Category Archives: Agatha Christie
Books of the month: November 2017
Pick of the month November was another odd month for me as I was generally out of sorts following my year’s earlier upheavals on the work and health fronts. This resulted in a fair amount of re-reading, something of a … Continue reading
Books of the month: March 2017
Pick of the month The good news is my reading picked up in both quantity and quality during March but the downside of that is it takes more effort to choose a favourite read of the month. After see-sawing between … Continue reading
A.C.E. Mini Reviews
The title of this most means nothing. Or almost nothing. Other than that I have finished books by authors whose surnames begin with A, C and E in the past few weeks and I’m never going to get around to … Continue reading
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2016: The Favourites as Reading Bingo
One of my favourite bloggers is once again challenging people to play Reading Bingo and another blogging pal has already played the game. Feeling a little left out I thought I would see how many of the 25 squares I could … Continue reading
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Book vs Adaptation: AND THEN THERE WERE NONE by Agatha Christie
Spoiler Warning: This post contains more information about the book’s plot than I normally would include but I felt unable to discuss some important issues without incorporating this. Naturally though I do not give away the ending. Most discussions of … Continue reading
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Book vs Adaptation: N OR M? by Agatha Christie
The book Tommy Beresford and Prudence ‘Tuppence’ Cowley are first introduced as the somewhat unlikely young heroes of Agatha Christie’s second published mystery novel THE SECRET ADVERSARY in 1922. They appear a few years later in a collection of short … Continue reading
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#1949 Book – Agatha Christie’s CROOKED HOUSE
It is easy, these days, to think of the classic country house mystery as passé. Trite. Derivative. But there was a time when this style of story was as fresh and popular as tales of domestic noir are today and … Continue reading
Musings on THE CLOCKS by Agatha Christie
THE CLOCKS isn’t one of the classic Christie’s books that takes its time to set the scene by introducing us to all the players and only then murdering one or three of the people we’ve come to know something about. … Continue reading
Book vs Adaptation: Murder on the Orient Express
For me MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS and its several adaptations offer a fine example of the spectrum of approaches that adaptors take when choosing to tell a story that has already been told. On one end of that spectrum … Continue reading
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