Prior to “The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories” (1939), Agatha Christie seemed to think of her short stories in terms of collections under the banner
I generally prefer Agatha Christie’s novels to her short stories, and now “Dead Man’s Mirror” (1937, also published as “Murder in the Mews”) gives me
Like “The Mysterious Mr. Quin,” “Parker Pyne Investigates” (1934) is a one-off collection of episodic short stories that launches a new and unusual investigator. The
Without peeking ahead at the reviews, I’m guessing “The Mysterious Mr. Quin” (1930) inspires a wide range of opinions among Agatha Christie fans. It’s certainly
Agatha Christie returns to her husband-and-wife sleuths from 1922’s “The Secret Adversary” with the episodic short-story collection “Partners in Crime” (1929), a light batch of
In “The Tuesday Club Murders” (also known as “The Thirteen Problems,” 1932), Agatha Christie gives Miss Marple a collection of short stories to match –
A decade ago, Dark Horse gave us the previously secret backstory of Book in one volume, “The Shepherd’s Tale.” Now we get a similarly classy
Early in my reading of the short-story collection “Poirot Investigates” (1924), I didn’t like how Agatha Christie was unleashing various tropes and tricks within such
From 1997’s “Halloween Rain” through 2008’s “One Thing or Your Mother” — and with the bonus of Kiersten White’s “Slayer” duology in recent years —
Because the five volumes of “The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick” have been reprinted many times under many different names, I’m referring to them