the marple movies

i like the miss marple movies better than the books. i like reading the feluda series of books because he is a smart detective!
football detective, age 12

small talk

These three detectives met over a cup of coffee to exchange notes and catch up on crime times. Can someone set the scene, put in some dialogues ...?

Name: Hercule Poirot
Author: Agatha Christie
The man Agatha Christie made famous, was born in 1916 as a not so young, astute and arrogant detective in her first novel: The Mysterious Affair at Styles. He was a retired private detective who had very strong views on everything, especially murderers. He took great pride in his grey cells and was extremely dismissive of the rest of the world.
Hastings, his friend and trusted sidekick described him thus. "He was hardly more than five feet four inches but carried himself with great dignity. His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it a little on one side. His moustache was very stiff and military. The neatness of his attire was almost incredible; I believe a speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound." He never rushed about looking for clues and interviewing people. His style was slow, measured and very precise. He lived through 33 novels and 65 short stories and was deeply mourned when he died.

Name: Miss Marple
Author: Agatha Christie
Miss Marple was born an old woman. She lived a life that seemed very dull and uninteresting from the outside but it was a world that was full of intrigue, mystery and murder. She was British and between 65 and 70 years old when she solved her first case.
Tall and thin with a pink wrinkled face, she always piled up her snowy white hair on the top of her head like a bun. She spoke in a slow and meandering fashion and she was always knitting. She never stood out in a crowd. Many dismissed her as a dithering old maid at first meeting but realised soon enough that she was a sharp observer of all things around her and of human nature. Miss Marple was quite clear that there is evil all around us and did not think well of those who thought old women should stay at home.

Name: Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes has been described as cold, conceited and astute. Some find his mannerisms effective and some others find it affected. At first glance, he appears a bit frightening but as you get to know him better, his habits may seem strange but they don’t alarm any more. His methods are difficult to understand.
He is addicted to music and plays the violin at odd hours. He practices shooting with his revolver indoors. He wears a deerstalker hat, a pipe and convex lenses – everything makes him a character that is larger than life. His sidekick, Dr Watson, is kinder and gentler and very loyal.
It is believed that the inspiration for Holmes came from Doyle’s former teacher at the University of Edinburgh, Dr. Joseph Bell, who had a hobby of deducing peoples’ character, by minor details of their appearance. Doyle also was known for his atmosphere of mystery in his novels: foggy November nights, dim gaslights and hansom cabs

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The Mystery of the Missing Exam Paper

"Oh please, help me, help me!" the damsel in distress begged the Great Detective TriKi, who watched and winced as the damsel flapped her school tie.

"My Hindi exam paper is lost. I have searched high and low, in and out, behind and beneath..... I cant find it anywhere", she wailed louder and louder. "I really, really need to hand it in tomorrow."

The Great Detective TriKi raised one hand and signaled for silence. The keen eye scanned the room minutely while the great brain processed visual information and calculated the odds of the missing paper turning up behind the curtain, under the mattress, inside the school bag, somewhere in the humungous mess on the desk...

"I can see all the other papers on the desk," TriKi muttered. "History, English, Physics, Biology...Hmmmm, the Maths paper looks rather bulky. Find Maths heavy-going, do you?" The damsel looked blank.

"Anyway, my dear, you really must not bother me with such trivial problems. It's perfectly obvious where the missing paper is. And if you had used the process of logical reasoning and systematic elimination, you would have found the paper within minutes," said TriKi, walking majestically out of the room.

"But... but.. where is it? Tell me!" asked the damsel petulantly.



Do you guys read Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot or other such brainy detectives? Write in and tell us which one is your favourite. And dont tell us where the missing paper is, coz... We know!

Percy WHO?

Since Percy Jackson just whizzed by, here's the writer behind the creation. He has a blog of his own. Check him out here and find out more. If you scroll right down you'll get sample chapters, and if you scroll down further you'll get Rick Riordan's suggestions for other books to read while you are waiting for him to complete his latest book.

http://www.rickriordan.com/children.htm

ciao

Shadows and substance

Hi. I'm Shadow. I'm ADS' friend. I haunt bookshelves and devour stories. Sweet ones, savory ones, sour and corny, bitter or salt, real and unreal, all of them are worth sampling. I'm happy to be here with you.




This is a place you could start a Readathon or a......A Readathon? WHA! A Whatathon??? Believe me the word exists.



Or you could review books you liked, loved or hated! That too.



OR you could blog what you want your friends to read. Your stuff. Stories and poems you wrote.



Illustrations are welcome too.



We keep our ears open too, for a good tale, and when we hear one which may or may not be new, but can bear the telling, this is where we'll bring it, so look out.

This is a place where we will post interesting stuff about authors too. Some of them were kids after all , once ....some are kids still!

Meanwhile there's Percy Jackson and Judy Moody out there looking in on us. Anything to say to them? And those Unfortunate and completely indestructible children to whom everything dreadful under the sun seems to happen Don't know who they are? Why not find out?

Bye for now.

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We are a bunch of young readers who want to chat about books. books we like, characters we love, stuff that creeps us out and so on... come join us. Write in a comment about what you'd like to us to start with. Or suggest the name of a book or an author or even a fictitious character who refuses to let you complete that awful maths assignment...