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N or M? - Agatha Christie

The author: Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair At Styles, which introduced the now famous Hercule Poirot was published in 1920. Her other well known creation, Miss Marple, first appeared in a short story in 1927 but she also created a number of other detectives who appeared in her novels. During her lifetime Christie wrote a number of novels, short stories, poetry & plays. Her play "The Mousetrap" holds the world record for the longest run in history as it has been performed since 1952. Christie is estimated to have sold around 4 billion copies of her collected works, putting her second only to The ...

The Seven Dials Mystery - Agatha Christie

Published in 1929 and clinging determinedly on to the vestiges of that Roaring decade, "The Seven Dials Mystery" might be better described as an adventure, rather than a murder mystery story. Certaintly murders do oocur within the story and a solution needs to be found, but the roles of the detectives in the story are either understated or amateur, leaving the focus of the narrative on the "gripping yarn" than Christie seems to have attempted. In this way it is similar to its prequel, "The Secret of Chimneys" and to "The Man in the Brown Suit", both of which were also published in the 1920's. "The Seven Dials Mystery" begins with ...

The Seven Dials Mystery - Agatha Christie

her friends and Superintendent Battle, work out what the members of The Seven Dials are up to before there are more deaths? I am a huge fan of Agatha Christie s work and it is rare that I come across a book I don t already know off by heart. The Seven Dials Mystery is one that I have read, but so long ago that I had forgotten the plot. Reading it again showed me why the book is not one of Christie s best-known; it is an entertaining read, but it lacks some of the taut story-telling that some of her more famous works have. It is, though, still a good story and I did enjoy reading it. Most people will know that Christie s most famous characters are Hercule Poirot and ...