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Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about silk stockings, drunken detectives, feuding families, and burning bums. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Les meurtes ABC,” the French television adaptation of “The ABC Murders” in the series “Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie.”
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:12 What is “The Little Murders of Agatha Christie?”
2:19 About the first season
7:32 Charming bits of male nudity
8:53 Starting at the beginning of the episode
11:54 Alexander Bonaparte Cust character
13:46 The second murder
15:19 The police commissioner calls in Duval
18:49 Meet the Calvez family
21:00 The murder investigation
22:56 Duval receives an ABC letter
25:36 Larosiere back on the case
26:43 Larosiere gathers everyone for The Poirot
35:22 Agatha Christie as police procedural
36:05 Larosiere’s cute mannerisms
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Published 09/15/23
Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about a night at the opera, comical assassinations, suitcase nukes, and seaside resorts. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “N or M?” from 2015 starring David Walliams and Jessica Raine as Tommy and Tuppence...
Published 09/11/23