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Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

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From time-to-time, I like to read a random Agatha Christie. As perhaps the greatest whodunnit writer of all-time, Christie keeps me sharp as a writer, even if I’m not especially a fan of whodunnits. I grabbed this one randomly from my local library, assuming that at any moment, my state will have a stay-at-home order and I’ll have to hunker down again with books. That hasn’t happened…yet. But when I had space over the weekend to get to this one, I was excited to do […]

Returning once more to one of Hercule Poirot’s greatest cases #I Love This

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

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Sometimes I feel like my CBR reviews are either fantasy or Agatha Christie. I’ve been a fan of both for years, and I return sometimes to Christie when I need a quick read. This time, it was actually because I found that my library has the audiobook version of Death on the Nile–read by DAVID SUCHET. Who uses his Poirot voice when appropriate. Needless to say, I LOVED this version of something I’ve already loved for ages. Death on the Nile is one of Christie’s […]

It often seems to me that’s all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again.

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

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I feel like this is a beloved book among the many Poirot titles in part because I know it by name in a way that I don’t for many of the others. I liked it well enough, but not as much as many of the many other books in the series or by Agatha Christie in general. For one, I am not sure I like Colonel Race at all. He doesn’t seem to add a lot to the narratives in my perspective and easily could […]



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