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In admiration of the greatest and cosiest of fictitious detectives, inspectors, sleuths, and investigators ☕️ 🔍📺 Poirot, Miss Marple, Jessica Fletcher, Morse, Sherlock, and the rest! #detectivefiction #murdermystery #cozycrime #classictv #cosycrime
“A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen.”
(Arthur Conan Doyle “The Hound of the Baskervilles”)
🎨 Sidney Paget (1901)
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Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes from a TV adaptation of "The Hound of the Baskervilles."
"Footprints?"
"Footprints."
"A man’s or a woman's?"
Dr. Mortimer looked strangely at us, and his voice sank almost to a whisper as he answered.
"Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!"
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Hound of the Baskervilles"
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Snubby as Bob, posing with his ball for Agatha Christie's Poirot, The Dumb Witness
One more of Bob, for he is such a good boy ❤️🥎
S6E4 1996
"The dog hunts rabbits. Hercule Poirot hunts murderers."
Agatha Christie: Dumb Witness (1937)
#BookWormSat #dogs
Image: Snubby as Bob and David as Hercule
(The Dog It Was That Died was a 1952 detective novel by E.C.R. Lorac, aka Edith Caroline Rivett.)
Fontana paperback coverart
'What’s that quotation?' went on Superintendent Garroway. "The dog it was that died." I can’t remember where it comes from but –"
…Poirot murmured: 'An intelligent dog. More intelligent perhaps than the police were.'
Agatha Christie: Elephants Can Remember (1972)
#BookWormSat #dogs
Peter Ustinov...one of my favorite character actors of all time.
My art.
Endeavour ❤️
he solves cases through his vast knowledge of history, mythology, classical music, codes and ciphers, and by virtue of his deep melancholia
Torquay's bronze sculpture of Agatha Christie, seated on a bench with a book ("And Then There Were None") in her lap and her beloved dog, Peter, sitting by her feet. Created by local artist Elisabeth Hadley, it is situated on Torquay's harbourside plaza, and was unveiled on April 12, 2025.
‘Mademoiselle,’ I said, ‘it is sometimes difficult for a dog to find a scent, but once he has found it, nothing on earth will make him leave it! That is if he is a good dog! And I, mademoiselle, I, Hercule Poirot, am a very good dog.’
-The Chocolate Box
#AgathaChristie
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A page with a photograph of Miss Arundell lying at the bottom of the stairs. "Unaccountably, she stumbled, tried to recover her balance, failed and went headlong down the stairs."
A page with a photograph of a wire fox terrier, Bob, at the top of the stairs with a ball. "Bob was lying on the top step, the ball between his paws."
Bob was lying on the top step, the ball between his paws.
Agatha Christie: Dumb Witness (1937)
#BookWormSat #dogs
Mark Gatiss as Gabriel Book of Bookish
Ooh, I can feel it!
✨️Saturday!✨️
A collage combining a scan of the page beginning Chapter 5 and coverart from a Bantam Books edition of the novel.
CHAPTER V
"IT ISN'T STRYCHNINE, IS IT?"
Agatha Christie in her debut novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
#BookSky #MorbidMarch
Columbo and Dog on a sunny pier.
What do you say, Dog — ready for a wonderful weekend?
Andrew Lane, whose novels the series is (very loosely!) based on, didn’t include Watson because that wouldn't be canon. But he didn’t include Moriarty either (for the same reason, I guess) — so I would have loved if they'd just written Watson in the series as well.
❤️ !
Drag Race Belgique Season 2 Episode 6 – Le Crime du Drag Express
Mind you, this does not make Belgians seem any more real.
www.crushingkrisis.com/2024/03/drag...
Watson (Edward Hardwicke) and Holmes (Jeremy Brett) examine the stiff (Ronald Lacey) in the Granada production of Sign of Four, 1984
"[The muscles] are in a state of extreme contraction, far exceeding the usual rigor mortis. Coupled with this distortion of the face, this Hippocratic smile, or 'risus sardonicus,' as the old writers called it"
Effects of strychnine in Sign of Four by Conan Doyle (1890)
#BookSky #MorbidMarch
Watching old episodes of Poirot.
Man, Poirot is so cool. I wish Belgians were real
How #ArtDeco period art & #ArtModerne design in #AgathaChristie Suchet TV series (1989-2013) became integral to the world of Poirot *as a whole*: apollo-magazine.com/david-suchet...
It's a cool article on symbiosis that made me realize A/D set design is a BIG part of why I love P & watch/read him
Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub) writing his name on a chalkboard
Keeping it straight
Pauline Moran smiling to the camera as Miss Lemon in Agatha Christie's Poirot
May your day be sweet 🍋
David Suchet, Philip Jackson, and Hugh Fraser
Poirot, Japp, Hastings; surveilling
"One of the greatest mystery story writers of this century." Los Angeles Times DOROTHY L. SAYERS MURDER MUST ADVERTISE A Lord Peter Wimsey novel
Dorothy L. Sayers
Murder Must Advertise
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Miss Marple pruning roses in The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
Angela Lansbury as Miss Marple
On Murder, She Wrote, Jessica Fletcher’s late husband Frank is mentioned numerous times.
He’s actually glimpsed only once in some old newsreel footage during the episode “The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel.”
He’s credited as being played by John Newberg.
Brenda Blethyn as Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope
DCI Vera Stanhope
exhausted, worn down Jessica Fletcher of Murder she wrote, slumped in a red chair.
today
Death on the Nile (1978)
dir: John Guillermin
In watching the prominence of Mycroft in the new Young Sherlock Holmes so far, I remembered I realized recently, in the 80s-90s Jeremy Brett series, Mycroft was played by the Narrator/Criminologist from Rocky Horror Picture Show.
And Ernst Stavro Blofeld. What a career.