This is a weird one. Apparently (I looked this up, because the book was so weird) Christie wrote a series of short stories about Poirot for some magazine and these stories were mashed together into this book. You can sort of tell that something like this is up, because the mashing didn't work all...
يجب أن أعترف أن ضيق أفقي هو مامنعني من دخول عالم أجاثا كريستيفمنذ صغري لم تبهرني أغلفة قصصها المترجمة للعربيةكما أن معرفة والدي لافلامها وقراءة والدتي لروايتها منذ الصغر جعلني أشعر أن الغموض بهذه القصص سيكون "موضة قديمة" وألغازها ستكون مكشوفة ليناهيك عن مقولة "لابد أن الخادم هو من فعلها.. كقصص أج...
There are some Authors whose books you read and think "How did they think of that?" Their stories are so unique. Agatha Christie is one such author and Sleeping Murder is one such book that keeps you in a constant state of excitement with all its twists and turns all the while wowing you with i...
I do not like to write reviews of whodunits: you can't do justice to the analysis without explaining what happened in detail, but then it spoils the story for whoever has not read it. So, for those mystery lovers who have not read The Murder on the Orient Express so far, I will post a single lin...
If you are looking for mystery stories with slowly growing suspense and clever plot twists, then Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories is the perfect book for you. Written by Agatha Christie, one of the most renowned and best-selling authors of all time, the book is an unique and interesting co...
It is Autumn, this week there have been storm clouds in the sky and wind pulling leaves off branches. I am preparing for Halloween and hopefully a horde of trick or treaters who will be knocking on doors in the near future. In my preparation, I was also listening to Christie’s ‘Hallowe’en Party.’...
أفضل ما يمكن قوله أنها رواية لم تنل ما تستحقّ من الشهرة.. فقد تكون جميع أعمال أغاثا كريستي معروفةً على ناطقٍ واسعٍ بطبيعة الحال، إلا أن ركوب التيار تحديداً لم تلقى تقديراً خاصاً من النقاد. ربما يكون ذوقي في الروايات غير اعتياديٍّ إلى حد ما، لكن بالنسبة لي... فإن هذه الرواية هي أفضل أعمال أغاثا كر...
Knowing whodunit, rereading is still pleasure. Christie cleverly complicates and confounds. Christie, at her best, makes stereotypical eccentrics believable, plucks essential clues, weaves questionable motivations and messy realisms to confound the reader before extricating the solution. Hotel gu...
The people of St. Mary Mead get hold of some juicy gossip when a body of an unknown young blonde woman is found in the library of the respectable Bantrys. As the suspicion falls on Colonel Bantry, Mrs. Bantry calls on Miss Marple to help solve this perplexing case. Investigations performed by Col...
Hickory Dickory Dock was first published in the UK in 1955 and was the first full length story to feature Hercule Poirot's ultra-efficient secretary Miss Felicity Lemon, although she had previously appeared in some of short stories featuring the Belgium detective.When Miss Lemon makes an uncharac...
What: paperbackWhat else: First person narrativeWherefore: it was on Mount TBR, and my Kindle was acting up Hastings: "I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up."Poirot has semi-retired, but has discovered he is no better suited to the state than Holmes is said to h...
Death in the Air (aka Death in the Clouds) is another fine Agatha Christie outing. In this one, the murder takes place right under Hercule Poirot's airsick nose. Yes, fortunately for the killer, Poirot's famous little grey cells were sleeping their way across the Channel in order that he might no...
You might find this difficult to believe, but until this weekend I'd never knowingly read an Agatha Christie novel.I was in a youth hostel, had finished the books I'd taken and had to pick from their shelves.Having chosen and then decided against several of the more likely options, I came across ...
Dead Man’s Folly I think I have read twice before – and have seen a TV adaptation too – so maybe it was no real surprise that I began to remember things after about 60 pages. It all remained very muddled in my head though and so I had to read on to see what I had remembered correctly. In Dead Man...
1930, #1 Miss Jane Marple, St. Mary Mead, rural Englandwise elderly spinster lady solves a tricky murder; truly deserves the label "classic cosy". Tame, quiet, and sweet, but there are some interesting edges to it as well. Not to be missed. When Colonel Protheroe, irascible church deacon and Big ...
