Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Poirot vs. A Serial Killer!

The ABC Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13) by Agatha Christie

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I’ve read a lot of Agatha Christie books at this point (but still have so many left! She was a gift) and this has to be one of my favorite so far. This was also the first of her novels I’ve not read by audiobook, and I liked it! (I do still love the indulgent feeling I get from listening to a Christie by audio, especially if it’s Dan Stevens reading it to me.) I will probably pepper in a few hard copies here and […]

Little Grey Cell Comfort Food

Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly by Agatha Christie

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When I can’t think of anything else to read, or just want something comforting and familiar, there is always Agatha Christie. And although I have read (I think) most of her books by now, I am still drawn most frequently to the ones featuring the inimitable Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot. He of the meticulous ways and fantastic mustaches. With his obsession with detail and as Ben Franklin says, “a place for everything, everything in its place,” he has to be a Virgo, like me. And […]

450 from Paddington – Agatha Christie (1957)

450 from Paddington by Agatha Christie

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Oh to be friends with Miss Marple where you will either be murdered, be implicated in a murder, or witness a murder. When Miss Marple’s friend sees a man murdering a woman on a passing train, she tells her friend and they begin to investigate who, what, when, and most importantly where. Where did the body go? To help figure this out, Miss Marple hires on a savant of sorts, one Miss Eylesbarrow, who after finishing college crafted herself into one of the most sought […]

A potential answer to a real-life mystery. YMMV!

The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict

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Overall, I enjoyed this one, but I will admit that I was also disappointed by it. I love Agatha Christie, both as a writer and as a historical figure, and her infamous real life disappearance of course fascinates me (as it has many people before me). She never spoke publicly about the eleven days she was missing afterwards, not even in her autobiography, so it’s a mystery history will never solve. It was extremely intriguing, to say the least, that Marie Benedict wanted to offer […]

Surprised by an oldie

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

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[Read as an audiobook from the public library] I hesitated to add this one because it’s just so old, but I honestly enjoyed it when I listened to it in January and it kicked off a good fit of audiobook consumption so I thought, might as well. My real introduction to Agatha Christie came with Phoebe Judge’s Phoebe Reads a Mystery podcast, when she read The Mysterious Affair at Styles. I have a collection of Christie mysteries knocking around the house somewhere, but I could […]

Five Little Pigs – Agatha Christie (1942)

Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie

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Somehow, and I know I know it counts short stories, plays, and collection, this is the 25th Hercule Poirot novel and it’s only 1942. In a recent article I read, and thinking about her second Tommy and Tuppence novel N or M?, there’s a clear sense (outside of the text) that Christie was getting somewhat frustrated with Poirot by this time. In this story, we have an old murder that was satisfactorily solved, according to the police and others. An artist was killed, his wife […]



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