Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Born on this day – Agatha Christie:


Agatha Christie


Writer

September 15, 1890 – January 12, 1976

Books:

65 Great Tales Of Horror (1981); 4.50 from Paddington / aka What Mrs McGillicuddy Saw (1957); A Caribbean Mystery (1964); A Century of British Mystery and Suspense (2000); A Christmas Tragedy (2013); A Daughter's a Daughter (1952); A Deadly Affair (2022); A Fairy in the Flat (2013); A Fruitful Sunday (2013); A Murder Is Announced (1950); A Pocket Full of Rye (1953); A Pot of Tea (2013); Absent in the Spring (1944); Accident (2013); After the Funeral / aka Funerals Are Fatal (1953); Agatha Christie Crime Pack (2004); Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime (1977); Akhnaton (1973); An Autobiography (1977); And then there were None / aka Ten Little Indians (1939); Appointment with Death (1938); At Bertram's Hotel (1965); At the 'Bells and Motley' (2013); Autumn Chills (2023); Black Coffee (1930); Blindman's Buff (2013); Bodies from the Library (2018); Bodies from the Library 2 (2019); Bodies from the Library 3 (2020); Bound to Talk (2002); By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968); Capital Christie (2025); Cards on the Table (1936); Cards on the Table (1936); Cat Among the Pigeons (1959); Christmas Adventure (2014); Christmas Crimes (1996); Classic Detective Stories From a Suitcase of Suspense (1999); Clues for Miss Marple (1977); Come, Tell Me How You Live (1976); Continental Christie (2026); Continental Crimes (2017); Cornish Harvest (1974); Country Christie (2025); Crooked House (1949); Curtain (1975); Daring Detectives (1969); Dead Man's Folly (1956); Deadlier (2017); Death By Drowning (1932); Death Comes as the End (1944); Death Cruise (1999); Death in the Clouds / aka Death in the Air (1935); Death on the Nile (1937); Death on the Nile (1937); Destination Unknown / aka So Many Steps to Death (1954); Detective Duos (1997); Detective Stories (1998); Detectives and Young Adventurers (2008); Double Sin (2013); Dumb Witness / aka Poirot Loses a Client (1937); Elephants Can Remember (1972); Endless Night (1967); English Country House Murders (1988); Evil Under the Sun (1941); Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction (1938); Finessing the King (2012); Five Little Pigs / aka Murder in Retrospect (1942); Ghosts from the Library (2022); Ghosts That Haunt You (1980); Giant's Bread (1930); Greenshaw's Folly (2013); Hallowe'en Party / aka A Haunting in Venice (1969); Handle with Care (1985); Harlequin's Lane (2013); Have You Got Everything You Want? (2013); Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly (2013); Hercule Poirot: the Complete Short Stories (2008); Hercule Poirot's Christmas / aka A Holiday for Murder / Murder for Christmas (1938); Herstory (2025); Hickory Dickory Dock (1955); How Does Your Garden Grow? (2013); In a Glass Darkly (2013); In the Cool of the Evening (2013); Ingots of Gold (2012); Into the Mummy's Tomb (1989); Jane in Search of a Job (2012); Lady on the Case (1988); Law and Order (1997); Lord Edgware Dies / aka Thirteen at Dinner (1933); Magnolia Blossom (2013); Malice Domestic 9 (2000); Manx Gold (2013); Marple (2022); Masterpieces in Miniature (2005); Midsummer Mysteries (2021); Midwinter Murder (2020); Miss Marple (1985); Miss Marple and Mystery (2008); Miss Marple Tells a Story (2013); Miss Marple's Final Cases (1979); More Murder Most Cozy (1993); Motive v. Opportunity (2012); Mr Eastwood's Adventure (2012); Mrs McGinty's Dead / aka Blood Will Tell (1952); Murder in Mesopotamia (1936); Murder in the Mews (1937); Murder in the Mews / aka Dead Man's Mirror (2014); Murder Intercontinental (1997); Murder Is Easy / aka Easy to Kill (1939); Murder on the Links / After the Funeral Bundle (2022); Murder on the Orient Express / aka Murder in the Calais Coach (1934); Murder on the Railways (1996); Murder to Music (1997); Murderous Schemes (1996); Murders to Die For (2005); Mysterious Railway Stories (1986); Mystery Stories (1996); Mystifying (2008); N or M? (1941); Nemesis (1971); Next to a Dog (2013); Nine Detective Stories (1964); One, Two, Buckle My Shoe / aka An Overdose of Death / The Patriotic Murders (1940); Ordeal by Innocence (1958); Parker Pyne Investigates / aka Mr. Parker Pyne: Detective (1934); Partners in Crime (1929); Passenger to Frankfurt (1970); Peril at End House (1932); Philomel Cottage (2011); Poems / poems (1973); Poirot and the Regatta Mystery (2011); Poirot Investigates (1924); Poirot Investigates / Murder in the Mews Bundle (2022); Poirot Investigates / The Body in the Library (2020); Poirot's Early Cases / aka Hercule Poirot's Early Cases (1974); Postern of Fate (1973); Problem at Pollensa Bay (1992); Problem at Sea (2013); Promotion in the Highest (2013); Realms of Darkness (1985); S.O.S (2013); Sad Cypress (1940); Sanctuary (2011); Senior Sleuths (1996); Seven Deadly Sins (2004); Sing a Song of Sixpence (2013); Sinister Spring (2023); Six Against the Yard (1989); Sleeping Murder (1976); Sleuths of the Century (2000); Sparkling Cyanide / aka Remembered Death (1944); Spider's Web (1956); Star Over Bethlehem (1965); Stories of Horror and Suspense (1977); Stories of the Occult (1978); Strange Jest (2011); Surprise! Surprise! (1983); Swan Song (2013); Taken at the Flood / aka There Is a Tide (1948); Tape Measure Murder (2011); Ten Tales of Detection (1967); The 17th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1981); The 2nd Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1967); The 2nd Pan Book of Horror Stories (1960); The 8th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1972); The ABC Murders (1936); The Actress (2013); The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly (2013); The Adventure of the Cheap Flat (1923); The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960); The Adventure of the Clapham Cook (2013); The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb (1924); The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman (2014); The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger (2012); The Adventure