Showing posts with label Agatha Christie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Agatha Christie. Show all posts
Friday, July 17, 2026

Mrs. McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie

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It seems obvious that Mrs. McGinty was killed by her lodger, the obnoxious James Bentley. So why is Superintendent Spencer coming to a retir...
Sunday, July 12, 2026

Country Christie Country Tales from the Queen of Mystery by Agatha Christie

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The book opens with an introduction of a snippet written by Christie, talking about her life as a young child in Torquay. In this book are g...
Monday, July 6, 2026

Taken at the Flood by Agatha Christie, narrator Hugh Fraser

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Gordon Cloade did his family no favors. Yes, he showered them with money, but he made them entirely dependent on him. So, when he died in an...
Saturday, June 6, 2026

The Labors of Hercules by Agatha Christie with Hugh Fraser (Narrator)

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Hercule Poirot is feeling like he is in a rut. Then a friend mentions that he is not very like his namesake, Hercules. So he decides to unde...
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

The Hollow by Agatha Christie, Hugh Fraser (Narrator)

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Dr. John Christow has a varied romantic background. Now, at a weekend at his friends' Sir Henry and Lady Lucy Angkatell's house, kno...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie, Hugh Fraser (Narrator)

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Sixteen years ago, a famous artist was killed. Of course, it was the long-suffering wife who had endured any number of affairs. Most recentl...
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie with narrator David Suchet

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I get this story and the "Triangle at Rhodes" confused with each other. Both are Poirot on vacation with a glamorous woman, in thi...
Thursday, February 19, 2026

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie

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A visit to the dentist doesn't usually but end up with a visit from the police, but it happens to our favorite protagonist. After he see...
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Murder in the Mews by Agatha Christie, with narrators Hugh Fraser, Nigel Hawthorne

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Dead Man's Mirror Gervase Chevinix-Gore writes to Poirot. He's well known for being incredibly proud of his family. But he never had...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie

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I love Tommy and Tuppence. I think that's actually how I started my review for "The Secret Adversary." But they are just so mu...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie

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Elinor Carlisle has it all. Or she's going to. She's the apparent heir to her wealthy aunt and she has a fabulous fiance. But, Roddy...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

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 Love, love, love Tommy and Tuppence. This is the first of their adventures together, starting just after WWI, both Tommy and Tuppence are a...
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...