Who likes Agatha Christie? And which one is your favourite?

[nkf]

I am reading Death Comes At the End. Set in Ancient Egypt. Was reminded of it becasue of a visit to the British Museum yesterday.

Anyway, I love her. Dated old twaddle though it is.

[FattipuffsandThinnifers]

Oh I love her too! Got through virtually all of them when I was at school supposed to be revising for O & A levels. Curiously addictive. I still occasionally read them.

Specially love the ones set in 1930s country villages with the formulaic collection of retired army generals, vicars, old spinster ladies, glamorous young ladies, and the brash monied newcomers who everyone slags off. And everyone has housemaids called Gladys who are rubbish at cooking and have adenoid problems.

Think my all time favourite is Why Didn't They Ask Evans.

[PortofinoLovesItUpTheOxoTower]

I love her too - both Miss and Marple and Poirot, those less keen on that married detective couple, whose name currently escapes me......

[nkf]

Tiommy and Tuppence.

[nkf]

Tommy. Ooops.

[littlelamb]

Ooo Agatha Christie is one of my top comfort reads. I love At Bertrams Hotel (is that what its called? Name escapes me now) I love a bit of Miss Marple

[MrsGuyOfGisbourne]

I love 'em too - and also mostly the ones set in villages. My all time fave is the first one I read, also as a teen when suppiosed to be revising - 'After the Funeral'. Others are 'Evil Under the Sun' and the 'Sittaford mystery'. Can't stand Tuppence.There have been some lovely spoofs recently by Gilbert Adair - can't remember the names, but extremely funny.

[daizydoo]

I love Agatha Christie! I have collected and read all her books. I like both Miss Marple and Poirot, except Poirot's final book - Curtain, boy was that traumatic!!

[wheesht]

I was brought up on Agatha Christie. Instead of Enid Blyton being my bedtime stories, mum would recount the chapter she had read from her latest Agatha book Have read them all I think.

My fave was 'And then there was one'. It used to have a very un-pc name when I was young I seem to remember.

[MrsTittleMouse]

AC is dreadful twaddle, but I love it.
Best are Miss Marple and worst are Tommy and Tuppence, but even T&T will do at a pinch.

What's the one where the young bride (from New Zealand?) thinks that she's going crazy because she buys a house and has nightmares about a murder being committed at the bottom of the stairs?

[HumphreyCobbler]

The Moving Finger is my favourite.

Have you read her autogiography? It is really interesting.

[nkf]

Elephants can Remember.

[wheesht]

Was it 'Sleeping Murder' Mrstittlemouse?

[nkf]

I like one of the T&T books. The one where they are young and get invoved with state secrets and an American millionaire and Jane Finn. I can't remember its name.

[YohoAhoy]

Very timely this, as I am about to start re-reading my collection.

Definitely twaddle, but also very nostalgic, as they were inherited from my parents and the whole lot are Very Old Editions indeed. Some of them my dad got in the 50s when he was in the navy - they're American editions with fabulously lurid covers!

I think the ones I like best are with Ariadne Oliver (particularly Pale Horse) plus Murder of Roger Ackroyd because I love the twist.

Then Miss Marple

Have any of you read John Dickson Carr/Carter Dickson? Similar era and just as enjoyable.

[ladymariner]

That one is my favourite wheesh, gave it to 13 year old ds to read the other week as he'd read a very similar sounding teenage version, he loved it aswell!

It's had two very un-pc names, the first one got changed and then the second one did aswell!

I also liked Sparkling Cyanide.

[thumbwitch]

i love Agatha Christie but my Dad owns the set, not me. I haven't read them for 13 years and I am one of those people who can't retain the content for more than 3 years, which means I get to read things almost afresh every 3-4 years. Thus I have forgotten all the plots and couldn't tell you which one I like best!

I prefer Georgette Heyer's murder mysteries though - more humour involved.

[francagoestohollywood]

I loved AC, hers were the first novels I read in English (I was a teenager). My fav was Roger Ackroyd (sp?)

[wheesht]

Didn't realise it had two ladymariner!

[ladymariner]

Yes, but I'd probably better not write them down here!!!

[TheFallenMadonna]

The Secret Adversary is the first Tommy and Tuppence story (the Jane Finn one).

I like Miss Marple ones best, but will read any

My absolute favourite crime writer though is Dorothy L Sayers, mostly because I am rather in love with Lord Peter Wimsey...

[YohoAhoy]

Ladymariner - I remember my mum buying the second "not-quite-as-horrifically-un-PC-as-the-first-title" version of "And then there were none", because she knew the original title was awful and was glad to get it off the shelf!

[oxocube]

Love, love, love. This is my comfort reading even though I know it is dated, sexist, stereotypical etc etc. It just has a certain nostalgia and predictability that pleases me somehow. One of my favourite things to do is to go to bed at 9 pm with tea and toast and an old AC Roger Ackroyd is a classic, franca! Have just re-read Hickory Dickory Dock.

[RachePache]

Sleeping Murder and Crooked House. And also The Mirror Crack'd. And A Pocket Full of Rye. The 4:50 from Paddington. At Bertram's Hotel.

Fabulous.

[MrsTittleMouse]

Sleeping murder - yes that's it! Thank you.

4.50 from Paddington is also great.

[nkf]

I like Cards on the Table.