Agatha Christiesque

English

Adjective

Agatha Christiesque (comparative more Agatha Christiesque, superlative most Agatha Christiesque)

1. Alternative form of Agatha Christie-esque.
   • 1976 February 12, Alan Cookman, “Tonight’s Movies”, in Evening Sentinel, number 34,648, page 2:

     Death Lends A Hand (ATV, 10.30): Agatha Christiesque title for “Columbo” story that features ex-cowboy Robert Culp (now a superior TV movie villain) and veteran Ray Milland with the shabbily perspicacious Peter Falk as hero.

   • 1981 March 8, Rose Dosti, “Ancient Wonders Found in Tour of Southern Morocco”, in Los Angeles Times, part IV, page 1:

     At the bar were an Agatha Christiesque assemblage of hotel guests, including some Arab-type Moroccans in djellabas smoking cigarettes from long holders, and Jean Dethier, an architect from the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, wearing an unlikely pink shirt and floral tie.

   • 2021 September 16–22, Amy Boaz, “Revenge of the jilted lover”, in Tempo (Taos News), page 8:

     Readers of author and translator Dovalpage will recall her previous mystery, “Death of a Telenovela Star,” also took place aboard a cruise ship, a perfect Agatha Christiesque crucible of suspicion and subversive motivation.