There is something just extra awesome about still finding joy in reading an author who passed away before I was born and wrote over sixty detective novels –it is amazing how I can always count on her to give me a quick, engrossing and complex read no matter which characters or twist she uses and ...
“I learned (what I suppose I really knew already) that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back—that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street, isn’t it?” I put a spoiler warning on this post not so much because I will discuss the details of the p...
لغز القطار الأزرق كالكثيرين، لأجاثا كريستي في مخيلتي مذاق المراهقة، عندما كنت أقرؤها في عصريات صيف بعيد، محاولاً بدأب معرفة القاتل، قبل أن يتوصل إليه هرقل بوارو، وهو مالم أفلح به أبداً، لأن أجاثا لم تكن عادلة، كانت تبقي أهم الخيوط بين يديها، لهذا لم تكن أجاثا كريستي مفضلة لدي في تلكم المرحلة، ب...
1931, apa MURDER AT HAZELMOOR; Miss Emily Trefussis, Charles Enderby, reporter, and Inspector Narracott, the little town of Sittaford, near Dartmoor Prison. Cranky (but wealthy) Captain Trevelyan is murdered during a snowstorm and while many suspects have motive, they didn't have the opportunity....
I must have read this as a teenager in Devon during the 1970s but the fact that it was so obviously set down the road on the edge of Dartmoor completely passed me by at the time. I did see Agatha Christie in her garden at Greenway while on a boat trip down the river Dart from Totnes around that ...
I finished reading this book two days ago. I read it in a little more than a day, ignoring any and all chores that I could, just so I could keep reading...I love it when a book grips me that much.I have read this book before, but the last time I read it, I was 16...that was 21 years ago. I rememb...
My First Affair with Hercule Poirot(A Book Review of Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affairs at Styles)Written as an outcome of a bet in which “the reader would not be able to spot the criminal”, Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affair of Styles, published in 1921, is the first published work by...
Well I now have a Hercule Poirot book I liked less than The Big Four and Mystery of the Blue Train. The beginning of the book was actually very good. Agatha Christie sets the stage by allowing readers into the home of Emily Arundell. Miss Arundell has never married. She has three relations left i...
Convergere VERSO L’ORA ZEROUn gruppo raccolto attorno al caminetto è composto da avvocati e uomini di legge. “Gli esseri umani … Ce ne sono di tutti i generi, di tutte le qualità, di tutte le forme, alcuni hanno cervello, molti ne sono privi …”Tutti sono attenti a seguire l’evolversi degli eventi...
"‘George,’ he called, ‘please take my heavy tweed suit and my dinner jacket and trousers to the cleaners. I must have them back by Friday, as I am going to the Country for the Weekend.’ He made it sound like the Steppes of Central Asia and for a lifetime."Tweed? No, I cannot....no to Poirot in tw...
http://njkinny.blogspot.in/2014/07/bo...When Nurse Leatheran is called on to look after Loiuse, the wife of Dr. Leidner who is busy in the excavation activities going on at the Hassanieh dig in Iraq, she finds the atmosphere there to be filled with tension and one of impending doom. "...I dont ...
Agatha Christie, one of the greatest mystery writers of all time - some would say the greatest - was one author whose works I found too creepy to read when I was a kid. (I have to blame this on my sis; she used to feed me Christie's stories when we were alone in our room at night with the lights ...
Well this one was not as well done as Death on the Nile. I think it was because it was pretty obvious after one character's utterance who did the crime in this one.Unlike with some other Poirot novels, Hercule really doesn't step up to the plate until about half way through the book. The first ha...
Endless Night was one of Agatha Christie's own favourite novels, and one which received the most critical acclaim on its publication in 1967. It is her 58th detective novel. The title is a reference to William Blake's "Auguries of Innocence","Every night and every morn,Some to misery are born,Eve...
Esta crítica puedes encontrarla en: http://www.elblogdeivanrumar.com/2014...No es oro todo lo que reluceUna de mis escritoras favoritas es Agatha Christie, pero me ocurre algo extraño con ella. Le perdono cosas que no les perdonaría a mis otros autores favoritos. John Irving o Andrzej Sapkowski, ...
A few of my reviews are a bit later than I would like because my foot is suffering from a bad case of mummy rot [are their any good cases of mummy rot? -ed]. Why is my personal health relevant to this review? Because I was stricken with plague while within spitting distance of the Nile. And whi...
