Showing posts with label *Agatha Christie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label *Agatha Christie. Show all posts
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Update + Review
La la la la la. I just realized that I have 13 months before my 5 years are up.
And I've read 14 books (ok, 14.5, but that .5 is Atlas Shrugged, so that should count for like, 6 or something). So, we all know what I'll be doing in the next 13 months, right?
BUT! When I was looking at my list to see what I had left to read, I saw a book that I had actually already read!
So, Midnight on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
I was most excited because this was the first Kindle book that I checked out from the library, on the day that OverDrive became Kindle compatible.
My full review is here, but here's the relevant bit:
I like the twist on the contained environment, but you don't get a sense of the claustrophobia that must have been there-- train cars stuck in snow with murder? There should have been more tension, but that's not Christie's style. What I find most ingenious about Christie's work isn't how her detectives solve the crimes but rather in ingenuity of her criminals. Poirot just kinda sits back and thinks through details only he's noticed. But the real genius of Christie is how intricate the murder plots are.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Two New Poirot Short Stories Found
From The Guardian:
[T]wo previously unpublished Hercule Poirot stories have emerged from a mass of family papers at Agatha Christie's favourite home.
The first story, The Mystery of the Dog's Ball, eventually became the 1937 novel Dumb Witness, in which an heiress dies from falling down the stairs after apparently tripping over her fox terrier's toy. The title of the other new find, The Capture of Cerberus, has graced another story. The original was written to complete The Labours of Hercules, a collection of Poirot's 12 last cases. The first 11 were published in the Strand magazine between 1939-40, but the last only appeared in the book published in 1947 – a new story keeping only the title from the notebook version.
They will appear in Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making, to be published by HarperCollins in September.
[T]wo previously unpublished Hercule Poirot stories have emerged from a mass of family papers at Agatha Christie's favourite home.
The first story, The Mystery of the Dog's Ball, eventually became the 1937 novel Dumb Witness, in which an heiress dies from falling down the stairs after apparently tripping over her fox terrier's toy. The title of the other new find, The Capture of Cerberus, has graced another story. The original was written to complete The Labours of Hercules, a collection of Poirot's 12 last cases. The first 11 were published in the Strand magazine between 1939-40, but the last only appeared in the book published in 1947 – a new story keeping only the title from the notebook version.
They will appear in Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making, to be published by HarperCollins in September.
