I´m afraid, this will never be one of my favorite Poirot novels. The mystery is good and pretty dark, actually, and I like that you can tell that Poirot is old and kind of weary. This book gave me a bit of a nostalgic feeling while reading it. The constant youth bashing in this book was really gra...
In my mind, courtesy of all those Miss Marple and Poirot TV series, I think of Agatha Christie as writing contemporaneously about England between the wars, still hanging on to its empire and with upper-class privilege unchallenged. In reality, Agatha Christie continued to publish crime novels into...
In my mind, courtesy of all those Miss Marple and Poirot TV series, I think of Agatha Christie as writing contemporaneously about England between the wars, still hanging on to its empire and with upper-class privilege unchallenged.In reality, Agatha Christie continued to publish crime novel into the...
In my mind, courtesy of all those Miss Marple and Poirot TV series, I think of Agatha Christie as writing contemporaneously about England between the wars, still hanging on to its empire and with upper-class privilege unchallenged.In reality, Agatha Christie continued to publish crime novel into the...
I think this may be the first Christie book that I've read that was set later in her career. It was interesting to see the changes in dialogue and story line in a book first published in 1969 and those by the same author that were originally published a couple of decades or so earlier. It was also...
Rating: 5 StarsThis book has been an annual read for me around Halloween for the past 4 years. I love this book! The story never gets old. When I first read it, the ending was a complete shocker...totally unexpected! Even though I've read this book many times one know what to expect, I still ver...
Series: Hercule Poirot #36 This was a really mediocre Poirot. I suppose the underlying mystery was somewhat interesting, but it was buried under a whole lot of musings on how degenerate the youth of the day are and how many mentally disturbed people are running around free in present day society (...
Ever had a bite at a nice red juicy apple and there, down by the core, something rather nasty rears itself up and wags its head at you? Those damned apples!They're Aridane Oliver's weak spot, and in this story, bobbing for apples is a dangerous game. This is the third time I've read Hallowe'en Pa...
The Books: Vampires vs. Werewolves – Terry Pratchett: Feet of Clay (Discworld #19) Part of the Night Watch subseries and officially now one of my favorite non-Witches Pratchett novels. And I also have a new favorite non-Witches Discworld character: the Night Watch's resident female werewolf Consta...
The Books: Read by Candlelight or Flashlight – E.T.A. Hoffmann: Das Fräulein von Scuderi (Mademoiselle de Scuderi) (read by flashlight, in bed) A spooky mystery set in the 1680s, in the Paris of Louis XIV. Mlle. de Scuderi – an elderly gentlewoman who is in the confidence of the king and his maitres...
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