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Continue reading →: Reading Three Act Tragedy
When the Reverend Babbington dies suddenly at a cocktail party, his death is dismissed as natural. But when another sudden death occurs days later, Poirot gets involved.
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Continue reading →: Reading Lord Edgware Dies
When Lord Edgware is murdered, his estranged wife, who visited him that very evening, becomes the primary suspect. But she was dining with friends and couldn’t possibly have done it, could she?
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Continue reading →: Reading Peril At End House
Peril At End House isn’t as famous as Murder On The Orient Express or as notorious as The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, but Peril At End House is widely lauded as one of Agatha Christie’s very best Poirot novels.
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Continue reading →: Reading The Mystery Of The Blue Train
He married her for money. She married him for status. He’s having an affair. She’s having an affair. But then Ruth Kettering is murdered aboard the Blue Train. And just like that, Hercule Poirot is on the case.
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Continue reading →: Reading The Big Four
It’s almost universally derided as one of the weakest of all the Poirot novels and one that the author herself called “rotten”. But is it really as bad as all that? It’s Agatha Christie, after all. How bad can The Big Four be?
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Continue reading →: Reading The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd
Hercule Poirot is retired and living quite happily in a rural country village. But he won’t stay retired for long, with the village’s two wealthiest citizens dying only hours apart.
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Continue reading →: Reading The Murder On The Links
When he arrives too late to save his newest client, Poirot vows to see the case through. But he’ll have to wade through a tangle mess of family secrets to do it.
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Continue reading →: Reading The Mysterious Affair At Styles
When Emily Inglethorp is poisoned, suspicion immediately falls upon her step-son, John. Enter former police chief Hercule Poirot, in Agatha Christie’s first published novel and the first in my Year With Agatha Christie reading challenge.
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Continue reading →: My Year With Agatha Christie
Can someone completely new to the world of Agatha Christie and Hercule Poirot read the entire Poirot library in a year?
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Continue reading →: An Audiobook Narrator Completely Altered A Classic For Me
I think most people, if they stop to think about it, understand that when you listen to an audio book you’re not really hearing the author’s book. What you’re actually hearing is the narrators interpretation of the author’s book. Hopefully, that interpretation falls in line with the author’s vision–and the…