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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 …
Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (nee) Miller was born to a wealthy upper middle class family in Torquay, Devon in the south-west of England on 15 September 1890 and died on 12 January 1976. She is best known as a crime novelist but she also wrote short stories, plays and six romances under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. …
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 …
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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