Any Agatha Christie fans about?

[wineoclockthanks]

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.

Love Christie. Plus her books were so portable in handbags when I was commuting to london in the 90s.

My fave is why didn't they ask evans? I like the standalone ones without the marple/Poirot detectives. I looked forward to the recent adaptations but Sarah Phelps changes the endings too much, particularly ordeal by innocence, so now I wont watch them. The original film version of murder on the orient Express is my fave film.

The Hollow is one of my favourites, it's also a really good play.

Tommy and Tuppance are irritating. There's one (maybe more*) TV adaptation were they shoehorned Miss Marple into a Tommy and Tuppance story, amuses me each time it's on!

*there are other books adapted for TV were Marple is included I think, but don't know if they are T&T ones.

@worldshohohokayestmum

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is absolutely a stand alone and is often spoke of as Agatha Christie’s masterpiece.

Love Agatha Christie! A friend bought me The ABC Murders for Christmas when I was about 13 and got me hooked. I haven’t read one for ages, must pay the library a visit.

My favourite was always Five Little Pigs, because it's one of the few where as a reader you can work out whodunnit based on what's written. You otherwise have to read it, say the one person it couldn't possibly be, because it will be them, or wait whilst Poirot goes off on a train to get a ceertificate to prove X and Y are related or married.

I do like Hickory Dickory Dock though, I loved the idea of Miss Lemon's sister.

@MyChristmasBauble thank you! I'll definitely get it then

That's the one @wraithberry! Thank You for helping me with the name.

The alternative history drama on Channel 5 the other night was surprisingly good

I didn't watch, must look at catch up.

I have a book called , I think, AC in Mesopotamia, all about the digs she went on with Max Mallowan. It's fascinating.

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is an ideal place for your DH to start, Worlds! Stand alone is no problem with Agatha Christie. She has detectives who recur from book to book but you don't need to know anything about their earlier lives to make sense of what happens in later books.

The 1974 film of Murder on the Orient Express is terrific. Haven't seen the recent remake but it's hard to see how it could measure up, not least because of the music.

Loved Agatha Christie and am in Tenerife right now, where she visited a lot of the time
She used to go to puerto de la Cruz though, which we visit rarely. I believe there’s a statue of her up ther.
I liked ten little Indians ..but I think it was called something else and may have been renamed again.
I think I’d like to reread them

Yes hate tommy and tuppence
Did ten little Indians become and then there were none

Final name change was And Then There Were None, Dowser.

I love Agatha Christie books! Murder of Roger Ackroyd is my favourite followed by Sleeping Murder. I saw The Mousetrap a couple of years ago and really enjoyed that. I've got all the books on Audible and regularly relisten to them.

Yes, And Then There Were None was Ten Little Indians, and before that it had another title which I can only presume was regarded as acceptable in those days.

@susiella
Hi I think the Pale Horse is being adapted by Sarah Phelps, was hoping for it this Christmas but think it’s going to be in the New Year now.

Sorry to interrupt your thread, but my BIL loves Agatha Christie and I don't know which ones he's read. Are there any modern authors you Christie fans would recommend?

My favourite book is ABC Murders. Couldn't face the version they did with Malkovic. The Suchet one is not bad although one of the main characters is badly miscast.

Love the old Murder on the Express film. The latest was totally dire.

Hickory Dickory Dock with Suchet was better than the book imo, they set it in the 1930s. I think Christie largely struggled with writing in the 60s etc because the country house world milieu was diminishing.

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was the first one I read. I read all of them. Miss Marple was my favourite.

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, A Murder is Announced and And Then There Were None are all my favourites.

I also went to see The Moustrap last year. It was brilliant, they hold back 20 seats in the very front row for day sales every day. which are only about £20 each so not only are they excellent seats, they are very reasonable. Highly Highly recommend it.

We made a day of it in London by going first to buy the tickets, then had a walk around before going to lunch at Browns just down the road from the theatre and going to the matinee performance (my 75 yo dad would have fallen asleep if we had gone to the evening performance).

Hickory Dickory Dock is a good one too though.

Love Agatha Christie. My favourite is still 'Why Didn't They Ask Evans' (not Poirot or Miss Marple or Tommy and Tuppence). I first read it when I was about eight or nineZ

And what's great with her books is you can read them again a decade later, having completely forgotten who did it and why!

My dad knew the guy who did the front covers and he signed one for me. No idea where it is now

oh also There was a little documentary typ programme about Agatha on tv the other night... I think it was called inside the Mind of Agatha Christie but I can't remember what channel it was on. Sunday evening I think. Was enjoyable.

oh I forgot the ABC Murders. She was just such a brilliant brilliant writer. so so many excellent pieces. The documentary reminded me just how phenomenally successful she has been.

She is the 3rd biggest selling writer of all time ever. Behind only Shakespeare and the Bible.

@SpiderHunter he might like James Anderson, who wrote The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cosy (can't remember other titles off the top of my head)

@FreckledLeopard me too! It was in our classroom at primary school for some reason. Really enjoyed it and I liked rereading it too a couple of years ago.