Murder on the Links began with news from France, a wife debunked, who claimed intruders tied her up and murdered her husband.

) There are also numerous instances where the killer is not brought to justice in the legal sense but instead dies ( death usually being presented as a more ' sympathetic ' outcome ), for example Death Comes as the End, And Then There Were None, Death on the Nile, Dumb Witness, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Crooked House, Appointment with Death, The Hollow, Nemesis, Cat Among the Pigeons, and The Secret Adversary.

In the Middle East he solved the cases of Death on the Nile, and Murder in Mesopotamia with ease and even survived An Appointment with Death.

Hercule Poirot became famous with the publication, in 1926, of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, whose surprising solution proved controversial.

# They Do It with Mirrors, or Murder with Mirrors ( 1952 )

American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

American stage and screen actress Helen Hayes portrayed Miss Marple in two American made-for-TV movies, both for CBS: A Caribbean Mystery ( 1983 ) and Murder with Mirrors ( 1984 ).

These films should not be confused with comedic cult movies like The Toxic Avenger, Bad Taste, Army of Darkness, Murder By Death, Spaceballs, and the films of John Waters, which purposely utilize elements from films " so bad they're good " for comedic effect.

Similarly, TV heroine Jessica Fletcher of Murder, She Wrote is confronted with bodies wherever she goes, but over the years corpses have also piled up in the streets of Cabot Cove, Maine, where she lives.

In 2010, Dirk starred in Prescription: Murder playing Lieutenant Columbo along with Patrick Ryecart and George Telfer.

* A Slight Case of Murder ( with Howard Lindsay, 1940 )

* A Slight Case of Murder ( 1938 ) with Edward G. Robinson — remade in 1953 as Stop, You're Killing Me with Broderick Crawford and Claire Trevor

* A Slight Case of Murder ( 1935 ) co-written for Broadway with Howard Lindsay

The iconic noir counterpart to the femme fatale, the private eye, came to the fore in films such as The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), with Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade, and Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ), with Dick Powell as Philip Marlowe.

In addition to the aforementioned, other directors associated with top-of-the-bill Hollywood film noirs include Edward Dmytryk ( Murder, My Sweet, Crossfire )— the first important noir director to fall prey to the industry blacklist — as well as Henry Hathaway ( The Dark Corner, Kiss of Death ) and John Farrow ( The Big Clock, Night Has a Thousand Eyes ).

He made films like Racket Busters, San Quentin, and You Can't Get Away with Murder.

* 1999: Between the Legs Tour ( with Powerman 5000, Professional Murder Music )

For many years the amps were nicknamed " No Remorse ", " Killer " ( left side amp ) or " Murder One " ( right side amp ) with appropriate nameplates.

Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide ( such as manslaughter ).

More recently, the genre has been revived with such films as Mayhem Motel ( 2001 ), Murder Inn ( 2005 ), Vacancy ( 2007 ), and its direct-to-video prequel, Vacancy 2: The First Cut ( 2009 ).

In 1984 they followed the largely synthesised single " Thieves Like Us " with the heavy guitar-drum-bass rumble of " Murder ", a not-too-distant cousin of " Ecstasy " from the Power, Corruption & Lies album.

One such site featured in her books is the temple site of Abu Simbel in her book Death on the Nile, as well as the great detail in which she describes life at the dig site in her book Murder in Mesopotamia.

The large amount of travel done by Christie and Mallowan has not only made for a great writing theme, as shown in her famous novel: The Murder on the Orient Express, but also tied into the idea of archaeology as an adventure that has become so important in today ’ s popular culture as described by Cornelius Holtorf in his book Archaeology is a Brand.

Likewise, most Agatha Christie books ( Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None being the exceptions ) cause Cardassians great difficulty, as, whilst the idea that a high-ranking person is killed in mysterious circumstances appeals, they cannot understand why only one person is guilty.