of the 'Western Star' (1924); The Affair of the Pink Pearl (2012); The Ambassador's Boots (2013); The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries (2013); The Big Book of Female Detectives (2018); The Big Four (1927); The Bird with the Broken Wing (2013); The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked Room Mysteries (2014); The Bloodstained Pavement (1966); The Blue Geranium (2013); The Body in the Library (1942); The Burden (1956); The Call of Wings (2013); The Case of the Caretaker (2011); The Case of the City Clerk (2013); The Case of the Discontented Husband (2013); The Case of the Discontented Soldier (2012); The Case of the Distressed Lady (2013); The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife (2012); The Case of the Missing Lady (2011); The Case of the Missing Will (1924); The Case of the Perfect Maid (2011); The Case of the Rich Woman (2013); The Chocolate Box (2014); The Clergyman's Daughter / The Red House (2013); The Clocks (1963); The Cold Embrace (1966); The Coming of Mr Quin (2012); The Companion (2013); The Complete Ariadne Oliver (2005); The Complete Ariadne Oliver: Volume 2 (2005); The Cornish Mystery (2014); The Crackler (2013); The Dead Harlequin (2011); The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim (1923); The Double Clue (2016); The Dream (2011); The Dressmaker's Doll (2013); The Early Years (2007); The Edge (2013); The Edge of the Chair (1968); The Face of Helen (2013); The Floating Admiral (1931); The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1966); The Fourth Man (2013); The Gate of Baghdad (2011); The Gentleman Dressed in Newspaper (2013); The Gipsy (2013); The Girl in the Train (2013); The Golden Ball (1972); The Great Book of Humour (1935); The Great Book of Thrillers (1935); The Harlequin Tea Set (1997); The Herb of Death (2013); The Hollow aka Murder after Hours (1946); The Hound of Death (1933); The Hounds of Hell (1974); The House at Shiraz (2011); The House of Dreams (2013); The House of Lurking Death (2025); The Idol House of Astarte (2012); The Incredible Theft (2013); The Island (2013); The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan (2012); The Kidnapped Prime Minister (2012); The King of Clubs (2012); The Labours of Hercules (1947); The Lamp (2013); The Last Seance (2013); The Lemesurier Inheritance (1923); The Listerdale Mystery (1934); The Lonely God (2013); The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction (2004); The Lost Mine (2014); The Love Detectives (1993); The Mammoth Book of Great Detective Stories (1985); The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936); The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1998); The Man from the Sea (2013); The Man in the Brown Suit (1924); The Man in the Brown Suit / Crooked House (2020); The Man in the Brown Suit / They Came to Baghdad Bundle (2022); The Man in the Mist (2011); The Manhood of Edward Robinson (2012); The Market Basing Mystery (2013); The Mary Westmacott Collection Volume Two (2012); The Million Dollar Bond Robbery (1924); The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1961); The Mousetrap / aka Three Blind Mice (1950); The Mousetrap and Other Plays (1981); The Moving Finger (1942); The Murder at the Vicarage (1930); The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926); The Murder of Roger Ackroyd / The Hollow Bundle (2022); The Murder on the Links (1923); The Murder on the Links / Murder on the Orient Express (2020); The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920); The Mysterious Affair at Styles / Five Little Pigs Bundle (2022); The Mysterious Affair at Styles and the Secret Adversary (1988); The Mysterious Mr Quin (1930); The Mystery Book (1934); The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge (1923); The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest (2013); The Mystery of the Blue Jar (2012); The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928); The Mystery of the Spanish Chest (2011); The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl (2012); The Naughty Donkey (2013); The Oracle at Delphi (2013); The Oxford Book of Detective Stories (2000); The Pale Horse (1961); The Pearl of Price (2013); The Plymouth Express (2012); The Rajah's Emerald (2011); The Red Signal (2011); The Red Signal and Other Stories (2005); The Regatta Mystery (2013); The Road of Dreams / poems (1924); The Rose and the Yew Tree (1948); The Scoop and Behind the Screen (1984); The Second Crime Club Omnibus Volume (1932); The Second Gong (2011); The Secret Adversary (1922); The Secret Adversary / And Then There Were None (2020); The Secret Adversary / N or M? (2022); The Secret of Chimneys (1925); The Secret of Chimneys / A Murder is Announced (2020); The Seven Dials Mystery (1929); The Shadow on the Glass (2012); The Sign in the Sky (2013); The Sittaford Mystery / aka Murder at Hazelmoor (1931); The Soul of the Croupier (2013); The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael (2013); The Submarine Plans (2013); The Sunningdale Mystery (1933); The Third-Floor Flat (2013); The Thirteen Problems / aka The Tuesday Club Murders (1932); The Thumb Mark of St Peter (2012); The Tragedy of Marsdon Manor (2012); The Tuesday Night Club / aka The Solving Six (1927); The Tuesday Night Club and Other Stories (2005); The Unbreakable Alibi (2013); The Underdog (1994); The Unexpected Guest (2008); The Veiled Lady (2014); The Venus Factor (1972); The Voice in the Dark (2013); The Water Bus (2013); The Web She Weaves (1983); The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (2004); The World's End (2013); They Came to Baghdad (1951); They Do It with Mirrors / aka Murder with Mirrors (1952); Third Girl (1966); Three Act Tragedy / aka Murder in Three Acts (1934); Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (2000); Towards Zero (1944); Unfinished Portrait (1934); Verdict (1958); Wasps' Nest (2013); While the Light Lasts (1994 / 2014); Why Didn't They Ask Evans? / aka The Boomerang Clue (1935); Wireless (2013); Witches' Brew (1984); Within a Wall (2013); Yellow Iris (2011).

