Book #341 of 2021: Towards Zero by Agatha Christie (Superintendent Battle #5) A delightfully twisty Agatha Christie piece, and a de facto end to her Superintendent Battle series. That investigator is more present here than he often is for his novels, but he still doesn’t dominate with an oversized personality as Poirot or Miss Marple …
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Book #245 of 2021: Murder Is Easy by Agatha Christie (Superintendent Battle #4) Also published under the name Easy to Kill in the U.S., this is the fourth Agatha Christie novel to feature Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard, although as usual he barely makes an appearance at all (here only showing up for a couple …
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Book #166 of 2021: Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot #15) Four detectives attend a dinner party thrown by a man bragging that he will also invite four murderers he knows who have gotten away with their crimes. At the end of the night, the host himself is dead and the investigators …
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Book #152 of 2017: The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie (Superintendent Battle #2) I’ve learned to be a bit wary of lesser-known Agatha Christie titles, but this one was pretty fun. The ending admittedly comes out of nowhere and isn’t a particularly satisfying resolution to the central plot, but that’s a few pages at …
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Book #149 of 2016: The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie (Superintendent Battle #1) More a comedy of errors than a true murder mystery, Agatha Christie’s The Secret of Chimneys relied a bit too heavily on coincidence for my liking. (It was also the first Christie book that I was able solve before the end, …
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