In this anthology of four plays, I've read two of them as novels. I always find it interesting to see what's been changed when stories are brought into a different format. And Then There Were None is one of the notoriously different stories on stage, since it was assumed that the novel's ending w...
Alas, Mrs. McGinty; we hardly knew you.Really. I mean that. She was a widow, a woman who cleaned houses and took in lodgers to make ends meet; had a niece whom she saw at holidays, and was perhaps a bit of a nosy parker; nothing extraordinary to fill the obituary. When Inspector Spence visits the...
My pathway to this book, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side was circuitous. Last Monday, I read Beyond the Looking Glass: Narcissism and Female Stardom in Studio-Era Hollywood by Ana Salzburg and there was a chapter on Gene Tierney. Salzburg notes that nowadays Tierney is mainly remembered for...
My first anthology of the year, and my first Christie or Poirot anthology. It also marks the start of a run of four anthologies in my reading list. Anthologies are a difficult thing to get right. Apart from the need to manage the theme of the anthology, there's nearly always a couple of weaker st...
Pusseldeckare är inget jag skulle säga att jag är välbekant med sedan tidigare, vilket var vad som sporrade mig att vilja läsa något av Agatha Christie för vad kan vara bättre än att börja med en av författarna som var med och grundade genren.Bookmark förlag har för en tid sedan börjat ge ut någr...
"Ninho de Vespas": Neste conto descobrimos que Hercule Poirot não é só bom a desvendar crimes mas também a antecipá-los e a impedir que aconteçam. Muito bom."O Caso do Baile-Vitória": Um conto típico de Hercule Poirot onde as deduções estão sempre corretas e o crime é resolvido num abrir e fechar...
I started reading Agatha Christie novels when I was in middle school. My first book was, surprisingly, “Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?“, which didn’t have Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple or even Tommy and Tuppence. It was a great mystery and pulled me into reading more Christie. After reading a bunch o...
1950, apa The Mousetrap, published in US only, includes the story that was the basis for her most famous play and 8 other stories of all styles and detectives. Christie used several of them as basis for later novels that make these original short stories seem rather pastel in comparison. Several ...
The Incredible Theft (Der unglaubliche Diebstahl der Bomberpläne) [April] 43 SeitenWho stole the plans of a new bomber from the home of a Cabinet minister?Inhalt und Meinung:Puh, wenn man sowas nicht immer gleich macht... Und dann auch noch von Englisch auf Deutsch übersetzten...Aus dem Büro eine...
Upon rereading this books (some ten years after initially doing so) I had vague recollections of who the "bad guy" was, how some of the arcs played out, and that I loved the book!Even though I remembered the gist of who was good and who was bad, I was still questioning myself, "Wait, *IS* that ch...
От: http://slovoyadets.blogspot.com/И пак... Агата Кристи. Тъкмо бях решил, че след "Убийство в Ориент Експрес" ще си подбера нещо съвсем различно, когато получих препоръка за тази книга. В предната нещата си бяха "Поаро - това, Поаро - онова". И повечето хора са си така - "Поаро - това, Поаро - ...
I was pleasantly surprised by this one.Let's get the bad stuff out of the way first. It's not very plausible at all. Somehow we have two spies and three murderers in the same block of apartment buildings. Somehow all these people co-exist independently not knowing of each other's existence. A...
http://www.njkinnysblog.com/2015/06/b...“Six people were thinking of Rosemary Barton who had died nearly a year ago...” Rosemary Barton, a most beautiful, charming albeit wool headed wealthy woman dies mysteriously by cyanide poisoning on her birthday. Police determine her death to be suicide and...
Today’s post is on “Five Little Pigs” by Agatha Christie also called Murder in Retrospect. It is the 24th Hercule Poirot novel, it is 240 pages long, and is published by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. The cover has a hand with a paint brush in it and fades into a bright orange. The intended re...
Early in this novel a character muses about how best to portray the Witches in a production of ‘Macbeth’. It’s his contention that rather than pushing up the weirdness so the sisters become something which could feasibly fit into a pantomime, they are instead portrayed as the kind of normal – if ...