** Murder committed on the property of a public or private school, at an activity sponsored by a public or private school or on a school bus while the bus was engaged in its official duties by a person who intended to create a great risk of death or substantial bodily harm to more than one person by means of a weapon, device or course of action that would normally be hazardous to the lives of more than one person.

Repeal it then, Gentlemen ; let it be expung ’ d for ever from your Books: And on the other hand, take into your wise Consideration, the great and growing Number of Batchelors in the Country, many of whom, from the mean Fear of the Expence of a Family, have never sincerely and honourably Courted a Woman in their Lives ; and by their Manner of Living, leave unproduced ( which I think is little better than Murder ) Hundreds of their Posterity to the Thousandth Generation.

A further single-" Mice In The Presence Of The Lion / Serve Tea Then Murder " ( Music of Life, 1991 )-came out to great acclaim, but shortly afterwards the group decided to go their separate ways.

The novelist Raymond Chandler criticised her in his essay, " The Simple Art of Murder ", and the American literary critic Edmund Wilson was dismissive of Christie and the detective fiction genre generally in his New Yorker essay, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

: Christie ’ s Murder in Mesopotamia is the most archaeologically influenced of all her novels as it is set in the Middle East at an archaeological dig site and associated expedition house.

In the 1986 TV play, Murder by the Book, Christie herself ( Dame Peggy Ashcroft ) murdered one of her fictional-turned-real characters, Poirot.

Christie also used material from her fictional creation, spinster Caroline Sheppard, who appeared in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

Christie wrote a concluding novel to her Marple series, Sleeping Murder, in 1940.

* In episode 4, season 1 of " Family Guy ", " Mind Over Murder ", Lois Griffin is rocking a sleeping and teething Stewie Griffin while her piano student plays a lullaby.

Although Kelly won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for best actress for her performances in her three big movie roles of 1954 ( Rear Window, Dial M For Murder, and The Country Girl ), she and Garland both received Golden Globe Awards for their respective performances.

Aaron laments that Tamora has now outdone him in evil ; " She has out-done me in my own Art –/ Out-done me in Murder – Kille'd her own Child ./ Give it me – I ’ le eat it.

With her health stable, she traveled to England to film the Agatha Christie mystery Murder with Mirrors ( 1985 ).

* Hearst co-authored a novel with Cordelia Frances Biddle titled Murder at San Simeon ( Scribner, 1996 ), based upon the death of Thomas Ince on her grandfather's yacht.

A Perfect Murder is a 1998 remake directed by Andrew Davis and starring Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow in which the characters of Halliday and Swann are combined, with the husband ( Douglas ) hiring, or rather coercing, his wife's lover ( played by Viggo Mortensen ) into a scheme to kill her.

* In Steven Saylor's novel A Murder on the Appian Way, part of the Roma Sub Rosa series, Gordianus tries to insult someone by comparing her to Briseis, but the woman fails to understand the allusion and is therefore not insulted.

Her role as the grand Russian princess in a huge commercial success, Murder on the Orient Express ( 1974 ), won her international acclaim and the Evening Standard British Film Award as Best Actress.

Throughout her career Plimpton has appeared in many feature films including critically successful films Running on Empty ( 1988 ), Parenthood ( 1989 ), Eye of God ( 1997 ), The Sleepy Time Gal ( 2001 ), Hair High ( 2004 ) and Small Town Murder Songs ( 2011 ).

In 1935 McDaniel had prominent roles with her performance as a slovenly maid in RKO Pictures ' Alice Adams, a comic part as Jean Harlow's maid / traveling companion in MGM's China Seas, the latter her first film with Clark Gable, and as Isabella the maid in Murder by Television, with Béla Lugosi.

Bisset received a fourth Golden Globe nomination as Best Supporting Actress in 1984 for John Huston's Under the Volcano, which reunited her with Albert Finney, having worked with him previously in Two for the Road and Murder on the Orient Express.