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Closed Casket by Sophie Hannah
Sophie Hannah had a fine reputation as a writer (indeed her poetry is taught in the GCSE syllabus) before she raised Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot from the dead. Generally I am not a fan of such derivative works and find them unnecessary. I do not understand why writers cannot create their own chararcter rather than …
The Six Degrees of Mort Laitner (Apologies To Kevin Bacon) by guest author Mort Laitner
While reading through Valerie Penny’s Book Reviews (She reviewed A Hebraic Obsession and wrote “A unique and important book…” And…”The story needs to be read.”)I recognized a number of my favorite authors had also been reviewed on her blog: Andrew Neiderman (my ninth grade English teacher) ghost writer for V.C. Andrews and author of The Devil’s Advocate.Mitch …
Jam and Jeopardy by Doris Davidson
I was rummaging around the library for an author I was not familiar with, when I came upon Doris Davidson and her book, Jam and Jeopardy. I have since discovered that Doris Davidson was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1922 and died in 2012. She lived there all her life. After a career as a …
Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie was born to a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon, England. She served in a hospital during the First |World War before she married and started her family in London. Although initially unsuccessful at getting her work published, in 1920, The Bodley Head press published her novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which, like this …
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie is one of my favourite authors of all time. She writes in my favourite genre and keeps the twist in the tale in every book she writes. Her books are simply marvellous and so it is with this novel ‘Why didn’t they ask Evans?’. The protragonists Bobby and Frankie are much younger than …
Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K. She was the youngest of three children. She wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan but it is for writing crime mysteries as Agatha Christie that she is best known. Evil Under The Sun is …
Peril at End House by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie, queen of crime writing, was the first crime novelist whose work of this kind I read. It remains my favourite genre. Her style of plotting is one that I like too. Peril At End House was one book in a set given to me by my mother as a Christmas present. It involves Christie’s …
The Hollow by Agatha Christie
My mother gave me a series of Agatha Christie books as a gift. Some of them I had read before, but The Hollow was new to me. I really enjoyed it. The Hollow is the country estate of flighty Lady Lucy Angkatell, who invites Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, brilliant selfish specialist Dr John Christow and his …
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