Book #52 of 2024: Nemesis by Agatha Christie (Miss Marple #12) This 1971 title was the last Miss Marple novel that author Agatha Christie ever wrote, although Sleeping Murder, published posthumously in 1976, was the final entry in the series to be released. It functions as a fairly direct sequel to #9 A Caribbean Mystery, …
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Book Review: At Bertram’s Hotel by Agatha Christie
Book #122 of 2023: At Bertram’s Hotel by Agatha Christie (Miss Marple #11) This… is not a mystery. It’s not even a spy thriller or an in-depth character study, two other genres where author Agatha Christie dabbles on occasion. Instead it’s the story of a police inspector immediately suspecting an outlandish criminal conspiracy involving the …
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Book Review: A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie
Book #111 of 2023: A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie (Miss Marple #10) I always find it somewhat absurd when one of author Agatha Christie’s detective characters simply happens to stumble over a murder, but this premise has to be in the running for among her most ludicrous. Whilst on vacation, Miss Marple talks to …
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Book Review: The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side by Agatha Christie
Book #88 of 2023: The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side by Agatha Christie (Miss Marple #9) This 1962 novel, published in the U.S. as simply The Mirror Crack’d, offers a fun little murder mystery that’s kept me guessing throughout. No one seems to have had any motive that could account for the neighborhood woman’s …
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Book Review: Double Sin and Other Stories by Agatha Christie
Book #77 of 2023: Double Sin and Other Stories by Agatha Christie An odd little collection, published in 1961 (and then only in the US) but including stories from as far back as 1925. Three of the eight entries had even been previously released in other Agatha Christie volumes — “The Last Seance” in 1933’s …
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Book Review: The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and a Selection of Entrées by Agatha Christie
Book #55 of 2023: The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and a Selection of Entrées by Agatha Christie The criteria for inclusion in author Agatha Christie’s short story collections is often somewhat haphazard, and in the case of this 1960 publication, it turns out that I’ve read four of the six entries elsewhere already (or …
Book Review: 4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie
Book #22 of 2023: 4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie (Miss Marple #8) A most delightful little mystery. I enjoy how author Agatha Christie plays with her usual formulae in this one, while still treating readers fairly with the facts and sticking firmly within the grand whodunnit tradition. As suggested by the novel’s rather exclamatory …
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Book Review: A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie
Book #166 of 2022: A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie (Miss Marple #7) Another standard and somewhat forgettable / interchangeable Agatha Christie mystery, taking its title from the old nursery rhyme about the four and twenty blackbirds. As usual with this author, those lines of doggerel are soon linked with a series of …
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Book Review: They Do It with Mirrors by Agatha Christie
Book #131 of 2022: They Do It with Mirrors by Agatha Christie (Miss Marple #6) In this novel, also published under the title Murder with Mirrors, the elderly Miss Jane Marple goes to visit a childhood friend whose sister reports feeling vaguely worried about her situation, in part because the woman’s latest husband has turned …
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Book Review: Three Blind Mice and Other Stories by Agatha Christie
Book #83 of 2022: Three Blind Mice and Other Stories by Agatha Christie Some of these nine entries are better than others, but overall, they represent a strong if eclectic collection of author Agatha Christie’s mystery offerings. With four tales featuring Miss Jane Marple, three involving Hercule Poirot, and even one with her distinctly rarer …
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