Tag Archives: Miss Marple

Tuesday Night Bloggers: Helen’s Month: Agatha Christie’s Sleeping Murder (1976)

Posted on May 9, 2017 by

Earlier last month one of our founder Tuesday Night Bloggers members, Helen Szamuely, died and as a tribute to her the Tuesday Night Bloggers are featuring posts this month on some of her great interests in life: Europe, History and … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Night Blogger: A is for April… and Anything Goes: Accidental and Amateur Sleuths – What’s the Difference?

Posted on April 11, 2017 by

Ever keen to try something new, the Tuesday Night Bloggers have gone for a different type of theme this month: the letter A. Be it a book title, author, country or a more abstract theme; it all goes, as long … Continue reading →

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Agatha Christie on Screen (2016) by Mark Aldridge

Posted on March 22, 2017 by

This has been a book I have been dipping into over the past few months and for anyone who is interested in film and TV adaptations of Agatha Christie’s work then this is certainly the book to buy. It covers … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Night Bloggers: Favourite Sleuths First Outings

Posted on January 17, 2017 by

Regular readers will be aware that this month the Tuesday Night bloggers are looking at crime fiction firsts and so far we have had a great selection of posts with bloggers looking at first novels in series and their own … Continue reading →

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Christie Firsts

Posted on September 15, 2016 by

Today is Agatha Christie’s 126th birthday and it is also 100 years since the introduction of Hercule Poirot and to mark the occasion I decided (probably very foolishly) to suggest to new Christie readers the novels which best introduce Poirot, … Continue reading →

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The Moving Finger (1943) by Agatha Christie in which a Female Rationalist is Greatly Maligned

Posted on September 9, 2016 by

‘So sweet and funny and old-world. You just can’t think of anything nasty happening here, can you?’ Vintage Mystery Scavenger Hunt Item: Spider Web This is another Christie re-read and to date I have normally been re-reading Christies which I … Continue reading →

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4:50 from Paddington (1957) by Agatha Christie

Posted on May 6, 2016 by

Vintage Mystery Scavenger Hunt Item: Doctor (Back Cover) This is my first re-read of my blog and is my entry into Past Offences’ Crimes of the Century Monthly Challenge. This is also a Miss Marple adventure I have a soft … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Night Bloggers: Mayo and Miss Marple Under the Microscope

Posted on April 12, 2016 by

Last week I reviewed one of Asey Mayo’s later cases, Punch with Care (1946), which I then compared with The Iron Clew (1947), which Phoebe Atwood Taylor wrote under the penname, Alice Tilton. This week though I am focusing on … Continue reading →

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Meet a Miss Marple in Training in Ianthe Jerrold’s Let Him Lie (1940)

Posted on December 28, 2015 by

Source: Review Copy Earlier this year I reviewed the first of a pair of novels Jerrold wrote, called The Studio Crime (1929), featuring her amateur, slightly larger than life detective, John Christmas. I thoroughly enjoyed this and it won my August … Continue reading →

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Agatha Christie: Mistress of Mystery (1967) by G. C. Ramsey

Posted on November 11, 2015 by

This was a surprise find on my latest wanderings around my local charity shops and since it involved Agatha Christie and was inexpensive I couldn’t resist adding it to my lit crit section at home. From the outset I will … Continue reading →

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