Three Blind Mice - Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie in general

lady in tweed suits? And wasn’t she the one who made up that foreign strange poisoned dwarf that’s on TV when ITV have ran out of trashy telly. Ah yes, Agatha Christie. So you plod along to the Crime section of Waterstones, and are faced with a whole shelf of Agathas. Bit daunting isn’t it?! Poirot, the Belgian det ective, who uses his ‘little grey cells’ to solve murders is the star of Murder on the Nile, Murder of the Orient Express and Evil under the Sun is a good read, with The Mysterious Affair at Styles (the first novel Christie ever wrote) introducing ...

Agatha Christie in general

lady in tweed suits? And wasn’t she the one who made up that foreign strange poisoned dwarf that’s on TV when ITV have ran out of trashy telly. Ah yes, Agatha Christie. So you plod along to the Crime section of Waterstones, and are faced with a whole shelf of Agathas. Bit daunting isn’t it?! Poirot, the Belgian det ective, who uses his ‘little grey cells’ to solve murders is the star of Murder on the Nile, Murder of the Orient Express and Evil under the Sun is a good read, with The Mysterious Affair at Styles (the first novel Christie ever wrote) introducing ...

Agatha Christie in general

ublic what they wanted. And - to my mind - still does. Agatha Christie was a thwarted mathematician - in her world, girls didn't have the same opportunity to go to university as they do now - and her logical, calculating mind is made apparent in the very clever puzzles with which she presents us. I would recommend Agatha Christie - especially pre 1960 - to anyone who is in need of a little brain exercise and an absorbing can't-put-the-book-down read. She can still misdirect while dropping hints and clues with the best of them. And that is the mark of a great crime author. To show you what has actually happened but then skillfully drawing ...

Agatha Christie in general

ublic what they wanted. And - to my mind - still does. Agatha Christie was a thwarted mathematician - in her world, girls didn't have the same opportunity to go to university as they do now - and her logical, calculating mind is made apparent in the very clever puzzles with which she presents us. I would recommend Agatha Christie - especially pre 1960 - to anyone who is in need of a little brain exercise and an absorbing can't-put-the-book-down read. She can still misdirect while dropping hints and clues with the best of them. And that is the mark of a great crime author. To show you what has actually happened but then skillfully drawing ...

The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie

is the first Agatha Christie book published and is the first to introduce us to Hecule Poirot and Captain Hastings. It details how they met and how the “little Belgian” came to be in England. The actual case centres around the death of Mrs Inglethorp, a wealthy woman who had recently remarried, much to the ...

The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie

is the first Agatha Christie book published and is the first to introduce us to Hecule Poirot and Captain Hastings. It details how they met and how the “little Belgian” came to be in England. The actual case centres around the death of Mrs Inglethorp, a wealthy woman who had recently remarried, much to the ...