Protesters on both sides of the abortion issue gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building during the Right To Life March, on January 18, 2019, in Washington, D.C. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images
A prominent pro-life activist has started a new project designed to help women who want to take legal action after experiencing complications from an abortion.
Hurt After Abortion, launched last month, is the latest project of Pro-Love Ministries, which was founded by pro-life activist and former Planned Parenthood Employee of the Year, Abby Johnson. The project is a partnership with the Thomas More Society, a notable Catholic law firm.
Move over, Agatha Christie – meet the new whodunit royalty
The Queen of Crime is an inspiration for several of today’s bestselling authors, from their super-lux settings to their locked-room plots
House party: the cast of the 2015 Christie TV adaptation, And Then There Were None
Since Agatha Christie published her first book a century ago, her crime fiction has never been out of fashion with readers – and yet her fellow writers haven’t always been so keen. In fact, those authors in the second half of the 20th century who aimed to bring depth of characterisation and moral focus to the crime novel queued up to denigrate her. To PD James, she was “such a bad writer”; Ruth Rendell said that “when I read one of her books, I don’t feel as though I have a piece of fiction worthy of the name in front of me.”
ebevins@newsandsentinel.com Patrons take their seats before Sunday’s performance of “And Then There Were None” at the Mid-Ohio Valley Players Theater in Marietta. (Photo by Evan Bevins) Mid-Ohio Valley Players volunteer usher Robin Parsons, left, takes the temperature of Parkersburg resident David Sommerville as he and his wife, Lynn, arrive at the Marietta theater for Sunday’s matinee performance of “And Then There Were None.” (Photo by Evan Bevins) Patrons arrive at the Mid-Ohio Valley Players Theater in Marietta Sunday for a matinee performance of “And Then There Were None.” (Photo by Evan Bevins)
Mid-Ohio Valley Players volunteer usher Robin Parsons, left, takes the temperature of Parkersburg resident David Sommerville as he and his wife, Lynn, arrive at the Marietta theater for Sunday’s matinee performance of “And Then There Were None.” (Photo by Evan Bevins)
Listen to Kelsey Patterson as she recommends And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. This is Kelsey Patterson with the Sioux City Public Library and you’re listening to Check It Out.
Today, I’m recommending a mystery classic
And Then There Were None by the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie. First published in 1939, this is the story that made Agatha Christie the bestselling novelist of all time, it sold over 100 million copies, and is read the world over in more than 50 languages. Christie once said, “It was so difficult to do that the idea had fascinated me.” It was an idea which has now become the basis for many Hollywood horror films and is a cliché to modern audiences, but it was Agatha Christie who was the first to do it and so successfully that the story has become her most adapted piece of writing.