Agatha Christie books
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Harold_Robbins — 16 years ago(November 26, 2009 09:11 PM)
The 1930s and 1940s were her peek years - she still produced some good ones in the 1950s, but after the mid-1960s things were hit-or-miss, with the exception of ENDLESS NIGHT (1967), which was a startling departure for an author by then in her mid-70s: a novel of psychological suspense and quite different from anything she'd done before. The last two novels published, CURTAIN (1975) and SLEEPING MURDER (1976) were written in the 1940s/1950s, so their quality is superior to that of the several novels that preceded them after ENDLESS NIGHT.
"Remind me to tell you about the time I looked into the heart of an artichoke." -
sAndMeLlon — 16 years ago(December 10, 2009 12:12 AM)
I'm a fan so I plan to read everything she's written regardless if people say it's 'good' or 'bad', lol. I've read about half of her mystery collection (there's eighty something books, I believe) so far and I've enjoyed them all, some more than others, though.
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CindyH — 14 years ago(September 29, 2011 12:52 PM)
The thing about Christie is that most of her stuff is amazing. Naturally, none will top And Then There Were None. That is her classic number one book, but there are plenty others that are just as good.
I know your post is old, and you've probably read the ones you picked out already, but for giggles, I'll still add my favorites (most of these have been made into movies as well, some more successful than others):
Lord Edgware Dies
What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!
(a.k.a
4:50 from Paddington
)
Death on the Nile
(also my favorite movie)
Murder on the Orient Express
The ABC Murders
Cards on the Table
Those are my absolute favs and believe it or not, there is a 4-in-1 book that has
Death on the Nile
,
The ABC Murders
,
Cards on the Table
and
Thirteen at Dinner
, which is economical.
Agatha Christie was my first favorite adult author. I began reading her stuff when I was 10.
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scottsteaux63-735-780576 — 13 years ago(October 30, 2012 12:58 PM)
I personally have everything she ever wrote. I love them all: the novels, the plays, the short stories, all of it.
While no one as prolific as Christie can be expected to produce a masterpiece every time, I can honestly say that I never came across anything of Christie's that was not at least good, and most of it is very good, excellent, and a few are masterpieces.
For novels:
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED
THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD
THE MURDER AT THE VICARAGE
DEATH ON THE NILE
EVIL UNDER THE SUN
APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH
THE HOLLOW
TOWARDS ZERO
FIVE LITTLE PIGS
THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES
CURTAIN
THE A.B.C. MURDERS
Plays:
TOWARDS ZERO
THE MOUSETRAP (also read the short story for comparison)
THE HOLLOW
TEN LITTLE INDIANS
APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH
VERDICT
GO BACK FOR MURDER (stage version of FIVE LITTLE PIGS)
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (also read the short story for comparison)
The short stories are too numerous to name here but they are every bit as good as the novels and the plays.
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GoUSN — 12 years ago(April 10, 2013 11:35 PM)
They're all good, but my favorites are those featuring Hercules Poirot.
She had another set of detectives, Tommy and Tuppence, who did some pretty interesting sleuthing - and in books written before the 1940s.
One Agatha Christie book involves a countries in the Middle East whose structures collapsed, enabling terrorists to come into the country and establish a base there. The book, written in the 1930s, seemed to foresee the rise of Al Queada and the Taliban. -
Jessica_Rabbit69 — 12 years ago(June 04, 2013 09:59 AM)
GoUSN, I don't think you will re-find this book because I think it does not exist. Maybe it was by a different author.
I know all her books, and the only one that has any resemblance with the plot you're thinking of may be They Came to Baghdad. It was written in 1951 though. But it doesn't really have a country that collapses and the word terrorists does not apply to the bad guys.
It does have a few looneys though who would like to see a new world order.
Jessica Rabbit
"I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way." -
Jimmy-128 — 12 years ago(June 04, 2013 01:34 PM)
Oddly enough, I've never read that one
And now that I've read the synopsis in "The Complete Christie", I think Jessica's right:
(Google "they came to baghdad" "agatha christie encyclopedia" the Google Books link is the third link from the bottom. Then go to the third occurrence of "They Came to Baghdad" in the book; it's the book's listing)