Category: #3GrandDames

In Peril at End House by Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot once again tries to take a holiday, only to have murder follow him on his trip. While having lunch with Captain Hastings in the garden …

Agatha Christie wrote thirteen plays throughout her career, often turning those plays into novels, but her first play remained in play form until 1998, when Charles Osborne adapted Black Coffee into the form of a novel. …

Katherine Grey has come into a large inheritance so decides to go to the French Riviera with the upper crust of British society for the winter and takes the Blue Train to Nice, where she …

A cabal of four important people from around the globe are trying to take over the world by fomenting chaos, giving them room to step in, in Agatha Christie’s The Big Four, and it is …

Despite its general recognition now as the crowning achievement of Agatha Christie’s career (in 2013 the Crime Writers Association of Britain voted it as the greatest mystery novel ever), when The Murder of Roger Ackroyd came …

If you look up Poirot Investigates Agatha Christie in the reviews on Amazon, you will find a wide variety of stories listed as being part of this short story book, so to clarify, this review …

Agatha Christie introduced her Belgian detective Hercules Poirot to great acclaim in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, so she followed up the book in The Murder on the Links with great success as well. The …

Written in 1920 and set during the First World War, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie’s first book, has real resonance for today’s reading audience. The narrator, Lt. Arthur Hastings, injured in the war …

It’s no secret that I read a lot of mysteries, especially cozies, many of them ongoing series. Sometimes, though, it is worth it to look back at the people who shaped the genre. In this …