Born on this day – James Fenimore Cooper:


James Fenimore Cooper


Writer

September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851

Books:

Afloat and Ashore (1844); Lionel Lincoln (1825); Miles Wallingford (1814); Precaution (1820); Satanstoe (1845); The American Democrat (1851); The Crater / aka Mark's Reef (1847); The Deerslayer (1840); The Last of the Mohicans (1826); The Pathfinder (1841); The Pilot (1824); The Pioneers (1823); The Prairie (1824); The Red Rover (1827); The Red-Skins / aka Captain Spike (1846); The Sea Lions (1849); The Spy (1821); The Spy / Lionel Lincoln (2018); The Spy's Bedside Book (1957); The Two Admirals (1842); The Water-Witch (1830); The Wing-and-Wing (1842).

Movies and television:

A Mohawk's Way (1910); A Tale of the Wilderness (1912); Chingachgook, die grosse Schlange (1967); Der letzte der Mohikaner (1956); Fall of the Mohicans (1965); Fireside Theatre (1949); Hawkeye (1994–1995); Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (1957); Hawkeye, the Pathfinder (1973); Last of the Mohicans (1977); Last of the Redmen (1947); Leather Stocking (1909); Leather Stocking: The Deerslayer and Chingachgook (1920); Leather Stocking: The Last of the Mohicans (1920); Leatherstocking (1924); Lederstrumpf (1923); L'ultimo dei Mohicani (2006); Mysteries at the Museum (2017); Novela (1972); Once Upon a Classic (1979); The Deerslayer (1913 / 1943 / 1957 / 1978); The Iroquois Trail (1950); The Last of the Mohicans (1911 / 1920 / 1932 / 1936 / 1971 / 1975 / 1987 / 1992); The Last Tomahawk (1965); The Leatherstocking Tales (1969 / 1984); The Pathfinder (1952 / 1996); The Pioneers (1941); The Prairie (1947 / 1969); The Spy (1914).

Introvert insight:


I could be social or I could read (I'd rather read).

My kinda party.

What if I told you I actually enjoy staying at home?

Your introversion is a gift that doesn't need to be cured or fixed.

My ideal world:


Let's get lost in a world made of books, coffee and rainy days.

Recommended reading - The Chill (1963):


The Chill

By Ross Macdonald.

First published 1963.
Published by Vintage Crime / Black Lizard.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0679768076
ISBN-13: 978-0679768074

Description:

In The Chill a distraught young man hires Archer to track down his runaway bride. But no sooner has he found Dolly Kincaid than Archer finds himself entangled in two murders, one twenty years old, the other so recent that the blood is still wet. What ensues is a detective novel of nerve-racking suspense, desperately believable characters, and one of the most intricate plots ever spun by an American crime writer.

"The American private eye, immortalized by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by MacDonald."
The New York Times Book Review.

"The finest series of detective novels ever written by an American."
– The New York Times.

Barbara Mertz, on writing:


The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.

- Barbara Mertz.

Monday, September 14, 2026

On this day in the Blade Runner universe:


2048: Nowhere to Run

Alternative titles: 2048: No Escape, 2048: Nowhere to Escape, Blade Runner 2048,
directed by Luke Scott,
written by Hampton Fancher, Michael Green and Luke Scott,
released in the United States on September 14, 2017.
Cast: Dave Bautista, Gerard Miller, Bijan Daneshmand, Gaia Ottman, Orion Ben, Adam Savage, Paris Stangl, Björn Freiberg, István Áldott.