The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie
August 15, 2022 update: Honestly this one drags even on a re-read and I knew what was coming. And the main issue with that is that the book does not have Miss Marple come into the story until more than halfway through. And we don’t get to see what she is up to since we just follow the book via Jerry Burton’s point of view. As I said in my original review, I really wish we could have built up Joanna more. She’s a lot […]
The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
Update August 15, 2022: I had to read something that was going to get me out of a reading funk. Two other books I started this last week just put me in a mood. I love a good Miss Marple, and I am trying to get back into the flow of things for an upcoming book bingo that I start yearly from September through Halloween. I always loved the Bantry’s and they appear in the “13 Problems” and Dolly appears in some later books in […]
Peril at End House by Agatha Christie
CBR Bingo Square: Camel/Adaptation “Poirot,” I said. “I have been thinking.” “An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.” Alright, it’s not all just highfalutin’ theme reading over here (but the summer of Irish fiction rolls on), I am also cramming in books that are simply and purely for fun. Most of my Golden Age crime fiction reading for the past year or two has been working through Ngaio Marsh’s back catalog, but I’ve also been dabbling in some Christie here and there. And I really […]
Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie
CBR Bingo: Cozy Once a man is imbued with the idea that he knows who ought to be allowed to live and who ought not—then he is halfway to becoming the most dangerous killer there is—the arrogant criminal who kills not for profit—but for an idea. Agatha Christie’s Cards on the Table is a pretty good cozy mystery. A Mephistophelean host, Mr. Shaitana, invites what he purports are four murderers who got away with their crimes to dinner. He also invites four sleuths, including Hercule […]
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
CBR Bingo: Elephant I am an Agatha Christie freak. I love everything she’s ever written and have read almost all of her books. One of her most famous books, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, is known for its ingenious twist. For many years I was excited to read the book. One day I was browsing my mother’s books, when I found a guide to all of Christie’s novels—basically a reading list, in the order they were written and in some cases the order they should […]
Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #9) by Agatha Christie
30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 2 Book 12/30 The ending has made this one of my favorite Christies. You’d think eventually I’d stop being stymied by this woman’s writing, a woman who started writing mysteries a hundred years ago at this point, but it has yet to happen. Maybe I am just terrible at figuring out mysteries, but it’s probably that Christie was just that good. (Or both.) This one started out pretty standard for me. Poirot is called to do something a little […]
