Doctor Who: The Unicorn and the Wasp
by Gareth Roberts; dir. Graeme Harper (BBC, 2008)
Consciously overplayed comedy serving as a mid-season palate cleanser. David Tennant and Catherine Tate are obviously enjoying themselves. The story, while hokey, has enough of an idea to remain credible, poking gentle fun both at itself and at the murder mystery genre.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
by Agatha Christie (John Lane, 1920); audiobook read by Hugh Fraser (Harper Collins, 2006)
An agreeable debut for both Christie and Poirot; yet for all the ingenious conception and deft foreshadowing, its mystery nevertheless comes across more as an intellectual puzzle for the author to have pieced together than as a whodunnit to engage the reader.