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 detective,” [...]
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 was [...]
I’m in a challenge to read all the Agatha Christie mysteries in order of when they were published. In many cases these are re-reads for me. I’ve been a fan since my teens. I’ve read eleven books so far for the challenge, and not until Murder at the Vicarage did I meet Miss Marple. Finally [...]
I just finished reading this tenth published novel of Agatha Christie. In it she brought back a familiar place and some familiar characters. The setting is the country estate, Chimneys, which was the setting for her sixth novel, The Secret at Chimneys (1925). Ms. Christie meant The Seven Dials Mystery to be a sequel [...]
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by Agatha Christie
Berkley Books, 1928
My Rating: B+
“. . . I had changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don’t want to, don’t much like what you are writing, and aren’t writing particularly well. I have always hated The Mystery of the [...]
The Big Four
Agatha Christie
Dodd, Mead and Co., 1927
My Rating: B
Hercule Poirot is the star of this novel with his friend Captain Hastings as the narrator. The whole story starts with a strange man tumbling into Poirot’s rooms. He is barely able to communicate “The Big Four” before he dies mysteriously. Of course, our master sleuth [...]
This week is both Agatha Christie Week and Book Bloggers Appreciation Week (BBAW). For me they go together. Today’s assignment for BBAW is this:
Talk about a book you read only because you discovered it on another book blog.
In my case it was more about the bookS and how I’m reading them. You see I’ve been reading Agatha [...]