Delighted to announce that I have just heard my Lyle Revel and Hermione Bradbury short story Old Sins Cast Long Shadows is a finalist for the Silken Rope short story awards!!! Huge thanks to the judges of the Sykehouse International Film and Writers Festival for shortlisting it!!!
Here I am on the tube to Euston Station en route to Buxton in Derbyshire to attend the Northern Crime Writers' Symposium organised by the Crime Writers' Association. On the first night we all traipsed off to the St Moritz restaurant for an excellent dinner. A good time was had by all.
June’s Journey is a hidden object game featuring Hercule Poirot, where players search for hidden object clues. Check out the trailer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkCH...
We're not even halfway through 2026 and the 2027 Hercule Poirot calendar is available for pre-ordering along with a more generic Agatha Christie calendar. Both are being released in August via Amazon and other online retail outlets.
Tom Adams' paperback illustrations for the Fontana editions of At Bertram's Hotel and Miss Marple's Final Cases by Agatha Christie.
Here I am in circa 1990, when I must have been about 28, at Kingswear Railway Station in Devon, England. The terminus retains its period charm to this day and doubled as St. Looe Station in the ITV television series Agatha Christie's Poirot - Peril at End House.
Here I am in London yesterday filming a TOP SECRET documentary at a wonderful period piece of a hotel called The Rookery in Peter's Lane - a few minutes walk from Farringdon tube station. The documentary is expected to air in the autumn.
It was off to Finsbury Park last night to see the Park Theatre's excellent production of The Rat Trap which Noel Coward wrote at the tender age of eighteen. Ewan Miller was first-rate as Keld while his leading lady Olive Lloyd-Kennedy displayed equally impressive acting chops as his wife Gina.
In the 1990s, I had my photograph taken with Agatha Christie's waxwork at Madame Tussaud's in London. I put the same photograph through AI to produce an ancestral portrait - and here's the result. My latest took Agatha Christie's Spotlight on Murder is releasing Nov/Dec this year.
The latest news on the Agatha Christie front is that the star of ITV's Poirot is returning to the small screen to present a new documentary series called Mysteries on the Nile with Sir David Suchet. Produced by Pernel Media, filming is expected to begin in the spring of 2026.
Here are some pics from my visit to Egypt in January 1999. The pyramids of Giza are situated on the southwestern edge of Cairo which suffers heavy air pollution and may explain why the sky is never as blue as it is when it is seen in advertisements.
Pen and Sword have sent me the first draft of the cover for my new book Agatha Christie's Spotlight on Murder - this is the follow up to my ALCS Gold Dagger nominated Secrets from the Agatha Christie Archives. Agatha Christie's Spotlight on Murder will be published in the second half of 2026.
Here is Bob Monkhouse presenting me with my winner's cheque for correcting answering all questions on Agatha Christie's 66 full-length novels on The $64,000 Question. Filmed in Feb 1992 and finally shown on ITV in Aug 1993. The other picture is of me soon after in the grounds of Warwick Castle.
Marci Kay Monson has taken it upon herself to retell The Mystery of the Blue Train in a 32 page colour book for children aged 4 - 8. It is the second book in the Mini Mysteries series - the first being The Mysterious Affair at Styles.
I'm currently one hundred pages into editing my latest murder mystery which hopefully will be published within the next 18 months. Here I am in 1999 with Agatha Christie's waxwork at Madame Tussauds in London
Window shop dressing!
Two excellent Christies with equally excellent cover illustrations by the late great Tom Adams. He freely 'burrowed' items from real life - the lips in Taken at the Flood belong to Marilyn Monroe.
What does Agatha Christie have in common with Robert Stigwood, the Australian-born British-resident music entrepreneur, film producer, and impresario? He once invited her to his latest theatrical production Pippin. He also managed the Bee Gees and produced Grease and Saturday Night Fever.
Click here to find out about the new Jonathan Creek mystery The Phantom of the Acropolis. www.geektown.co.uk/2025/12/09/j...
On 17 December Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed (wife of President Abdul Latif Rashid) visited the house in Baghdad where Agatha Christie once lived with her husband, archaeologist Max Mallowan. She stressed the importance of restoring the house and converting it into a museum. Let's hope this happens.
If you're looking for an exciting elimination thriller for Christmas, MURDER ON LONDON UNDERGROUND is your ticket. Will Lyle Revel and Hermione Bradbury expose a terrorist group called Vortex by Christmas Eve or will the body count spiral out of control...?
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The 2017 film version of Murder on the Orient Express earned back its $55 million dollar budget by accruing $352.8 million dollars at the box office. I refer to it in my new book Agatha Christie's Spotlight on Murder which is being published around November next year.
The 2027 calendar is available to purchase from Amazon from 20 August 2026. No date yet for Poirot. The 2026 from Etsy.com. Meanwhile, I have been submitting the pictorial layout and captions to my publishers for inclusion in my new book AGATHA CHRISTIE'S SPOTLIGHT ON MURDER - releasing late 2026.
Hark the Herald Angels Sing! It was off to the first Christmas party of the season last night held by the Crime Writers Association near MI6. Here I am with some old pals and new.
Thank you to Readingfortheseasons for this great review:
'Jared Cade does a fantastic job of thoroughly investigating the incident, and I found his account incredibly insightful. The book reads like a real-life thriller—I genuinely couldn’t put it down... I highly recommend it to any Christie fan.'
David Suchet's latest venture sees him narrating seven ghost stories from the pen of Charles Dickens. The series debuts with a two part episode of A Christmas Carol. This will be followed each week with the release of a new story. Available free on BBC Sounds. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Agatha Christie's legendary play The Mousetrap is now enjoying its 74th year in London's West End. At Victoria Station, the new poster designed to promote it conveys a decidedly 'jolly hockey sticks' atmosphere no doubt intended to convey it is suitable entertainment for the entire family.
Got up yesterday at six o'clock and took myself off to Oxford to promote my Lyle Revel and Hermione Bradbury mystery series. The weather in London was wet and dismal so it was gratifying to see the sky had cleared by the time I reached Oxford! Thank you to everyone who bought copies of my books.
