‘Giants’ Bread’ (1930) a tragedy of love, creative drive
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): We take a temporary break from sleuthing to examine Agatha Christie’s excellent first Mary Westmacott novel.
Books
‘Giants’ Bread’ (1930) a tragedy of love, creative drive
‘Elephants Can Remember’ (1972) easy to forget
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): This isn’t a good novel, yet it’s fascinating when one considers Christie suffered from dementia.
Marple unleashed like a bloodhound in ‘Nemesis’ (1971)
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): The penultimate Miss Marple novel is overwritten and unlikely in parts, but it’s solvable and enjoyable.
‘Unexpected Guest’ (1999) a basic but enjoyable puzzle
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Charles Osborne’s second novelization of an Agatha Christie play showcases her mystery-puzzle plotting mastery.
‘Passenger to Frankfurt’ (1970) is a globe-trotting mess
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Late in her career, Agatha Christie reaches a dubious achievement: a novel that’s worse than “The Big Four.”
Christie chips in on Detection Club’s ‘Floating Admiral’ (1931)
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): This fascinating but failed experiment finds 14 authors handing off a baton as they choose their own adventure.
‘Endless Night’ (1967) shows the ‘happily ever after’ … not so happily
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Rightly labeled as one of Christie’s “horror” novels, “Endless Night” is light on killings, but drenched in foreboding.
‘A Murder is Announced’ (1950) a vintage ‘cozy mystery’
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Agatha Christie didn’t write as many cozy village murder mysteries as the stereotype suggests. But this is one of them.
T&T still have game in ‘By the Pricking of My Thumbs’ (1968)
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Agatha Christie returns to the spousal sleuths after a 27-year hiatus, and she hasn’t forgotten how to write them.
‘And Then There Were None’ (1939) an early slasher classic
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Widely regarded as one of Christie’s best novels, it deserves more credit as a progenitor of slasher horror.