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...Agatha Christie-style smelling salts? If you have a question for Luke about design and stylish living, email him at lukeedward.hall@ft.com....
...Among the great halls of Karnak we were confronted by the most fundamental of questions — are the gods listening, or is the universe indifferent to us? I had no idea....
...In Christie’s case, it was the field hospital hurriedly set up in the town hall of her birthplace, Torquay....
...Architect John McAslan stands in Glasgow’s The Burrell Collection....
...Glasgow’s marvellously refreshed, eclectic Burrell Collection — treasures from Persian carpets to Gothic carvings to Degas, in glassy galleries giving on to parkland — is let down by vapid or historically...
...Look, I have an enormous soft spot for Agatha Christie....
...Indeed haven’t we all read Agatha Christie? But Rashomon is fabulously styled and staged — of course. The genius of Kurosawa is his soaring geometries and vaulting dynamism as an imagist....
...Across the hall is Delia, a shy but resolute young woman who campaigns for birth control and who quietly holds a candle for the chaotic doctor, Sam....
...Although it is commonly known as the place where Agatha Christie wrote Death on the Nile and François Mitterrand fell for the country, the Old Cataract is, still, an underestimated treasure....
...In one Agatha Christie story, Hercule Poirot lunches on steak and kidney pudding at the pub....
...The Girolamini library – a vaulted baroque hall, set in the wing of a monastery – was one of these....
...Burrell went into more detail....
...The ghost of Luna’s grandfather, crotchety Old Man Moon, appears to be walking the corridors of ancestral home Haggard Hall and imprisoning her relatives in different sinister ways....
...eras of urban sprawl: crowded Victorian terraces give way to gracious suburban villas and the sort of art deco apartment buildings that one can imagine in television adaptations of Dorothy L Sayers and Agatha...
...Agatha Christie fused ghost stories and psychological thrillers in her collection The Hound of Death, published in 1933....
...of my non-fiction pile is The Author’s Effects: On Writers’ House Museums by Nicola J Watson, a wonderful-looking exploration of the cult of the author as seen through their homes and objects, not least Agatha...
...Elton flings in so many fraught family divisions, titillating death-mysteries, and plots and complots, that we could be in Stratford-upon-Agatha (Christie)....
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...“Welcome to the Old Bailey,” say the guards as you climb the stone steps of London’s County Hall and make your way to the former council chamber for Witness for the Prosecution....
...One of the highlights is Degas’ first major ballet picture, “The Rehearsal” (circa 1874), showing dancers limbering up in the practice hall under the watchful eye of the ballet master....
...Its crime writing festival has been running for 15 years, and in a suitably evocative location — the Old Swan hotel, where Agatha Christie took refuge under a false name when she strangely “disappeared”...
...The experience began even as the front door opened into a hall painted a vibrant red and lined with a jigsaw of jewel-bright 16th-century Iznik tiles....
...Photographs: London Collection, Bishopsgate Institute; Daily Express; Allford Hall Monaghan Morris...
...An old photo in the hall shows him standing out on the front steps enjoying a glass of wine with a local carriage driver....
...Allen Lane, passing through Exeter station after a weekend visit to Agatha Christie, scours the bookstall for something to read on his journey to London....
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