Showing posts with label Hercule Poirot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hercule Poirot. 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...
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...
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...
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...
Thursday, October 14, 2021

Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie

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It is coincidence that has Poirot and Hastings seated near Jane Wilkinson, Lady Edgware, while attending a show where an American actress, C...
Monday, September 27, 2021

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

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This is not the first meeting of Hastings and Poirot. They met in Belgium but this book takes place in England while Hastings is invalided o...
Sunday, September 26, 2021

Midwinter Murder by Agatha Christie

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This is a perfectly lovely collection of various stories by Agatha Christie including a wide swathe of her detectives. There were a few stor...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

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Poirot is on vacation when a newlywed, bright and golden Linnet Doyle nee Ridgeway, is murdered. Traveling in Egypt, he has also encountered...