Any Agatha Christie fans about?

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I read them all avidly about 40 years ago and am rediscovering them via Charity shops atm.

One of my favourites was about a group of people living in a shared house, possibly a student house and there were letters written in green ink. I've had a google but can't find the name of the book. Any ideas please?

No spoilers please because I can only remember the murderer in a few and don't want to spoil the rest.

Now I've found it! As I find the picture of Trudi "Mrs Sting" Styler in Body in the Library.

• I had poppy and cornflower wall paper in my bedroom as I loved that episode on tv.

Didn’t see if anyone mentioned it but there’s an Agatha Christie festival in Devon. Only found out this year after it happened. Hoping for the next one as dd2 is a massive fan too (won a book day prize for being Miss Marple )

If you are looking for books in a similar sort of vein Gyles Brandreth writes crime stories starring Oscar Wilde. There are three so far and I recommend them, especially if you are a fan of Wilde.
Andrew Wilson wrote A Talent For Murder and The Lying Tongue with feature Christie as a detective, though they are not authorised by the Christie estate, and i like Nicola Upson books featuring Josephine Tey as a detective. There are eight of those novels to enjoy.

I'm currently enjoying the Daisy Dalrymple mysteries by Carola Dunn. Set in the 1920s and very much on the 'cosy' side of the crime genre. There isn't quite so much of the puzzle element as in Christie, but they're good comfort reading for a winter day.

Some of the books feature child characters who are not obnoxious or revoltingly twee, and who do make a contribution to the plot.

Went to see Knives Out last night. It wasn't bad, very entertaining. Homage in parts .

DH, DR (12) and I really enjoyed Knives Out

I absolutely loved Knives Out - I've seen it twice! It was just so enjoyable, definitely an homage to the Finney/Ustinov films with the ensemble cast. I thought everyone in it was great.

It had a lot of what a PP said up thread appeals about Agatha's books - the setting, characters etc were such a big part of it, as well as the storyline itself.

Yes Knives Out was very good, very Christie like.
Catronia McPherson is another 1920/30s style writer, she writes about Dandy Gilver, a posh lady who gets involved with mysterious goings on, some comedy in the situations, they are enjoyable, and Jaqueline Windspear is an excellent writer, her heroine is Maisie Dobbs, her books cover the years from the first into the Second World War.

Thanks for the festive reading tips - will definitely be looking into some of these.

Frances Brody is another mystery writer who I would recommend, her heroine is Kate Shackleton a Yorkshire detective, there are 11 of her books.i don’t know how she manages to think them up but they are very good imo.
Ann Granger is also very good, she writes both contemporary mysteries and Victorian ones. I look out for these authors in charity shops but the only thing is I tend to forget which ones I’ve read!

You might want to see if your local library has any of them available as ebooks, if you have a suitable device to read them on. That's how I'm reading the Daisy Dalrymples.

I think the inspector Thanet series by Dorothy Simpson have a similar feel to some of her AC's novels. Would be interested in anyone else has read this series.

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Thank you tobee!

I’ve just been lurking here, but so glad I have. It inspired DH to buy me a set of Christie books second hand for Christmas. I’ve read most of them in the past from libraries and charity shops etc but couldn’t remember some of them mentioned on this thread.
I’ve had the sickness bug so got to miss out on DH and DC going for family meals over next few days but at least I’ll have Poirot to keep me company. Going to look up that documentary too.

This thread has inspired me to re-read. I've just finished The Mirror Crack'd and appreciated all over again how well done the BBC versions were. The casting was superb; I saw and heard all the actors in my mind, esp. Gwen Watford as Dolly Bantry, as I was reading.

Has anyone read any of the new Poirots by Sophie Hannah? I read the first one, but didn't like it enough to want to read more.

The Sophie Hannah books get better as they go along.

Oh, maybe I'll try another, then. My local library has them as ebooks, so nothing to lose except a bit of time. (In the past, I've tended to persevere to the end of a book even if I'm not much liking it. Now I won't bother.)

By coincidence I just read Hickory Dickory Dock the other day - how funny. I love AC.