by Agatha Christie Dodd, Mead and Company, 1930 My Rating: B+ Mr. Satterthwaite and Mr. Quin are two men featured in the twelve stories compiled into The Mysterious Mr. Quin. The stories were originally published in magazines in England the 1920′s. Each one of the stories is subtle detective work for Mr. Satterthwaite. Not a lot [...]
Those of you who read my blog regularly know that I am attempting to read all of Agatha Christie’s published works in order of their publication date. Up to this point I’ve managed to plow right through books published up to 1934. I’ve read a total of 16. While doing some research on Three Act [...]
I’ve been reading Agatha Christie’s books in publication order. This is the 17th book and one of the few that does not feature one of her famous detectives. There is no Hercule Poirot, no Miss Marple, nor Tommy and Tuppence. In Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? Ms. Christie introduced Bobby Jones and Lady Frances or [...]
by Agatha Christie Dodd, Mead and Company, 1934 My Rating: A+ Back in the 1970s the movie version of Murder On the Orient Express was a smash hit. After seeing the movie I read the book. I liked both book and movie then and I really liked them now, as you can see from my [...]
This book was originally published in 1934 as Lord Edgware Dies. Later that year it was published in the United States by Dodd Mead & Company as 13 At Dinner. Jane Wilkinson is a famous and an extremely beautiful American actress who is also married to Lord Edgware. According to Jane/Lady Edgware, her husband is [...]
Nick Buckley seems to be one of those young women I associate with the 1920′s who spent her time floating around with no real cares. She’s the mistress of a big old house, End House, in a beautiful resort town. Her friends visit quite often. No one seems to have a job. The “world’s greatest [...]
The Sittaford Mystery was published in the United States as The Murder at Hazelmoor. As I got into this book I realized that the two titles are very true of this story. There is both a murder to be solved at Hazelmoor and a mystery begging to be solved at Sittaford. Let me explain. Sittaford House [...]