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“And they all liv’d together in a little crooked house.”

Crooked House by Agatha Christie

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Ooh, I got really into this one. It’s been a month since I’ve finished so I’ve had some time to think (though I do of course wish I’d written the review right away, but alas) and I think the reason that I loved this one so much is that it’s one of the few non-detective mystery novels to get the mystery part right and have it be believable. A lot of the time, as a mystery fan when encountering books with non-detective main characters, there […]

February 2023 Leftovers

Dead Wind by Tessa Wegert

One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus

Messi vs. Ronaldo: One Rivalry, Two Goats, and the Era That Remade the World's Game by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg

The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz

The Title: The Story of the First Division by Scott Murray

The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson

Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie

The Fiancée by Kate White

The Guns of Heaven by Pete Hamill

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Hey on the last day of the month, it finally snowed in New York! Huzzah! Dead Wind**** I can’t talk about why I like this book without even the mildest of spoilers if you’ve been following the series. So I’ll talk about what I appreciate. I’ve been in an on-and-off reading slump the last two months. It’s been hard to finish stuff. Tessa Wegert’s Shana Merchant series really feels like the exception to the rule. I like her writing, her pacing, her protagonist. All good. One […]

“News always reached Miss Marple, one way or another.”

Marple: Twelve New Stories by Various

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I would read more of these Agatha Christie short story collections featuring notable authors, for sure. Even the ones where Americans tried and failed to capture that British Marple feeling were entertaining in their failure. But most of these stories were pretty successful! One nailed it completely. Highlights for me were the stories from Ruth Ware (I know!), Naomi Alderman, Elly Griffiths, Kate Mosse, and Leigh Bardugo. This may be the easy way out, but I’ve just copied and pasted my Goodreads status update mini-reviews […]

“It is a profound belief of mine that if you can induce a person to talk to you for long enough, on any subject whatever, sooner or later they will give themselves away.”

After the Funeral (Hercule Poirot, #26) by Agatha Christie

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I had a really good time with this one, and the mystery in this one was actually one of the most intriguing of hers to me, even though it isn’t one of her most popular. I’m not sure why it’s one of her more lowly-rated ones. Maybe because Poirot pulls a Marple and is barely in it? The plot in this one kicks off as family patriarch Richard Abernethie’s funeral. He was ill for a long time, but had been predicted to live at least […]

“From now on, it is our task to suspect each and every one amongst us.”

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

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Everyone’s heard of Agatha Christie, and I like mysteries, so I wasn’t disappointed when our book club selected: And Then There Were None (1939). I’d read only one other Christie mystery, so I was googling it to figure out if I’d read it before when I came across some troubling information. The original British title of this book is horrendously offensive, and the original American title is only a little bit better. The premise of this murder mystery is that ten people are invited to a large […]

A Later Hercule Poirot Mystery

Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot #22) by Agatha Christie

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I’m not sure if this is my second or third Hercule Poirot book. I originally started reading this as a combo book of number 1 (ummm the poisoning one – They Mysterious Affair at Styles) and this one, which is number 22. I’ve seen Death on the Nile, the train one (it’s probably Agatha Christie blasphemy to not remember the name – Murder on the Orient Express), and maybe another Poirot movie? When you read so many books and watch so many movies sometimes they […]



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