Am I the only person who reads Agatha Christie?

I've just read my first Miss Marple - They do it with Mirrors. AND I'm starting my first Amelia Peabody Mystery... Thought I needed a change from Cadfeal, Baldwin and Peter Whimsey.

Oh yes ! I didn't see that coming .

I also loved the Man in the Brown Suit , with that genial villain Sir Eustace Pedler , and his secretary with a face like an executioner !

Miss M appears to solve crime by doing nothing and being sanctimonious. I loathe her.

I like those Amelia Peabody ones though - they are hilarious. They get v samey after a couple though.

I recently re-read The Secret Adversary on my Kindle.

I enjoyed revisiting one of the most chilling lines in literature: "I am Mr Brown..."

My favourite first read was probably After the Funeral. I prefer Miss Marple to HP in general.

The one that took me forever to find was the Listerdale mystery . Took me nearly 3 years to find it , even though I owned two second hand bookshops !

Now I've got it in hardback , paperback , on my kindle ..... !

Still trying to work out what my favourite would be , and I have to say I think it would be a Marple . Probably The Body in the Library as it was the first one I read , which formed the reading habits of a lifetime !

I've read all her books & have at least one copy of all of them.

The first one I read was Murder on the Orient Express, which I found lying around at home once when I was about 14. I spent many happy hours pottering around second hand book shops picking up the rest of them. It got to the stage that I had all of them except for one, and it literally took me a couple of years to track it down - this being about 30 years ago before the internet.

Imagine my joy when I went into a bookshop & found not one, but two copies of the missing book. I was literally jumping up & down with excitement, and of course I bought them both. And for the life of me I can't remember which one it was now.

The whole set, plus all the biographies and books about books are safely stored in the attic. Must be about time for a re-read...

I'm going to try & remember which book it was, it's annoying me now. And it was such a big deal at the time!

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I've read all get books, the majority by the time I was 18,I devoured them ! Not read any for years, will have to dig one out.

I did my dissertation on her many moons ago.

I've just started buying them on my kindle.
I love the Agatha Christie drama on the telly, especially David Suchet and Joan Hickson.
It's the time they were set with country houses and servants and genteel murders.
There's a new Miss Marple on ITV tomorrow, I'm so looking forward to it.

I read loads and loads of her books as a teenager. Loved them!

No time to read except Mumsnet since having DCs. But I probably should work out which ones I have/have not read and work on the remaining ones at some point.

I like the Amelia Peabody books, too. And Laurie R King. Also Phil Rickman although they are a bit more grim, and not really detective stories.

I loved them and now one of my dds is reading them all too.

I love her too. Having problems getting into any books at the moment so I went to the library today to see if I could find something and I spotted some Agatha Christie's. I've not read any of hers for years so I picked up a couple.
Started The Murder of Roger Ackroyd earlier and I'm loving it. They're great stories and so easy to read.

LondonJax I think I have the same book!

Reading that back I sound slightly unhinged... Oh dear...

DH bought me a huge 'guide' type book of Agatha for. It's got synopses of all the stories and plays without giving anything away - which is genius in itself, along with all the characters. So if you wanted to know who Hastings was married to or his children's names as well as who's played him, it's all in there. Marvellous!

Oh and some of the Agatha Raisin stories mentioned on here have been made into radio plays with Penelope Keith as AR. Radio 4 extra have them so you may find them on IPlayer, depending on when they were last aired, along with Hercule Poirot (played by John Moffat) and Miss Marple (played by June Whitfield) - all very good.

I am the world's biggest AC fan, or close to it!

I own all of her books, including the Mary Westmacott and non-fiction ones, auto- and biographies, those "bedside companion" type of books, etc.

I've also been to lots of places, all by accident! Couple years ago I was at a conference in Harrogate and one of the dinners was at the Swan hotel which is where she disappeared to that time. Couple of weeks ago I was at another conference, this time in Torquay, staying at the Grand Hotel which is where she and Archie honeymooned.

But my favourite one...

Before we were engaged DH and I went on a Nile cruise holiday and the tour we were on stopped in Aswan. When I realised that was where she had written Death on the Nile I was v excited. DH disappeared with his phone for a few minutes, then came back and told me what he had done. We were leaving the cruise for a night to stay in the Old Cataract Hotel, the very room she had stayed in for several months one winter writing the book!!!!

I love Agatha Christie and read all of the Poirot and Marple books years ago but now I tend to listen to the Radio 4 dramatisations whenever I need a 'Fix'. They work really well as radio plays. I like the TV and film adaptations too - although some more than others.

Another fan here! Love the books, and also enjoy the Hercule Poirot series on the TV. It's all so genteel (unless you're the murder victim!)

Me too.

I have loads and 30 duplicates but can't bare to part with any .

High time I had an Agatha phase again.

doris ITV at 8. There was a new Poirot last week.

I loved Mousetrap, saw it about 15 years ago, would love to go again one day!

Marple? Tomorrow?