All of Agatha: the Quest Begins
Jan. 26th, 2021 07:57 pmInspired by an episode of the Shedunnit podcast, I've decided to embark on a life-long quest to become an Agatha Christie completist [to read her entire bibliography in publication order and for the sake of my rabid but recrudescent anglophilia, I'm going to go with UK publication date and in the case of the short story collections, the original UK table of contents].
I suspect almost all of these will be re-reads. I read Agatha Christie as a child.
So here we go. We begin where we always begin...at Styles.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1921.
Poirot's first novel. It is, in my opinion, The Tits! [read this means the best, I like tits] Here are a few observations.
-Hastings is an ass straight out of the Nigel Bruce School of Watsoning [apologies to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
luthienberen and any other Nigel Bruce fan].
-I ship Poirot and the faithful Dorcas. I may have to write Poirot giving her a little end-of-case seeing-to.
-Equating Japp with Lestrade in describing him as ferret-faced. Or maybe (like grey eyes) there are a lot of ferret-faced people in England and that's a common way of describing people.
-It'd be swell if I could get to Torquay before I die. Maybe when I finish this list as a reward.
Quotes:
"Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort."
"Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend," observed Poirot philosophically.
So next month, I'm getting Tommy and Tuppence Beresford's debut in The Secret Adversary and possibly Hasting Being an Ass the Sequel aka The Murder on the Links.
I suspect almost all of these will be re-reads. I read Agatha Christie as a child.
So here we go. We begin where we always begin...at Styles.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1921.
Poirot's first novel. It is, in my opinion, The Tits! [read this means the best, I like tits] Here are a few observations.
-Hastings is an ass straight out of the Nigel Bruce School of Watsoning [apologies to
luthienberen and any other Nigel Bruce fan].-I ship Poirot and the faithful Dorcas. I may have to write Poirot giving her a little end-of-case seeing-to.
-Equating Japp with Lestrade in describing him as ferret-faced. Or maybe (like grey eyes) there are a lot of ferret-faced people in England and that's a common way of describing people.
-It'd be swell if I could get to Torquay before I die. Maybe when I finish this list as a reward.
Quotes:
"Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort."
"Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend," observed Poirot philosophically.
So next month, I'm getting Tommy and Tuppence Beresford's debut in The Secret Adversary and possibly Hasting Being an Ass the Sequel aka The Murder on the Links.