Agatha Christie's famed detective, Hercule Poirot, will make a surprise U.S. reappearance in Strand Magazine's tenth anniversary issue, to be published next week. This Reuters November 10, 2009 announcement followed closely upon Strand's mention of a surprise in store for for its readers of the magazine's upcoming issue. Poirot solved what Christie intended to be his last case in her 1975 title Curtain.
Strand Magazine's Summer 2009 issue
The new Christie publication, a 5,000-word short story entitled "The Incident of the Dog's Ball," was discovered in the home of Christie's daughter in 2004. British readers saw an earlier September 2009 release of the story.
Reuters quotes Strand editor Andrew Gulli as saying of the new title, "It's a typical Agatha Christie whodunnit," and that it is full of surprises.
Strand Magazine, published quarterly, debuted in the United States in December 1998. It bills itself as the "reincarnation" the famed British periodical of the same name that ran from January 1881 through March 1950 and contained the first Sherlock Holmes short stories.
Strand Magazine includes short stories, articles, interviews and book reviews in its contents. Its most recent Summer 2009 issue contained short stories by Graham Greene, Andrew Vachss, Tamar Myers, Gillian Linscott and Anthony Horowitz; interviews with Michael Connelly and Ray Bradbury; a profile of John le Carré’s George Smiley character; and a review of the nominees for The Strand Magazine Critics Award.
Like Agatha Christie's Curtain, Ruth Rendell's The Monster in the Box (October 2009) marked the end of the career the protagonist of her only detective series, Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford. David Lehane, however, has announced that he will revive the detective duo of Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro from the series he had declared finished after the publication of Prayers for Rain (1999). The links below provide access to these stories.
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