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stonepicnicking_okapiThis month, I managed 3 Agatha Christie books.
The Big Four is a Poirot and Hastings and about a secret international conspiracy of murder and mayhem. The problem reading this in 2021 is that you know it isn't a question of being secret. Treason got committed in broad daylight on Twitter by the last US president. And collusion, too. It's a question of not enough people with power being willing to put a stop to evil. And there just aren't.
The Mystery of the Blue Train [audiobook, John Moffat, who does American accents without sounding too marble-mouthed.] I have a special place in my heart for this one because I wrote a Jeeves and Wooster fusion with it, Jeeves & the Blue Train. I like it still. An arrogant American heiress takes a cursed ruby on a train trip with her lover, her husband, her husband's lover, and Hercule Poirot. What could go wrong? I am sad, of course, that Katherine Grey ended up with Derek Kettering in the end. I think if I inherited the fortune that Katherine Grey did, I'd never speak to another man again.
The Seven Dials Mystery. [audiobook, Emilia Fox, who is a solid female narrator] Very silly. It is blending a country house murder with another secret international conspiracy plot (this time with masks) where no one is what they seem. With the cast from The Secret of Chimneys, which, in my opinion, is not advertisement.
Next up is Partners in Crime a Tommy and Tuppence short story collection. I think I will take my time with it as Christie is doing parodies of different detectives with each chapter and I'll try to read some of the unfamiliar originals.
The Big Four is a Poirot and Hastings and about a secret international conspiracy of murder and mayhem. The problem reading this in 2021 is that you know it isn't a question of being secret. Treason got committed in broad daylight on Twitter by the last US president. And collusion, too. It's a question of not enough people with power being willing to put a stop to evil. And there just aren't.
The Mystery of the Blue Train [audiobook, John Moffat, who does American accents without sounding too marble-mouthed.] I have a special place in my heart for this one because I wrote a Jeeves and Wooster fusion with it, Jeeves & the Blue Train. I like it still. An arrogant American heiress takes a cursed ruby on a train trip with her lover, her husband, her husband's lover, and Hercule Poirot. What could go wrong? I am sad, of course, that Katherine Grey ended up with Derek Kettering in the end. I think if I inherited the fortune that Katherine Grey did, I'd never speak to another man again.
The Seven Dials Mystery. [audiobook, Emilia Fox, who is a solid female narrator] Very silly. It is blending a country house murder with another secret international conspiracy plot (this time with masks) where no one is what they seem. With the cast from The Secret of Chimneys, which, in my opinion, is not advertisement.
Next up is Partners in Crime a Tommy and Tuppence short story collection. I think I will take my time with it as Christie is doing parodies of different detectives with each chapter and I'll try to read some of the unfamiliar originals.
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