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Jane’s Parlour by O Douglas / Anna Buchan published 1937 Linden Rise by Richmal Crompton published 1952 The Mystery of the Blue Train ...| clothesinbooks.blogspot.com
Jane’s Parlour by O Douglas / Anna Buchan published 1937 Linden Rise by Richmal Crompton published 1952 The Mystery of the Blue Train ...| clothesinbooks.blogspot.com
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Hello Everyone! I am returning to blogging on a (hopefully) semi-regular basis with my August Wrap-Up! My blogging break ended up turning into a break from most things bookish. I didn’t read much at all in August, but I’m okay with that. I was feeling a bit burnt out and it was nice to pivot […] The post August Wrap-Up first appeared on Books Are 42.| Books Are 42
I read some quality books in July, five in all of which two were part of the wonderful #NYRBWomen25 reading project, two were translated works of literature, and one was an Agatha Christie Miss Marple mystery. So, without further ado, here’s a brief look at the books in the order they appear in the picture…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
Dr. John Curran’s description of what he found over the fifty pages of Notebook 12 that comprised the planning of Hickory Dickory Dock (U.S. title: Hickory Hickory Death) suggest that Agatha didn’t have much fun writing it: “Each of the first five pages of notes for this book is headed ‘Holiday Task,’ suggesting that it was written … Continue reading THE POIROT PROJECT #11: Hickory Dickory Dock| Ah Sweet Mystery!
The real fun with my Book Club occurs when we toss aside the traditional “Read-of-the-Month” format and talk about books in general. When we read something together, we make quick work of our discu…| Ah Sweet Mystery!
Drawing on armchair detective fiction and the spoof mode of Knives Out, the film is designed to feel precisely like a game of Cluedo. As with the book, it is a safe, comfortable experience which delights in its own clichés, but if you’re looking for a laugh on a Sunday afternoon, why not? The post The Thursday Murder Club: Cluedo in film form appeared first on The Oxford Student.| The Oxford Student
🩰 Crooked House is always one of my most favorites of Agatha Christie's, with its memorable 'plot-twist.' It is one of Christie's familycide mysteries - the one I enjoyed most, due too its simplicity. It's really a simple murder, at least from our, readers', point of view. The clues are there for us to see plainly, but only a few, perhaps, could solve it due to its impossibility. Well, it's not impossible, but unprecedented. I love Christie's cheekiness in this one; and it is what made Cro...| Fanda Classiclit
In Death in the Clouds (1935), Norman Gale says to Jane Grey: “Murder […] doesn’t concern the victim and the guilty only. It affects the innocent too. You and I are innocent, but the shadow of murder has touched us. We don’t know how that shadow is going to affect our lives.” Hercule Poirot also […]| crossexaminingcrime
Today’s a read is a recent edition to the A Very Short Introduction series. I have read various ones over the years, including one on Crime Fiction (2015). This was a particularly bad reading exper…| crossexaminingcrime
Agatha Christie est sans nul doute l’une des romancières les plus appréciées de son temps. Auteure de quatre-vingt-quatre ouvrages qui constituent pour la plupart des intrigues policières, d’une vi…| des livres, des livres !
Lisa at ANZ LitLovers will be hosting a new reading event – Short Story September, running from September 1 to 30. On September 1st Lisa will set up a post where all contributions can be posted so that… More| BooksPlease
Top 5 Tuesday was created by Shanah at Bionic Book Worm, and it is now being hosted by Meeghan at Meeghan Reads. You can see the Top 5 Tuesday topics for the whole of 2025 here. Today the topic… More| BooksPlease
The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have receive…| Words And Peace
Of all the Christie novels I have reread, none has risen in my estimation as much as Sad Cypress.| Mysteries Ahoy!
Books with a High Page Count (Share those doorstop books!) I've been trying to make a point of reading some of my longer (aka high page count) books lately, and so far I'm doing a decent job of it. But here are more of the long books on my TBR shelf, just for fun!… Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday ~ Doorstopper Books→| BookWyrm Knits
Recently, for a book group I attend, we were asked to pick our five favourite mysteries written in the 1920s. Brad who blogs at Ah Sweet Mystery and John who writes at Countdown John’s Christie Journal have already posted their choices. This was not an easy task for me, as compared to the 1930s and […]| crossexaminingcrime
Emily Arundel, a wealthy spinster, injured herself falling down the stairs. The cause? Bob, her fox terrier, who left his ball at the top of the stairs. Or was it? Bob had a habit of leaving it there, but as she recovers, she begins to doubt that was what caused her fall. So she writes […]| In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel
There is one murder mystery subgenre that I will never tire of, and that’s the closed-circle mystery. If I could wave a magic wand, every single mystery novel would be set on a remote island, an isolated mountain top, or feature a group of people cut off from the world by a bizarre weather event.Continue reading "If You Loved “And Then There Were None”, Try These Modern Closed-Circle Mysteries" The post If You Loved “And Then There Were None”, Try These Modern Closed-Circle Mysterie...| A Home Is Announced
Spell the month in books: August 2025 Click on the logo to join 📚 📚 📚 I discovered this meme thanks to Marianne @ Let’s read. “The idea is to spell the month using the first letter of…| Words And Peace
Hello Everyone! First Line Friday is a weekly feature hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? Here’s how it works! Can you guess what book I’m featuring for this week’s First Line Friday post? In case you […] The post First Line Friday – 25 July 2025 first appeared on Books Are 42.| Books Are 42
Hi all: I bring you a book by a classic and very famous writer, although it was quite a surprise to me, and not one I had come across before. It is not one of her best, in my opinion, but it is a f…| Just Olga
If you come here often, you may have picked up that I love talking about movies. Sadly, the most fraught discussions tend to center around the adaptations of my very favorite subject R…| Ah Sweet Mystery!
