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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 […]

“He played the part of the devil too successfully. But he was not the devil. Au fond, he was a stupid man. And so – he died.”

Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #14) by Agatha Christie

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I just love the atmosphere of a good Agatha Christie book. There’s not really anything like it. I was bit of a dum-dum and started listening to this one (with classic Christie narrator, Hugh Fraser) while doing stuff at work and didn’t pay it sufficient attention at first, and so was feeling a bit lost. Which is a shame! Because once I started paying attention, I had a really good time with this one. It’s a bit different than Christie’s other mysteries, in that we […]

An Agatha Christie intro

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot #1) by Agatha Christie

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I’ve definitely read at least one or two of Agatha Christie’s books before. I’ve also seen a few movies of her books. The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the first Hercule Poirot novel.  I thought it was interesting to “meet” Poirot in his first novel after already seeing him portrayed in a few movies. I pictured Kenneth Branagh, but I guess a younger version while reading this book.  We start with a murder mystery at Styles, which some rich lady’s house. We meet her and […]

“And that very same evening—that very same evening—Lord Edgware dies. Good title that, by the way. Lord Edgware Dies. Look well on a book stall.”

Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #9) by Agatha Christie

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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 […]

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 […]

If Hercule Poirot is on your train you know someone is about to die

The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie

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The Mystery of the Blue Train is the 6th in Agatha Christie’s series featuring famous oddball Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. Published in 1928, this installment sees a murder almost fall into Poirot’s lap- a fellow passenger on the (famous at the time) Le Train Bleu, an express train from Calais to the French riveria. The murder victim is American heiress Ruth Kettering, who was on the way to meet her continental lover,. The immediate suspicion is a robbery gone wrong, as some very expensive rubies […]



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