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Endless Night by Agatha Christie

October 24, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of cbr13bingo: fauna. There’s a raven on the cover. Endless Night is the rare Agatha Christie standalone and I’m finding that between this, A Pale Horse, and And Then There Were None, I’m finding that I may enjoy her standalone works more than those that feature her superstar heroes Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. (A Crooked House may be the exception to this rule. That’s one I liked a lot less than I thought I would.) I think without the need to shoehorn the large personality and abrasive, […]

Christie, Two Takes

The Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

October 15, 2021 by xoxoxoe Leave a Comment

The Murder on the Links and The Murder on the Orient Express and The Secret Adversary and And Then There Were None Agatha Christie has always been one of my go-to re-reads. It’s my literary comfort food. I’ve read and re-read most of what I have in my library, but didn’t feel like cracking the cover of an old favorite once again. My to-read pile didn’t look appealing, either, so what to do? I had a bunch of Audible credits and found a bunch of (free) […]

A timely mystery written over 50 years ago

The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side by Agatha Christie

October 5, 2021 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

The Mirror Crack’d is a Miss Marple mystery, and while I generally prefer Hercule Poirot, this is a story that made quite an impression on me when I first read it as a kid. I have thought of it often over the years but especially over the past few years for reasons that I cannot divulge since it would totally spoil the mystery. Let’s just say it’s timely and a fun, quick read. Christie published this story in 1962 and it has gotten the film/TV […]

Lord Edgware Dies

Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie

July 10, 2021 by Ellesfena Leave a Comment

Bingo square: Old Series Series: Hercule Poirot, book #9. I read book#8 in October of 2019. The last time I reviewed a Poirot was book #4. What I remembered about this series prior to reading this book: Obviously, I remember a lot about Poirot and his little gray cells, and Captain Hastings, the blundering narrator who assists him with his cases. I remember less about the actual mysteries themselves, but unfortunately I do remember Christie’s habit of casually throwing in a few racial epithets in […]

Not her best work, in my opinion.

Parker Pyne Investigates by Agatha Christie

July 10, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 24/30 This review is going to be on the shorter side, because I don’t think I have much to say about this one. Mostly, it just wasn’t what I was expecting! Firstly, this is a short story collection, not a novel (like I thought). Parker Pyne is indeed an investigator of sorts, but not one like Hercule Poirot (like I thought), but one like I’ve never seen before. So, props to good old Agatha on that one for originality, […]

Cannonballing with Agatha.

4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7) by Agatha Christie

June 7, 2021 by narfna 14 Comments

I had a very good time with this one. Especially the beginning and ending. (The middle did get a bit squidgy.) The premise of this one has Miss Marple in it from the beginning, which is always nice, but even when that happens, she still takes a backseat in her own books. This time, it’s because she says she’s too old now to do her own footwork, so she enlists the services of Miss Lucy Eyelesbarrow to help her search for a body. The set […]

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