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All of Agatha: 4 works
Mar. 29th, 2022 06:47 pmI am in 1936 to 1937. I also got at the library the very informative The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie: A Biographical Companion to the Works of Agatha Christie by Charles Osborne. I foresee checking this out many, many times. It's just what I need.
Death in the Clouds. This is the one on the airplane with Hercule Poirot. There are some bits that remind me of The Mystery of the Blue Train because the damsel is Jane Grey instead of Katherine Grey. A satisfying tale.
Murder in Mesopotamia. This is the one about the archeological dig in Iraq with Hercule Poirot. There is an underlying premise to the solution that I simply don't believe BUT it has a very clever method of murdering which I highly approve of. And the victim is supposed to be based on Katherine Woolley who was wife of archeologist Leonard Woolley.
Cards on the Table. This is one is about bridge with Hercule Poirot. I don't know how to play bridge, but she even includes the scores. There is a good bit of xenophobia/racism related to the choice of victim and it hints at the future And then there were none in that a crazy man invites four murderers to play bridge along with four sleuths and the host himself is killed after he taunts everyone. Lots of twists. There is the introduction of Ariadne Oliver, who is Christie herself. I liked most the character of Rhoda Dawes. She will appear later in The Pale Horse married to another character in this book but I am tempted to write a short thing about her and Ariadne Oliver and her and her roommate Anne Meredith (one of the bridge players). I enjoyed this once I got past the first part. I listened to the audiobook version with Anna Massey as narrator on Youtube and the recording is a bit dodgy in places, but the narration is very well done.
Murder in the Mews and Other Stories. Four stories. The first one breaks my heart every time. Blackmail, suicide, murder, and Poirot gets on his high horse (hypocritical considering how he handed the Orient Express murder) at the end. I am very affected by the female roommate stories. The second story is Important Papers Go Missing. The third story is a typical country house murder with a quirky prop introduced. And the last is a wife poisoned on holiday which hints at Evil Under the Sun as well as Death on the Nile. Here is the audiobook version with Hugh Fraser narrating.
Next up is Bob, everyone's favourite sleuthing wire-haired terrier, in Dumb Witness.
Death in the Clouds. This is the one on the airplane with Hercule Poirot. There are some bits that remind me of The Mystery of the Blue Train because the damsel is Jane Grey instead of Katherine Grey. A satisfying tale.
Murder in Mesopotamia. This is the one about the archeological dig in Iraq with Hercule Poirot. There is an underlying premise to the solution that I simply don't believe BUT it has a very clever method of murdering which I highly approve of. And the victim is supposed to be based on Katherine Woolley who was wife of archeologist Leonard Woolley.
Cards on the Table. This is one is about bridge with Hercule Poirot. I don't know how to play bridge, but she even includes the scores. There is a good bit of xenophobia/racism related to the choice of victim and it hints at the future And then there were none in that a crazy man invites four murderers to play bridge along with four sleuths and the host himself is killed after he taunts everyone. Lots of twists. There is the introduction of Ariadne Oliver, who is Christie herself. I liked most the character of Rhoda Dawes. She will appear later in The Pale Horse married to another character in this book but I am tempted to write a short thing about her and Ariadne Oliver and her and her roommate Anne Meredith (one of the bridge players). I enjoyed this once I got past the first part. I listened to the audiobook version with Anna Massey as narrator on Youtube and the recording is a bit dodgy in places, but the narration is very well done.
Murder in the Mews and Other Stories. Four stories. The first one breaks my heart every time. Blackmail, suicide, murder, and Poirot gets on his high horse (hypocritical considering how he handed the Orient Express murder) at the end. I am very affected by the female roommate stories. The second story is Important Papers Go Missing. The third story is a typical country house murder with a quirky prop introduced. And the last is a wife poisoned on holiday which hints at Evil Under the Sun as well as Death on the Nile. Here is the audiobook version with Hugh Fraser narrating.
Next up is Bob, everyone's favourite sleuthing wire-haired terrier, in Dumb Witness.