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Am I the only person who reads Agatha Christie?

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overthinking · 15/06/2013 20:37

My DH and friends giggle at me but I love her books. Chocolate, sofa snuggles and one of her books and I am a happy lady Smile
Am I the only one?

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NicknameTaken · 19/07/2013 11:37

Last year I went on a tour at the British Museum. We were looking at artefacts dug up during a 1930s (I think) excavation. The guide said to read AC's Murder in Mesopotamia as it gave a real flavour of what the dig had been like, including some of the more forceful personalities involved...No actual murder in real-life though!

MrsFrederickWentworth · 16/07/2013 17:55

Have just read The Man in the Brown Suit for the first time..1924. Interesting, she hasn't got her style yet.

Arabesque · 16/07/2013 17:11

I loved them as a teenager, went off them for a while when I discovered the grittier PD James and Inspector Wexford mysteries, but came back to them like a pair of comfy old slippers. I re read them frequently. Even though I know the plots I just love the settings and the whole atmosphere she creates; particularly, as other posters have said, the novels set in the 1930s and 1940s. I'm fascinated by that era and she writes about it so well.
I prefer Miss Marple to HP but I enjoy both series.

Debbycox · 16/07/2013 10:48

read them all as a teenager. Love Tommy and Tuppence but she only wrote a few with this young 'daring couple!' her books really conjure up the glamour of the 20's and 30's.

Ubermumsy · 10/07/2013 10:21

You're not alone. I love them - currently reading "Towards Zero". I don't even mind that I can remember whodunnit - I'm just enjoying the journey.

mixedmamameansbusiness · 10/07/2013 10:17

I remember watching Hamish Macbeth - I assume it is based on the books.

VanitasVanitatum · 10/07/2013 10:06

Thanks MrsFrederick Grin

FannyMcNally · 10/07/2013 08:19

Ha ha Nivet. Your DH sounds exactly like mine! Grin

Nivet · 09/07/2013 23:46

FannyMcNally my pleasure, glad they went to a good home. Thank you for the card/postage, DH said I'd never hear from you again, cynical old bastard.

I was inspired by a very kind Mumsnetter who gave me a Baby Dan playpen. Ah, lovely Mumsnet Grin

MrsFrederickWentworth · 09/07/2013 23:39

Dog, not fig, blasted phone.

MrsFrederickWentworth · 09/07/2013 23:37

Mixedmama, I love Hamish Macbeth. V gentle, v sentimental, v funny..and. our DDog refuses to eat fig food too.

Vanitas (love the name) there is a GH thread under adult fiction, the regency books. I haven't looked recently but the discussions were very good.

VanitasVanitatum · 09/07/2013 11:51

Have read all of them several times, so am very excited about doris list too!! Now I just need a similar list for Georgette Heyer romances.. Being able to read them with my eyes closed maybe means I've read them too often..

mixedmamameansbusiness · 09/07/2013 11:44

Aww she wrote Hamish Macbeth too.

MrsFrederickWentworth · 08/07/2013 23:20

Agatha Raisin is such a honestly not very nice person. I love the way the vicar detests her. Not that he is likable either.

MrsFrederickWentworth · 08/07/2013 23:15

Ha!

mixedmamameansbusiness · 08/07/2013 19:29
mixedmamameansbusiness · 08/07/2013 19:29

I am going to have to look into Agatha Raisin - not least because that is possibly the most awesome name ever.

chalkie34 · 08/07/2013 14:57

love Agatha Christie and Agatha raisin both great writers also love jack higgins

MrsFrederickWentworth · 07/07/2013 21:23

Mixedmama, v sorry (not) you fell down that stair at the Cobb in Lyme Regis.. you are not alone, there is a MNr who always wants to address me as Ms Anne Elliot.

Hah. Got there first and last.

( the secret thoughts of AE)

FannyMcNally · 07/07/2013 18:36

Just resurrecting this thread to publicly thank Nivet for my birthday present!

I am slowly working my way through the series and hugely enjoying Joan Hickson's wonderful Miss Marple. I am going to re-read the books as well, just to see how close this series was to the originals. Lovely!

mixedmamameansbusiness · 06/07/2013 23:58

MrsFrederickWentworth - nooo I am the real Mrs Frederivk Wentworth.

It seems we share more than Agatha Christie Grin

notcitrus · 29/06/2013 10:49

I've got that scary-covered Caribbean Mystery too!

The first 'grown up' books I read were Christies, and then living abroad the local library's English section was limited but seemed to include them all. At the time loads of the social nuances and historical references went over my head, but I loved Miss Marple's line about meeting all of human nature in a village and it being easy to study - I felt the same way about my boarding school.

So now reading them again to appreciate the backgrounds properly, but currently sidetracked by Sayers, who I seem to be reading backwards - just read Gaudy Night and want to start it again!

Alfonso1 · 29/06/2013 08:59

I love Agatha Christie books. Always read them when I am sick in bed. Very comforting.

MrsFrederickWentworth · 28/06/2013 20:34

I love them but especially Miss Marple. I come from.a small village and what she says is so true. HP is do self satisfied.

The Agatha Raisins are fun, but if you want gentle and sentimental, try MC Beaton's Hamish Macbeth series, or the Precious Ramotswes, which I love because thru get the taste of Botswana.

Doris, am with you though find Campion more irritating than Lord Peter. Also love Josephine Tey, all of which have just been republished, and Edmund thingmummy of The Moving Toyshop and others.

mixedmamameansbusiness · 27/06/2013 17:50

It arrived, but is an early seventies edition. I should have known. I don't mind though, I just really don't like the new fangled, bland covers so I still have a great illustration.

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