Am I the only person who reads Agatha Christie?

[overthinking]

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
Am I the only one?

[mixedmamameansbusiness]

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

[mixedmamameansbusiness]

[MrsFrederickWentworth]

Ha!

[MrsFrederickWentworth]

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

[mixedmamameansbusiness]

Aww she wrote Hamish Macbeth too.

[VanitasVanitatum]

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..

[MrsFrederickWentworth]

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.

[MrsFrederickWentworth]

Dog, not fig, blasted phone.

[Nivet]

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

[FannyMcNally]

Ha ha Nivet. Your DH sounds exactly like mine!

[VanitasVanitatum]

Thanks MrsFrederick

[mixedmamameansbusiness]

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

[Ubermumsy]

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.

[Debbycox]

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.

[Arabesque]

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.

[MrsFrederickWentworth]

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

[NicknameTaken]

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!

[edam]

That's interesting, nickname. Goes alongside the story that Georgette Heyer's An Infamous Army is apparently the best description of the Battle of Waterloo and was allegedly used at Sandhurst.

[Calabria]

My husband and I are working our way through all the Agatha Christie books at the moment. He is doing it in chronological order. I'm not so organised though and just grab any one.

Many parcels have arrived from Amazon lately to complete the collection.

[Louise1956]

yes, I love her books. i have read many of them several times, favourites like Hercule Poirot's Christmas, Cards on the Table, Mrs McGinty's Dead, A Murder is Announced, Towards Zero, At Bertram's Hotel, etc. i love Poirot and Miss Marple, also Superintendant Battle (I wish she had written more about him). her autobiography is marvellous too, especially the early part about her childhood and youth, and her experiences of WW1.

[Louise1956]

the Agatha Raisin books are okay, though she is a very silly woman, they are nothing like as good as Agatha Christie's books though.

[leilajay]

I am a big fan, I have a great collection myself.

[JulieAnderton]

I'd heard so much about the genius of The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd and couldn't wait to read it. Unfortunately I correctly guessed the culprit about halfway through. Was rather pleased with myself, but also a bit sad that I didn't get the OMG reveal moment!

[chihiro]

This thread has just reminded me I have two unread Christies which I picked up at a charity shop. They are The Hollow and Miss Marple and the Thirteen Problems. I may get some chocolate today and curl up with one of these when the kids are in bed.

Which one shall I read first?

[ElizaCBennett]

Definitely The Hollow. Love AC, have read all her books many, many times. Brilliant storyteller; enjoy!