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They Do It With Mirrors

They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie

September 13, 2022 by Classic Leave a Comment

September 13, 2022 review: Well I read this for Halloween bingo 2021, “Locked Room Mystery” square. LMAO. I can’t help it, I am always going to find a way to read Christie during the months of September and October. She always seems to be a symbol of the coming darker winter days. The locked room aspect comes into play when a young man comes and demands to speak to Lewis Serrocold at gunpoint behind locked doors of his office. What is interesting though is that […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: agatha christie, Miss Marple #6

Classic's CBR14 Review No:194 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: agatha christie, Miss Marple #6 ·
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A Murder is Announced

A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie

September 13, 2022 by Classic Leave a Comment

Updated review September 13, 2022: Wow. I always say this one really does hit all the feels, at least it did for me on why and how I became such a fan of Miss Marple. This book nicely sets the stage for a murder and then Miss Marple comes in after meeting inspector Craddock at a lunch with Sir Henry Clithering. Miss Marple just knows something is off about the whole set up a party being announced and a man is then murdered after attempting […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: agatha christie, Miss Marple #5

Classic's CBR14 Review No:193 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: agatha christie, Miss Marple #5 ·
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The Convenience of Train Travel

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

September 10, 2022 by The Chancellor Leave a Comment

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’m not a big fan of mystery but Agatha Christie has a way of making look past that. Set in the years between WWI and WWII, “Murder on the Orient Express” has murder, glamor, intrigue, and train travel. Oh, and Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective that features in many of Ms. Christie’s books. Poirot is between cases and is looking forward to a vacation. We start in northern Syria as he […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: agatha christie, mystery

The Chancellor's CBR14 Review No:10 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: agatha christie, mystery ·
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An Agatha Christie intro

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot #1) by Agatha Christie

September 5, 2022 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

I’ve definitely read at least one or two of Agatha Christie’s books before. I’ve also seen a few movies of her books. The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the first Hercule Poirot novel.  I thought it was interesting to “meet” Poirot in his first novel after already seeing him portrayed in a few movies. I pictured Kenneth Branagh, but I guess a younger version while reading this book.  We start with a murder mystery at Styles, which some rich lady’s house. We meet her and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: agatha christie, Hercule Poirot

kfishgirl's CBR14 Review No:35 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: agatha christie, Hercule Poirot ·
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When she wants something, she has the knack of making it seem inevitable.

Marple: Twelve New Mysteries by Naomi Alderman; Leigh Bardugo; Alyssa Cole; Lucy Foley; Elly Griffiths; Natalie Haynes; Jean Kwok; Val McDermid; Karen M. McManus; Dreda Say Mitchell; Kate Mosse; Ruth Ware

September 4, 2022 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

I enjoyed this collection of contemporary writers writing new short stories featuring Agatha Christie’s Miss Jane Marple. Two of the things that make Miss Marple such an interesting character, and so ripe for reinterpretation are her clear eyed, somewhat cynical view of humanity, and the way she is underestimated because of her age. The stories that worked best were the ones that embraced these aspects. Some stories worked better than others with a couple of standouts and a couple of authors whose backlist I’ll be […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Short Stories Tagged With: advance reader copy, agatha christie, Anthology, Naomi Alderman, Leigh Bardugo, Alyssa Cole, Lucy Foley, Elly Griffiths, Natalie Haynes, Jean Kwok, Val McDermid, Karen M. McManus, Dreda Say Mitchell, Kate Mosse, Ruth Ware, NetGalley

Emmalita's CBR14 Review No:96 · Genres: Mystery, Short Stories · Tags: advance reader copy, agatha christie, Anthology, Naomi Alderman, Leigh Bardugo, Alyssa Cole, Lucy Foley, Elly Griffiths, Natalie Haynes, Jean Kwok, Val McDermid, Karen M. McManus, Dreda Say Mitchell, Kate Mosse, Ruth Ware, NetGalley ·
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The Moving Finger

The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie

August 15, 2022 by Classic Leave a Comment

August 15, 2022 update: Honestly this one drags even on a re-read and I knew what was coming. And the main issue with that is that the book does not have Miss Marple come into the story until more than halfway through. And we don’t get to see what she is up to since we just follow the book via Jerry Burton’s point of view. As I said in my original review, I really wish we could have built up Joanna more. She’s a lot […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: agatha christie, cbr14bingo

Classic's CBR14 Review No:171 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: agatha christie, cbr14bingo ·
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