The Mystery of the Blue Trai - Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie, widely accepted as the Queen of Crime, was a prolific writer. Only outsold by Shakespeare and the Bible, she has sold over a billion books in English and a further billion in other languages. Her most famous creations are Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, representations of whom can be seen regularly on our television screens. This book features Poirot, the dapper little Belgian detective with his superior powers of deduction and moustache-twirling tendencies. The plot of The Mystery of the Blue Train did feel slightly formulaic to my mind. A rich American beauty is married to an impoverished English cad, a man with ...  Read the complete review

The lives of Katherine Grey and Ruby Kettering could not, for years, be more different from each other. A poorly paid and hard worked companion to an elderly woman, Katherine had seen the last ten years of her life living a safe if rather dull existence in the small village of St Mary Mead (incidentally this story does not feature Miss Marple in any way). In contrast to this Ruby Kettering knew of only luxury, devoted upon by her father who had recently bought her some rubies known as "The Heart of Fire" and able to buy whatever she wanted, if it was not for the unamicable separation between her and her husband and her attempts to keep her new liasons with a ...  Read the complete review