At the Scene of the Crime: An Interview with John Curran: Part Two

An Interview with John Curran: Part Two

Hello everybody, and welcome back for part two of my interview with John Curran! I posted part one yesterday on this page. Today I’m glad to share the last six videos with you all. In today’s clips you can find out what Mr. Curran thinks about the new version of Murder on the Orient Express, After the Funeral, and whether Christie was forced to change the ending of Taken at the Flood (among other things).

Again, there’s no need to worry about spoilers because I personally interrupt the video if a spoiler is coming up. Hopefully you all enjoy the conclusion to this interview; I know that I had a blast in this discussion and hopefully this sort of conversation can become a semi-regular feature on the blog!

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AnonymousJuly 2, 2012 at 9:01 AM
Hi Patrick,

Thanks for doing these interview videos, the are much appreciated and are inspiring me to get rereading Agatha Christie. Thanks again, Russell
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“The crime, you see, is just to set the stakes. The real message of the detective story is that even in the worst of circumstances, a man or woman can make things right using courage, tenacity, and brainpower. Even though writers depict protagonists who are corrupt or criminal, the characters are at least trying to do something about their lives. That’s especially appealing in these days when so much of so-called serious literature is plotless, hopeless, and, in the eyes of many, pointless. [...]

For a long time, there has been a school of criticism putting down mystery stories as ‘crossword puzzles in prose.’ This is nonsense, as the smallest familiarity with the genre will show. Mysteries range from light comedy to Grand Guignol, with every gradation in between, including that of (ahem) literary art. It happens rarely, to be sure, but it happens just as rarely in those rarefied circles of writing whose practitioners are shooting for art and nothing else. And in the mystery, the misses are still fun to read.

But even if mysteries were crossword puzzled with plotlines, what of it? What kind of plotlines are we talking about? Good versus evil, order versus chaos, illusion versus reality, and the necessity of thought as a tool of survival. I’ll take that.”

—William L. DeAndrea, Introduction to Encyclopedia Mysteriosa

At the Scene of the Crime

An Interview with John Curran: Part Two

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