Showing posts with label Christie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christie. Show all posts

Thursday, September 18, 2025

The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie

 Miss Marple is called in to solve a murder. She actually has a small role in the story, which is narrated by a man on the scene (not one of the suspects). Marple appears a few pages before the end. It's a decent story but not among Christie's best in my opinion.

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie

 Excellent classic Christie with Poirot using the little gray cells to solve a murder in retrospect. I got some of the mystery figured out but not all of it. Recomended.

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

 Haven't been keeping up with this log. This is a re-read of a book I read many years ago. Solid Christie.

Saturday, August 25, 2018

Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie

Miss Marple's last case. A solid, classic Christie and a good read, but nothing special.

Sunday, October 26, 2014

Death in the Air by Agatha Christie

Listened to this on audio while running. Not her best... the method of the murder is unnecessarily elaborate and the motive a little convoluted.

Sunday, July 27, 2008

The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie

This book is out of the ordinary for a Christie work, and one of her better efforts. Christie is not great literature, but there is more depth to her better books than she is usually given credit for, and this book is a case in particular.

Besides being a decent mystery, the book is also a meditation on the nature of evil. Is evil flashy and flamboyant, or small and mean, or perhaps both? Does supernatural evil really exist in the universe? Is the occult genuinely evil and is it effective? These and other similar questions are theme of the work.