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Partners in Crime

Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie

January 1, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is the first and only collection of short stories that Agatha Christie published with Tommy and Tuppence. The married spies and sometime crime solvers first showed up in The Secret Adversary in 1922, Christie’s second novel. There’s three more novels, and the one that I’ve read so far N or M, feels like a dramatic tone shift from these first two books. That’s in part because they become a kind of stand-in for Christie’s own sense of purpose being waylaid by WWII. They want […]

4, 4 for 4

Hawkeye, Vol. 1: My Life As A Weapon by Matt Fraction

Death Comes As The End by Agatha Christie

Country Dark by Chris Offutt

Heaven's A Lie by Wallace Stroby

December 8, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

Over the weekend and into the early part of this week, I read four books. Each one merited four stars and all were good in their own unique way… Hawkeye, Vol 1: My Life as a Weapon It’s good. I guess. No really, it’s good. All good. It’s fine. Just…it’s kind of why I don’t read a lot of comics: simplistic hero narratives with twee dialogue. I know this is what everyone wants thanks to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I’m not sure it’s what […]

with this post, you will know every book i read this year and how i felt about them

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

The Night Sister by Jennifer McMahon

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones

We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz

Life's Too Short by Abby Jimenez

Ten Dead Comedians by Fred Van Lente

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

N or M? by Agatha Christie

Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney

The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling

November 27, 2021 by Jenna 1 Comment

You’ve probably heard of this one already. Woman takes the regional train to and from work every day and watches for a couple who live on a house backing the tracks. She likes to make up stories about what they’re doing every day. One day she sees the wife kissing a man who’s not her husband. Because her previous marriage ended due to infidelity, the main character goes to confront the wife, whom she does not know, but her alcoholism intervenes and she blacks out […]

One to skip

Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie

November 7, 2021 by blauracke Leave a Comment

While looking for a missing golf ball, Bobby Jones finds a dying man that has apparently fallen over a steep cliff. The man’s last words, “Why didn’t they ask Evans?”, appear to make no sense. Bobby’s friend, Lady Frances Derwent, is intrigued by the mystery, and together they set out to solve it. Usually I’m a huge fan of Agatha Christie, but this one is more or less a disappointment. Frankie and Bobby are the most incompetent amateur sleuths one can imagine, and Bobby especially […]

Locked island mystery

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

October 31, 2021 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

Another Agatha Christie! Clearly I like a detective novel and given the stress of pandemic wedding planning and the ‘spooky’ month of October, another Agatha Christie just felt right. And Then There Were None is Christie’s 1939 book, previously published as Ten Little Indians and before that by another even more offensive title. The name of the book comes from children’s nursery rhyme that forms the basis for the multiple murders in the book. Set on an island off the south coast of England, the […]

If Hercule Poirot is on your train you know someone is about to die

The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie

October 31, 2021 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

The Mystery of the Blue Train is the 6th in Agatha Christie’s series featuring famous oddball Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. Published in 1928, this installment sees a murder almost fall into Poirot’s lap- a fellow passenger on the (famous at the time) Le Train Bleu, an express train from Calais to the French riveria. The murder victim is American heiress Ruth Kettering, who was on the way to meet her continental lover,. The immediate suspicion is a robbery gone wrong, as some very expensive rubies […]

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