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redfiona99Re-read it on Friday.
This is not my favourite Christie, it's not even my favourite Poirot, but it's definitely a masterwork. This is where Poirot gets to show he doesn't need the cigarette ash and bits of cloth to solve a mystery as he re-investigates a murder that occured 16 years before. It's also a nice antidote to those mysteries where the detective is given more information than the reader. Here we are given exactly the same information as Poirot and allowed to try to figure out whodunit along with him.
It's not perfect, I found the characterisation of Philip Blake a bit flat, but I love all the little character details for Poirot, like when he tells himself off for thinking in nursery rhymes (again) and how he chooses to present himself to the five people present on the day of the murder.
Definitely worth a read.
The Hollow by Agatha Christie
After the Funeral by Agatha Christie
Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie
Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie
Enter a Murderer by Ngaio Marsh
Hand in Glove by Ngaio Marsh
The Nursing Home Murder by Ngaio Marsh
Clutch of Constables by Ngaio Marsh
The New Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie by Dick Riley
The Rising of the Moon by Gladys Mitchell
Not unexpectedly, I have read several of these. :)
Dry: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs (expected 39.6, found 0)
Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs (expected 32, found 0)
Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist by John Piper (expected 30.4, found 0)
Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland (expected 25.5, found 0)
Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs by Hunter S. Thompson (expected 24.5, found 0)
Life After God by Douglas Coupland (expected 23.2, found 0)
Blankets by Craig Thompson (expected 22.7, found 0)
Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin (expected 22.1, found 0)
Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine by Wayne Grudem (expected 21.3, found 0)
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (expected 20.3, found 0)
Rather more unexpectedly, I have read one of these. Hunter S. Thompson would be proud that he breaks algorithms :)
This is not my favourite Christie, it's not even my favourite Poirot, but it's definitely a masterwork. This is where Poirot gets to show he doesn't need the cigarette ash and bits of cloth to solve a mystery as he re-investigates a murder that occured 16 years before. It's also a nice antidote to those mysteries where the detective is given more information than the reader. Here we are given exactly the same information as Poirot and allowed to try to figure out whodunit along with him.
It's not perfect, I found the characterisation of Philip Blake a bit flat, but I love all the little character details for Poirot, like when he tells himself off for thinking in nursery rhymes (again) and how he chooses to present himself to the five people present on the day of the murder.
Definitely worth a read.
The Hollow by Agatha Christie
After the Funeral by Agatha Christie
Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie
Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie
Enter a Murderer by Ngaio Marsh
Hand in Glove by Ngaio Marsh
The Nursing Home Murder by Ngaio Marsh
Clutch of Constables by Ngaio Marsh
The New Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie by Dick Riley
The Rising of the Moon by Gladys Mitchell
Not unexpectedly, I have read several of these. :)
Dry: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs (expected 39.6, found 0)
Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs (expected 32, found 0)
Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist by John Piper (expected 30.4, found 0)
Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland (expected 25.5, found 0)
Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs by Hunter S. Thompson (expected 24.5, found 0)
Life After God by Douglas Coupland (expected 23.2, found 0)
Blankets by Craig Thompson (expected 22.7, found 0)
Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin (expected 22.1, found 0)
Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine by Wayne Grudem (expected 21.3, found 0)
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (expected 20.3, found 0)
Rather more unexpectedly, I have read one of these. Hunter S. Thompson would be proud that he breaks algorithms :)
