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The Queen of Mystery indeed :)

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie

Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

The Big Four by Agatha Christie

The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie

Peril at End House by Agatha Christie

Lord Edgeware Dies by Agatha Christie

Murder of the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie

Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie

The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie

Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie

Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie

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So a few years ago I got my hands of the complete works of Sherlock Holmes narrated by Stephen Fry and got really excited, because I’ve always enjoyed mysteries. It then took me about 3 years to wade my way through it after the first book because disappointingly enough, though not necessarily surprisingly, Arthur Conan Doyle is a bit racist, xenophobic, and maybe just a product of his time, but a tad misogynistic too. Every time he had more than a couple of pages he […]

Something is Rotten in a Made-Up Balkan State

The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie

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Itinerant wanderer Anthony Cade is bored out of his mind leading tour groups of old biddies in South Africa when a chance encounter with an old friend leads him into a strange new adventure. Anthony is asked to deliver a juicy manuscript written by a former political leader from the made-up state of Herzoslovakia. He is also given a sheaf of letters written between a blackmailer and a young widow and tasked with returning them to her so she won’t worry that they’re still out […]

The Hollow and Lord Edgware Dies + Audible Originals

The Hollow by Agatha Christie

Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie

See How they Run by Rachel Howzell hall

Stories of the Stalked by Lily Baldwin

Free Billy by Don Winslow

Approval Junkie by Faith Salie

Out of Bounds by Chris Ballard

The Dogs of Venice by Stephen Rowley

Island Nation by Peter Heller

Fragments of a Young Conquistador by Lincoln Michel

Song of the Northwoods by Jessica Huang

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The Hollow – 4/5 Stars This is one of the mid-career Poirot novels, and it’s one of the ones where Poirot begins to revise and critique the ways in which crimes are investigated. We begin with a group of people on an estate swooning and hand-wringing about their wonderful, innocent, and sad friend Gerda, who seems to be married to someone who doesn’t love her. This is one of those Christie novels that takes place on a country estate, like several others, and like others, […]

A classic mystery that I apparently read twice?

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

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Goodreads tells me I read this book back in 2020.  I don’t remember reading it then, but I definitely read a version of it, because the setting and plot were familiar.  I think it was a modern retelling by a different author.  Goodreads tells me it might be In the Dark by Loreth Ann White.  I remember some of the names were the same, but the location was different.  I think there was a plane that fell in the water?  And then there was a […]

“If you’re on the list, someone wants you dead”

Nine Lives by Peter Swanson

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I can count on Peter Swanson for a solid mystery and Nine Lives, his latest book, is no exception.  The premise is borrowed from Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, which is mentioned several times in the book.  (Including the alternate titles the Christie story had, one which is considered offensive) Nine people receive a list of nine names in the mail, including their own.  They don’t know each other and nobody is sure what the link is between these nine lives. Then, like […]

“But there are many fools in the world. One praises God for their existence and keeps out of their way.”

The Man in the Brown Suit (Colonel Race, #1) by Agatha Christie

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This was a fun outlier in Christie’s body of work, though it is actually one of her earliest published books. She doesn’t normally do thrillers or espionage (and when she does it’s often not all that great), or feature one-off main characters, or feature a narrative that has travel and adventure in it, but this book has all of that. It’s also unfortunately one of the more dated of Christie’s works because it takes place outside that domestic sphere her other work is so comfortable […]



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