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John Curran
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Abandoned by user
Abandoned by user rated it 6 years ago
As I've previously mentioned in an update, this is a book that is really aimed at level 10 Christie fans. It spoils the solutions of many of the books, although sometimes the spoiler is fairly oblique. For someone who is just a casual Christie reader, it wouldn't make much sense or, even, be particu...
Murder by Death
Murder by Death rated it 9 years ago
The other unpublished work that was included in Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks, The Mystery of the Dog's Ball was actually the basis for Christie's full-length novel Dumb Witness (1937). The character's names are different, but apparently several scenes are identical. I won't say this short s...
Murder by Death
Murder by Death rated it 9 years ago
One of the previously unpublished Poirot mysteries in short story form, The Capture of Cerberus is almost purely allegorical with a fantasy ending. It was impossible for me to read it without picturing Hitler, which was no doubt Christie's intent, but knowing what history now shows us, I found the ...
Murder by Death
Murder by Death rated it 9 years ago
I stopped reading this book after about a hundred pages - not because it wasn't good, it was, but because I haven't read all of Christie's canon yet, and this books is 100% geared towards those that have (or have at least read a majority of it). The author states from the beginning that there are m...
What I Happen to Be Reading At the Moment
Murder in the Making roughly follows the format of Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks, where John Curran's analysis is interspersed with his transcriptions of Christie's notebooks. Christie was a constant notebook keeper but not so good at keeping all the notes chronologically. There are solutions t...
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