A fun collection of twelve mini-mysteries with one common theme. Poirot considers him a modern Hercules, in the sense that he and his namesake both dedicate their lives to the removal of certain pests. So Poirot decided that these, the last cases before his retirement, should have some metaphoric...
Rating: 3.5/5This review can also be found on my blog Musings of a BibliophileA short story collection concocted by one of my favourite childhood authors Dame Agatha Christie seemed like the perfect book to curl up in bed with this Christmas holiday.Christie refers herself as 'the chef' of this ...
Up until the ending, I really did not understand why this book is widely considered to be the best (or at least the top five) of Christie’s books. Then it happened, and I was like WHAT!?Actually it was more like a double what, because not only was it a really daring ending, especially for being p...
When Reverend Stephen Babbington dies after consuming a cocktail, the final analysis is that he died of a fit, ruling out murder. That is until a second death takes place in a manner almost identical. Three amateur detectives take the stage: Sir Charles Cartwright, a former actor, his friend Mr. ...
Todos os contos usam de narrador impessoal, se me lembro bem, e não há grandes discrepâncias na escrita de um para o outro, de forma que é melhor agrupar contos que merecem os mesmos comentários, já que não vou destrinchar a história de nenhum deles:Uma piada incomumO caso da fita métricaO caso d...
“Đàn ông thường phát cuồng vì cặp đùi mịn màng của phụ nữ, nhưng lạ chưa, trong thoáng chốc chúng đã trở thành những dải ngọc bạc màu…Một chút ít, một tí tẹo của cái giống như giấc mơ, và ở tận cùng sẽ là cái chết…”Lời nói tưởng chừng như vô nghĩa và hầu như không gợi chút đáng sợ nào của nhân vậ...
This was my second book by Agatha Christie and I found it as amazing as the first book that I read, her books don’t ever get boring.The story revolves around a man named Luke Fitzwilliam who emerged back from the Middle East and is currently living as a retired policeman. As he arrived to England...
THE LISTERDALE MYSTERY, Agatha Christie1934, sweet, slightly mysterious stories from Christie, most originally published in magazines in 1920s; very old-fashioned style, but still gently entertaining. Three-and-one-half-stars.[date= when first published]1924 02tThe Girl in the Train— sweet spy ta...
Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it! My part of death, no one so true Did share it.(Act II, Scene IV of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night)Di...
Seven Dials is Christie's subversion of the 1920s style thriller, only with a plucky female heroine and a subtle commentary on English society. A manor murder, a secret society, a slummy club in the East End, and international espionage that make it seem artificially complicated, but it was enjo...
This is an old favorite that never disappoints. I have found that Agatha Christie's plots are so complicated and the clues so complex that I have a hard time remembering who actually was guilty. I can read most of her books every 10 years or so and enjoy them all over again. Of course, there a...
Love it. I haven’t even finished it, only read the first two of the book’s 12 stories, but I know the rest will be just as delightful. Not surprising, really. The back blurb states that there are two billion copies of Christie’s books in print, and that was written in 1984. Obviously, I’m not the...
لم تكن (فيكتوريا جونز) أكثر من فتاة إنجليزية مسالمة,ثرثارة,تتنفس الكذب وتهوى تأليف القصص والحكايات الغير حقيقية.كانت وحيدة وعزباء,بلا حبيب وبلا عمل..لذا حين قابلت ذلك الشاب الوسيم مصادفةً في الحديقة هوى له قلبها وأيقنت أنها وجدت حب حياتها..غير أن الشاب قد تقرر سفره بعد ساعات إلى بغداد لعملٍ ما,أث...
This is one of Dame Agatha's weakest mysteries. At least I think so now (I don't have a record of how I rated it the first time I read it). And I say that because Christie is one of the few mystery writers who can fool me almost every time. It doesn't matter how many times I've read her storie...
Mary Westmacott’s books are like a cup of good old strong English tea in the afternoon. And this is my sixth ‘cup’, I mean book! Several reviewers and many other readers believe that her books are mere love stories which are bittersweet; however I think that it is not an accurate description of ...
In this second Hercule Poirot story, Poirot is moaning that crime isn't what it used to be, criminals are no longer worthy of this investigative prowess. Luckily, that very same day a letter arrives requesting his help in France. Paul Renauld is in fear of his life and wishes to engage Poirot. It...