“Your travel life has the essence of a dream . . . you are yourself, but a different self.” (Agatha Christie) Full disclosure: I’ve tried writing this article five times, and it becomes increasingl…| Ah Sweet Mystery!
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb| Fanda Classiclit
Top Ten Books with Honorifics in the Title TTT for July 15 #TopTenTuesday 📚 📚 📚 This was a fun one, though not easy. I had to go back to November 2022 to finally get my 10 titles. Click on the ti…| Words And Peace
The Sleeping Cat by Isabel Ostrander published 1926 A tall slender woman with a delicate piquant face and flame-coloured hair bene...| clothesinbooks.blogspot.com
Nobody liked Colonel Protheroe. So when he’s found dead in the vicarage study, there’s no absence of suspects in the seemingly peaceful village of St Mary Mead. In fact, Jane Marple can think of at least seven. As gossip abounds in the parlours and kitchens of the parish, everyone becomes an amateur detective. The police… Continue reading The Murder At The Vicarage by Agatha Christie – A Book Review| Swords & Spectres
On Sunday, I met with my buddies Sergio Angelini and Nick Cardillo for our latest game of list-drafting. After tackling Christie, Hitchcock, Sherlock Holmes and Charlie Chan, we decided to broaden …| Ah Sweet Mystery!
Ingots of Gold It's Raymond West's turn to tell a mysterious story when The Tuesday Night Club next re-convened. It involved his newest acqu...| klasikfanda.blogspot.com
Agatha Christie: 5 libri da leggere se non sai da quale partire. Scopri di più su Oscarmondadori.it| Oscar Mondadori
The Rose and the Yew Tree by Agatha Christie| Clothes In Books
After blogging for ten years on classic crime – with a focus on Agatha Christie, mind you – I could still forgive myself for not having written closely about . . . The Secret of Chimneys …| Ah Sweet Mystery!
If you watch vlogs, I am sure you are very familiar with these two faces: Erik Karl Anderson at Lonesome Reader, and Steve Donoghue In 2023, I watched their videos with similar tags: mid year check…| Words And Peace
London mysteries… :D :D :D :D :D The latest in HarperCollins’ series of themed collections of Agatha Christie’s short stories, this one, as the title suggests, is filled with stories set in London.…| FictionFan's Book Reviews
This week, I’ll be reviewing a selection of cat-themed short stories and books for #ReadingtheMeow2025. Most of my picks are from the Golden Age of Mystery fiction, which is set between the t…| Golden Age of Detective Fiction
What did April and May have in store for me? Below you’ll find my thoughts on six films of pretty varying quality. There is one widely acclaimed title, some noir, and a modern adaptation of a…| Mysteries Ahoy!
From my 10 titles published in 1952 original list, I started with El piano, by Carmen Laforet, unfortunately not translated, & I also added an 11th title which I read, The Palm Wine Drinkard, by Amos Tutuola, written in English by Tutuola, a Nigerian born author. Carmen Laforet’s most popular book, -this one in English, […]| Silvia Cachia
BBC Maestro has delivered a writing course taught by a speaking and moving on-screen image of Agatha Christie. Did the AI behind it succeed?| The Scholarly Kitchen
It’s easy to argue that The Big Four represents the artistic nadir of Agatha Christie’s career. It barely makes a mention in the biographies: Laura Thompson calls it “one of the worst pie…| Ah Sweet Mystery!
Hello readers! I am excited to participate in the 20 Books of Summer this year, hosted by AnnaBookBel and Emma at Words and Peace. 20 Books of Summer is a fun reading challenge in which participant…| Golden Age of Detective Fiction
When we talk about examples of the classic novel of detection being treated as a knowing parody of itself, titles oft-mentioned include The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929) or Jumping Jenny (1933) by Anthony Berkeley. But I’ve just read The Body in the Library (1942) by Agatha Christie for the first time in 25 years, and, … Continue reading #1288: “I thought they only happened in books.” – The Body in the Library (1942) by Agatha Christie| The Invisible Event
After running into many roadblocks in January, I was looking forward to February: a clean slate, my birthday month, a round number at that. But the universe had other plans, as I got sick right on …| Morgan Is Reading Again
Amidst the array of masterpieces that constitute the Christies of the 1930’s, Death in the Clouds (American title: Death in the Air) suffers by comparison. Hercule Poirot spent a large part of this…| Ah Sweet Mystery!
