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Offline ramseytheii

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Agatha Christie
on: January 30, 2011, 02:35:42 AM
Hello everyone.  I would like to start reading the mysteries of Agatha Christie.  Can anyone recommend me where to get started?  There are so many novels, I am overwhelmed.

Walter Ramsey


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Re: Agatha Christie
Reply #1 on: January 30, 2011, 07:21:23 PM
Not really a recommendation, but I started from (what to me are) the most famous of the Poirot series - ABC Murder and Murder on the Orient Express. Afterwards, the rest of the series don't interest me as much now, frankly...so perhaps don't start with those 2!
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Offline emilye

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Re: Agatha Christie
Reply #2 on: January 30, 2011, 09:26:41 PM
"Ten Little Indians".
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Re: Agatha Christie
Reply #3 on: January 31, 2011, 01:03:04 PM
The thing about Agatha Christie is that her output is remarkably even- all pretty darn good, nothing you'ld call great.  Poirot is such a popular character that most people get hooked on him, although Miss Marple has her points.  I read about 25 of them maybe 30 years ago, but have never been tempeted to go back.
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Offline pianist1976

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Re: Agatha Christie
Reply #4 on: February 01, 2011, 11:00:31 PM
I read in the summer of 2000 a couple of Christie's novels, not in English but translated into my native language. I picked them randomly but they liked me a lot. They were "The body in the library" and "Hallowe'en party".

As a curiosity, Alfred Brendel talks about Christie's novels in one of his books...
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