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Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie (1890-1976) wrote sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short-story collections, including the Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Tommy and Tuppence series. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, And Then There Were None, and Murder on the Orient Express are the entry points.

Reviews

5

Books on file

6

Avg rating

3.8

Years active

1958-2006

Reviewed

Our reviews of Agatha Christie's work

The takes

What we have said about Agatha Christie

  • Agatha Christie's 1967 standalone. Her most modern and most genuinely unsettling novel. The book she said she wrote in six weeks.

  • Masterpieces of Mystery and the Unknown by Agatha Christie review. A 1969 short-story collection drawing from across Christie's six decades of supernatural and crime shorter fiction.

  • Christie's 1958 standalone. A man returns to a family two years after one of them was hanged for a murder he could have alibi'd. Bleak, careful, unusually adult.

  • Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie 1970 review. Late-Christie Cold War thriller that swaps Poirot and Marple for a globe-trotting diplomat and a conspiracy thread that loses the plot in the last act.

  • Christie's 1954 stage play, novelized later by Charles Osborne. A country-house body, a hostess covering for the wrong person. Slight but pleasant.

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