In “Giants’ Bread” (1930, sometimes published as “Giant’s Bread”), her first Mary Westmacott novel, Agatha Christie seems to be as driven to write a non-genre
“Elephants Can Remember” (1972) isn’t Agatha Christie’s worst novel — “The Big Four” and “Passenger to Frankfurt” are less readable. But it is her thinnest
Agatha Christie might’ve seemed like she was losing her marbles on the spy thriller “Passenger to Frankfurt” (1970), her worst novel to this point. But
Agatha Christie was more hit-and-miss with her plays than with her novels. In one of the hits, “The Unexpected Guest” (1958, novelized by Charles Osborne
As a fan of Agatha Christie and of comedy that points out the absurdities of all human beings, I found “See How They Run” to
In the Twenties, Agatha Christie showed she could competently write puzzle mysteries in the vein of Arthur Conan Doyle and the established masters. In the Thirties
“The Floating Admiral” (1931) is billed as “the most unusual mystery ever written,” and it may indeed be. It’s a “round-robin” novel. Think of it
“Endless Night” (1967) is often ranked as the Agatha Christie novel that most fits the horror label. Although I give a slight edge to proto-slasher
Agatha Christie didn’t write as many cozy village murder mysteries as the stereotype suggests. But “A Murder is Announced” (1950) is one of them, with
Agatha Christie wrote “By the Pricking of My Thumbs” (1968) for the many fans who wrote her letters asking what’s up with Tommy and Tuppence.