It seemed like an act of charity: bestselling Australian chick-lit author Jessica Adams, who’s also famous for the astrology column she writes for major newspapers and magazines, contributed a short story to a non-profit magazine sold by the homeless, The Big Issue. But, as Louise Evans reports in a story for The Australian, when playwright Janelle Evans picked up a copy of The Big Issue to read on the bus, something about Adams’ story, a murder mystery called “The Circle,” struck her as familiar—it seemed to have a lot in common with an Agatha Christie story called ” The Idol House of Astarte.” Adams denies she was in any way so much as influenced by Christie, but ” it is cut-and-dried plagiarism” says one professor called as an expert. Meanwhile, reporter Evans notes that ” In her stars column last Sunday, Adams, who is a Leo, predicts: ‘If you face opposition or challenging people this week, you’re likely to come up with your most cunning plan yet. You’ll get away with it, too, if you’re clever, but don’t get carried away with your success.'”