They Do It With Mirrors - Agatha Christie

Ordeal by Innocence - Agatha Christie

up the ending. And literally speaking, been a total waste of time reading an Agatha Christie. Because, let's face it, isn't the biggest part of the thrill reading a Christie, the on going battle you have with yourself to see if you can actually name the culprit before she does? To see if you can just, not beat exactly, but to see if you 'stay' with Christie and her ingenuous criminal mind. Gwan with ya, you know that you?d like to beat her, just once? There aren't many Christie books that I haven't read. And I have to say; Hercule Poirot is my favourite character. Jane Marple just doesn?t cut it for me. Oh, don't get me wrong, she is ...

Ordeal by Innocence - Agatha Christie

up the ending. And literally speaking, been a total waste of time reading an Agatha Christie. Because, let's face it, isn't the biggest part of the thrill reading a Christie, the on going battle you have with yourself to see if you can actually name the culprit before she does? To see if you can just, not beat exactly, but to see if you 'stay' with Christie and her ingenuous criminal mind. Gwan with ya, you know that you?d like to beat her, just once? There aren't many Christie books that I haven't read. And I have to say; Hercule Poirot is my favourite character. Jane Marple just doesn?t cut it for me. Oh, don't get me wrong, she is ...

Murder On the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie, that great writer of detective novels, was enjoying huge success during the 1930s. Her books were both incredibly popular and critically acclaimed, and the author was riding on the crest of a wave, writing some of the best work of her career, including the first Miss Marple stories, The Murder at the Vicarage (1930) and The Thirteen Problems (1932). After finishing a collection of short stories about the supernatural, titled The Hound of Death (1933), Christie turned her attentions towards her next book. Christie was a frequent traveller at the time, journeying around Europe with her husband who was an archaeologist. She had seen the famous European ...

Murder On the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie, that great writer of detective novels, was enjoying huge success during the 1930s. Her books were both incredibly popular and critically acclaimed, and the author was riding on the crest of a wave, writing some of the best work of her career, including the first Miss Marple stories, The Murder at the Vicarage (1930) and The Thirteen Problems (1932). After finishing a collection of short stories about the supernatural, titled The Hound of Death (1933), Christie turned her attentions towards her next book. Christie was a frequent traveller at the time, journeying around Europe with her husband who was an archaeologist. She had seen the famous European ...

Murder On the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

I’m sorry to say but this is one of the worst Agatha Christie books I’ve read. It’s the most predictable Poirot story I’ve read and I actually got bored in the middle. Everyone knows the basic plot. A man is murdered on the Orient Express, which unfortunately runs into a snowdrift, leaving the murderer trapped on the train. The murderer also didn’t account for Hecule Poirot being on the train. The idea behind the plot is fairly clever but the way it’s written makes it somewhat predictable. The ‘red herrings’ are so obvious and I felt I knew who the killer was almost from the beginning. The best bit would have to be the ...

Murder On the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

I’m sorry to say but this is one of the worst Agatha Christie books I’ve read. It’s the most predictable Poirot story I’ve read and I actually got bored in the middle. Everyone knows the basic plot. A man is murdered on the Orient Express, which unfortunately runs into a snowdrift, leaving the murderer trapped on the train. The murderer also didn’t account for Hecule Poirot being on the train. The idea behind the plot is fairly clever but the way it’s written makes it somewhat predictable. The ‘red herrings’ are so obvious and I felt I knew who the killer was almost from the beginning. The best bit would have to be the ...