This is the year that I will finish reading Agatha Christie, and what that means is that I have just a few left, and the ones that are left are not her best work. I long ago read And Then There Were None, along with all of the rest of the Poirot mysteries. I’ve finished Superintendent Battle and Colonel Race, and most of Marple (although I am saving Sleeping Murder for the end, because I’ve heard that it doesn’t suck). When I started figuring out […]
My little friend was a strange mix of Flemish thrift and artistic fervour.
This is a collection Miss Marple and Poirot stories repackaged and republished in 1961. There’s about a split in terms of how many of each you get. What’s great about the audiobook version is that a lot of the files are clearly pulled and recollected from other produced audiobooks, so you get a variety of different actors reading them. I think this or something similar to this would be a really interesting usage of this kind of material to see who does different things with […]
Family Matters
As much as I loved the ending, I came away thinking this should have been much better than it was. Aside from a few standalone works, the most famous being And Then There Were None (still my favorite of hers), Agatha Christie is mostly known for her two famous detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. I imagine she probably got bored of writing for them (I almost certainly know this was true of Poirot) so on this one, she decided to venture out on her own. […]
And Then There Were Satanists … The Legacy
The Legacy, by John Coyne, is a mixture of an Agatha Christie whodunnit, as members of a house party are knocked off one by one, and an occult thriller. It’s not always clear how much of the menace is due to dark magic or just plain old greed, as six people have been elected to inherit a legacy — of vast wealth, property, and possibly, supernatural power. Coyne wrote the novel as a tie-in to the successful film starring Katharine Ross and Sam Elliot (and […]