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, Agatha Christie’s twenty-eighth mystery and the nineteenth featuring Hercule Poirot, has the disadvantage of being surrounded by better titles. Its two predecessors are&nb…| Ah Sweet Mystery!
Having the poet’s worst predictions come true is never fun, but over this past weekend, my best-laid plans for a Christie reunion “gang aft very very agley” indeed! When my pal Christophe…| Ah Sweet Mystery!
AN ADAPTED CONVERGENCE: The BBC’s Towards Zero (NOTE: This is a SPOILER-FREE review of the recent BBC adaptation. I have also refrained from any major spoilers of the book, so make yourselves at ho…| Ah Sweet Mystery!
Below are my thoughts on the TV and films I watched this month that can be said to fall within the mystery or crime genres (or that are close enough that I think there’s crossover appeal). Th…| Mysteries Ahoy!
Three-Act Tragedy is the first of nine Poirot novels to appear back-to-back in the latter half of the 1930’s. (Between 1931 -38, there were twelve in total.) It was an extraordinary decade for…| Ah Sweet Mystery!
For the past couple of years, Fanda @Classiclit has been hosting an Agatha Christie short story readalong. The idea is to read two AC short stories each month (you can see her selections for each m…| This Reading Life
Last week, I explained how circumstances led me to revisit Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple, the series that starred Joan Hickson and which aired on the BBC from 1986 to 1992. I shared my th…| Ah Sweet Mystery!
A week or so ago, I was texting back and forth with my friends (and fellow Christie fanatics) Jeff and Chris. It was just after the dinner hour, and Jeff informed us that he was settling down to wa…| Ah Sweet Mystery!
This week, as the UK weathers Storm Éowyn, we look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, direct you to the Agatha Christie Short Stories…| Book Jotter
The order in which I read the sixty-six mystery novels of Agatha Christie was a total crapshoot, based largely on what cover or blurb struck my teenaged fancy. I couldn’t recite my reading chronolo…| Ah Sweet Mystery!
Discover the top 10 Agatha Christie mysteries that every fan should read and the four classic Agatha Christie mysteries I'd skip!| A Home Is Announced
This week we look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, announce the Hundred Years Hence Reading Challenge along with several others, fo…| Book Jotter
When it comes to the high seas, I prefer my voyages to be vicarious. I have been known to get seasick on a slow ferry. My antipathy toward those flashy floating malls they call “luxury liners” is b…| Ah Sweet Mystery!
It’s New Year’s Eve, the final day of a most, er, dramatic year, and this is my 79th and final post of 2024. It’s also the time when some of my fellow bloggers review their accomplishmen…| Ah Sweet Mystery!
I picked my ten favourite crime and detective novels published in the 1930s a little while ago for my online book club, but I only do a Ten Favourite… list every four months or so and thus am…| The Invisible Event
Here's my Christmas reading taster menu, from the top of my TBR pile. Something to fill in deadly gaps between TV Xmas Specials.| Charles Harris author
“As soon as I heard you were coming over, I said to myself: Something will arise. As in former days, we will hunt together, we two. But if so, it must be no common affair. It must be something – so…| Ah Sweet Mystery!
As per tradition, I’m starting the yearly recap posts with next year’s resolutions! I love coming up with these resolutions, even if I don’t fulfil all of them. Now, without furth…| Morgan Is Reading Again
That’s right, folks, my birthday is coming! Okay, the actual date is a week from today. A passel of famous artistic folk consider themselves lucky to share the day with me, including Ludwig v…| Ah Sweet Mystery!
Easy to Kill was first serialized during the winter of 1938, around the time that Hercule Poirot’s Christmas was published. It was released as a novel the following summer, sharing the publication year with one of Christie’s most famous stories, And Then There Were None. That seemed like a fertile setting for a potential quality … Continue reading "Easy to Kill (Murder is Easy) – Agatha Christie (1939)"| The Green Capsule
Dive into 25 unsolved mysteries that will leave you guessing! Explore baffling cases and secrets the world still can't explain.| List25
Another surprise episode of my increasingly-irregular podcast In GAD We Trust, this time featuring Mark Aldridge in discussion about his new book, Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedne…| The Invisible Event
If this had been an old house, with creaking wood, and dark shadows, and heavily panelled walls, there might have been an eerie feeling. But this house was the essence of modernity. There were no dark corners – no possible sliding panels – … Continue reading →| Past Offences: Classic crime, thrillers and mystery book reviews
Every month at Past Offences an intrepid band of bloggers proffers their opinions on a particular year on crime fiction. I call it Crimes of the Century. The stakes were high this time. Regular pla…| Past Offences: Classic crime, thrillers and mystery book reviews
I’ve written many times here about my issues with TV and movie adaptations of existing stories. Short synopsis: I usually find them lacking. Especially the more recent attempts. Extra especia…| Logos con carne
