: https://peschelpress.co...
Sep 19, 2022•35 min
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. Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel. Visit our website to learn about our Complete, Annotated Line of Agatha Christie novels: https://peschelpress.com/the-peschel-press-c...
Sep 06, 2022•36 min
Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about hormonal schoolgirls, hunky gardeners, coup d’tats, and javelin tossing. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2008 Poirot episode “Cat Among the Pigeons,” starring David Suchet as Poirot. Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel. Visit our website to learn about our Complete, Annotated Line of Agatha Christie novels: https://peschelpress.com/the-peschel-press-compl...
Aug 29, 2022•35 min
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. Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel. Visit our website to learn about our Complete, Annotated Line of Agatha Christie novels: https://peschelpress.com/the-peschel-press-complete-annot...
Aug 25, 2022•38 min
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. Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel. Visit our website to learn about our Complete, Annotated Line of Agatha Christie novels: https://peschelpress.com/the-peschel-press-complete-annotated-...
Aug 17, 2022•41 min
Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about oppressed servants, drunken hunks, and nuns. Lots of nuns. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2006 Poirot episode “After the Funeral,” starring David Suchet as Poirot. Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel. Visit our website to learn about our Complete, Annotated Line of Agatha Christie novels: https://peschelpress.com/the-peschel-press-complete-annotated-seri...
Aug 15, 2022•39 min
Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about a sinister collector of rare artifacts, naughty pictures, and the game of bridge. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2006 Poirot episode “Cards on the Table,” starring David Suchet as Poirot. Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel. Visit our website to learn about our Complete, Annotated Line of Agatha Christie novels: https://peschelpress.com/the-peschel-press...
Aug 09, 2022•35 min
Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about poor relations who become wealthy, cheating husbands and wives, powerful American businessmen and a train that is not the Orient Express. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2006 Poirot episode “The Mystery of the Blue Train,” starring David Suchet as Poirot. Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel. https://peschelpress.com/ If you're in the Dover, Delaware area ...
Aug 03, 2022•43 min
Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about cheating husbands, free-spirited artists, inheritance hopes and inadequate men. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2006 Poirot episode “The Hollow,” starring David Suchet as Poirot. Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel. https://peschelpress.com/ If you're in the Dover, Delaware area on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022, come visit us at the Peach Festival in Wyoming (no...
Aug 01, 2022•38 min
Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about cheating husbands, free-spirited artists, inheritance hopes and huge, huge hands. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2004 Poirot episode “The Hollow,” starring David Suchet as Poirot. Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel. https://peschelpress.com/ If you're in the Dover, Delaware area on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022, come visit us at the Peach Festival in Wyoming (...
Aug 01, 2022•39 min
Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about cheating artists, conniving models, and flashbacks and more flashbacks. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2003 "Poirot" episode “Five Little Pigs,” starring David Suchet as Poirot. Affair-hungry artists! Femme fatales on the prowl! Poisonings and hangings! We talk about it all, and why this was an amazing adaptation. Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel. htt...
Jul 25, 2022•29 min
Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss the 2003 made-for-British-TV movie “Sparkling Cyanide,” which mixed Christie with “House of Cards.” Updated for the post-9/11 era, it features a vulgar football club owner; a rising governmental minister having an affair with the tycoon's wife; his star striker dating the tycoon's daughter; and a secret government agency spying on them for the prime minister! With its pro-surveillance state politics, it could have ...
Jul 18, 2022•28 min
Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press watch and review the David Suchet Poirot “Murder in Mesopotamia” (2002). Teresa talks about the differences between the novel and the movie, what the movie missed, how Mrs. Leidner was based on a real person (whose first husband was definitely NOT a spy for Germany), and other missed opportunities. Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel. https://peschelpress.com/ If yo...
Jul 11, 2022•28 min
Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press watch and review the Kenneth Branaugh “Murder on the Orient Express” (2017) starring Sir Kenny, Johnny Depp, Derek Jacobi, Penelope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Leslie Odom Jr., and Michelle Pfeiffer. Teresa talks about how Branaugh misplays Poirot and why the movie gets worse on repeated viewings. Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel. https://peschelpress.com/ If...
Jul 04, 2022•34 min
Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press watch and review the David Suchet “Murder on the Orient Express” (2010) starring Toby Jones, Jessica Chastain, Barbara Hershey and Hugh Bonneville. We delve into issues of faith, redemption, and why Poirot was so grumpy throughout. Sponsored by Peschel Press, the publisher of annotated Agatha Christie novels by Bill Peschel. https://peschelpress.com/ If you're in the Dover, Delaware area on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022, come vis...
Jul 01, 2022•26 min
Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! For our first episode, the sound is a bit rough, but future episodes are better, honest! Teresa Peschel has been reviewing Agatha Christie movies for two years at our Peschel Press site, so creating a podcast talking to her about them is only a natural! We start off her look at Agatha Christie adaptations with “Murder on the Orient Express,” the 2001 made-for-television version starring Alfred Molina, Meredith Baxter, Leslie Caron, and Peter Strauss. Sponsored by P...
Jun 30, 2022•24 min•Ep. 1
