Category: #3GrandDames

Now that we have covered the majority of Agatha Christie’s books, we move on to Christie’s contemporary Ngaio Marsh (1895-1982). Marsh wrote 32 novels, each featuring Roderick Alleyn (pronounced Allen), who starts out as Chief …

The Agatha Christie wrote her most popular and creepiest book in 1939’s And Then There Were None. Six men and two women get invitations to Soldier Island from a U. N. Owen, each being offered …

Tommy and Tuppence have grown up, and now in their 70s, they settle in the house formerly known as The Swallows’ Nest and now The Laurels in the area of Hollow Key in Postern of …

Almost ready to retire, Tommy decides he needs to visit his Aunt Ada in her nursing home, so he and Tuppence go to Sunny Ridge, where they get started on a new mystery in Agatha …

We last saw Tommy and Tuppence in 1929’s Partners in Crime, which ended with the announcement that Tuppence was ready to enter their biggest adventure yet, having a baby. Now, in 1941’s N or M?, …

aAfter seven years of marriage, Tuppence is finding life “satisfying but dull,” as Agatha Christie’s Partners in Crime opens. That delights Mr. Carter, the high ranking intelligence official whom we first met in The Secret …

Often when walking down the street, we catch snatches of conversation from those we pass, and Agatha Christie weaves a whole mystery around a single name overheard on the street in her second novel, The …

Agatha Christie is most famous for her characters of Hercules Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, but she wrote a number of novels featuring other characters, including five with Tommy and Tuppence, the Young Adventurers. Unlike …

Sleeping Murder, published shortly after Agatha Christie’s death, in 1976, suits the alternate title, Murder in Retrospect, in Miss Marple’s exploration of a cold case. Gwenda Reed has just moved to England from New Zealand, …

“The code word is Nemesis.” Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple sees in the newspaper that her millionaire friend from A Caribbean Mystery, Mr. Rafiel, has died, and she gets a letter from his solicitor to visit …