This week, The Economist has a nice – and short – article about Agatha Christie and her long-lived popularity. I’m obviously fond of Christie’s books, most of which have weathered the test of time pretty well. (There are a few exceptions, and many of them do read like historical mysteries now…) And most of them […]
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The Complete Miss Marple Collection by Agatha Christie is $0.99 in the US right now. Per the blurb, this “gathers together all of Agatha Christie’s novels featuring her beloved intrepid investigator, Miss Marple”. And although I haven’t gone through and checked them off one-by-one, it looks to me as if this is all of
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A few moments of awkwardness, but overall these stories have aged pretty well… As I mentioned in my earlier review of a recently re-issued Agatha Christie book, it feels presumptuous for me to be reviewing anything Christie wrote. But at the same time, receiving a review copy of Dover’s new e-edition of Poirot Investigates did
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It deserves all its accolades… I feel a bit brash reviewing Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. After all, it’s considered one of her masterpieces, and shows up on multiple “best mysteries” and “books to read before you die” lists. The acclaim is totally deserved, in my opinion, and I’m not quite sure what
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