Showing posts with label Agatha Christie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Agatha Christie. Show all posts
Thursday, August 29, 2024

Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie

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Opening lines can make or break a book and this one has a doozy: You see, don’t you, that she’s got to be killed? This is a line that will c...
Sunday, August 4, 2024

Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie

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This is one of my favorite Poirot stories. Partly because of the story itself and partly because I love the David Suchet episode of this sto...
Sunday, June 2, 2024

Cards on the Table Agatha Christie

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Mr. Shaitana is well-known. He looks like Mephistopheles and often dresses like the devil at his much attended parties. But when he invites ...
Monday, March 4, 2024

Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie

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 Nurse Amy Leatheran has just finished a position with a nice young family and decides to stay in Iraq with an archaeological dig. Famous ar...
Sunday, February 25, 2024

Three Blind Mice and Other Stories by Agatha Christie

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A novelization of Christie's long-running play with stories starring Poirot and Miss Marple. A wonderful amalgam of some of Christie...
Monday, January 9, 2023

The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie

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Alice Asher of Andover has been murdered. It seems to be an open-and-shut case of a woman killed by her brute of an ex-husband. So why is He...
Friday, January 6, 2023

Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie

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Hercule Poirot, famously not good at river travel, takes to the air in this book. And it's a lovely glimpse into history as we see stewa...
Sunday, January 1, 2023

Crooked House by Agatha Christie

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This is one of Agatha Christie's stories that isn't part of one of her series. In this book, the narrator, Charles Haward, has falle...
Friday, December 30, 2022

Peril at End House by Agatha Christie

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Poirot is vacationing with his good friend, Hastings. While enjoying the sun, he is approached by a young woman, Nick Buckley. She is a part...
Monday, December 26, 2022

Black Coffee by Charles Osborne, Agatha Christie

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Hercule Poirot has been summoned by inventor Sir Claude Amory. Amory has an invention that could change the world but he is afraid that ther...
Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

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This book is a classic for some very good reasons. First, the majority of the characters are fully fleshed out. And there are a lot of chara...
Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie

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The stage is set in the first chapter. We meet some of the main players: Sir Charles Cartwright who owns the Crow's Nest in Loomouth, Co...
Friday, November 4, 2022

Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie

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The solution to this story is more than a little complicated with any number of coincidences but it is seemingly easily solved by Hercule Po...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie

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Ruth Kettering is unhappy. She didn't marry her first love, her millionaire father ran him off. But her current husband seems to be no b...
Monday, April 18, 2022

They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie

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Victoria Jones was a girl like most others. Unfortunately, her gift for mimicry gets her sacked in the second chapter of this book. She is a...
Friday, December 24, 2021

Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie

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Hercule Poirot goes to a country mansion to solve the mystery of how an old, disreputable man was murdered in his own rooms. Only the family...
Saturday, December 11, 2021

The Big Four by Agatha Christie

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Hastings finally manages to surprise Poirot by showing up on his doorstep. Also there? A mysterious stranger who collapses more or less in t...
Friday, December 10, 2021

The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie

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Jerry Burton has come to the supposedly quiet village of Lymstock to recover from a plane crash. Also with him is is sister Joanna. But it s...
Sunday, October 24, 2021

The Under Dog and Other Stories by Agatha Christie

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A series of short stories featuring the amazing Hercule Poirot, the first few stories are better than the later ones.  The Under Dog   An ol...
Sunday, October 17, 2021

Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie

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Gwenda Halliday Reed is newly married and just bought a new home. She is delighted until strange things start happening. When she wants to p...