Meaning of Agatha Christiesque | Babel Free
Definitions
Adjective. [B2]
Examples
“Death Lends A Hand (ATV, 10.30): Agatha Christiesque title for “Columbo” story that features ex-cowboy Robert Culp (now a superior TV movie villain) and veteran Ray Milland with the shabbily perspicacious Peter Falk as hero.”
“At the bar were an Agatha Christiesque assemblage of hotel guests, including some Arab-type Moroccans in djellabas smoking cigarettes from long holders, and Jean Dethier, an architect from the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, wearing an unlikely pink shirt and floral tie.”
“Readers of author and translator Dovalpage will recall⟳ her previous mystery, “Death of a Telenovela Star,” also took place⟳ aboard a cruise ship, a perfect Agatha Christiesque crucible of suspicion and subversive motivation.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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