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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 […]

“And that very same evening—that very same evening—Lord Edgware dies. Good title that, by the way. Lord Edgware Dies. Look well on a book stall.”

Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #9) by Agatha Christie

May 26, 2022 by narfna 6 Comments

30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 2 Book 12/30 The ending has made this one of my favorite Christies. You’d think eventually I’d stop being stymied by this woman’s writing, a woman who started writing mysteries a hundred years ago at this point, but it has yet to happen. Maybe I am just terrible at figuring out mysteries, but it’s probably that Christie was just that good. (Or both.) This one started out pretty standard for me. Poirot is called to do something a little […]

The Queen of Mystery indeed :)

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie

Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

The Big Four by Agatha Christie

The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie

Peril at End House by Agatha Christie

Lord Edgeware Dies by Agatha Christie

Murder of the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie

Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie

The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie

Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie

Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie

May 25, 2022 by postcardsandbooks 2 Comments

So a few years ago I got my hands of the complete works of Sherlock Holmes narrated by Stephen Fry and got really excited, because I’ve always enjoyed mysteries. It then took me about 3 years to wade my way through it after the first book because disappointingly enough, though not necessarily surprisingly, Arthur Conan Doyle is a bit racist, xenophobic, and maybe just a product of his time, but a tad misogynistic too. Every time he had more than a couple of pages he […]

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 […]

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 […]

Behind in reviews, we are doing a weird omnibus

The ABC Murders by Hercule Poirot

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

People We Meet On Vacation by Emily Henry

Falling for a Rake by Eve Pendle

May 31, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

The ABC Murders – *** Picked up on a whim after a recommendation! As I’m also v behind in reviews and somewhat struggling to remember specifics of all the books I’ve read, it’s a perfect opportunity to put into practice my rating scale. Hercule Poirot mysteries are a mainstay in a very specific type of comfort reading, and honestly Christie is a genius for being able to write so many varying tropes in a way that feels connected but fresh. I definitely thought we were […]

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