Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. More than seventy detective novels of British writer Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie include The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and And Then There Were None (1939) she also wrote plays, including The Mousetrap (1952). I’m definitely going to continue reading Agatha Christie, though I might switch over to her Miss Marple series instead.Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan. Honestly, I felt like this book was leading me into rating it 3 stars for mediocrity but then all of a sudden EVERYTHING MADE SENSE. There were so many twists and turns in this book and in the end, I was completely shocked. Nick is the narrator, but he’s not really the main character.Īs far as the plot goes, my memory is terrible so I can’t remember anything specific, but I really liked how I could never put my finger on what was happening. Reading this book reminded me a lot of The Great Gatsby.
He tells us his account of what happened but the real MC is Detective Hercule Poirot. The thing that I found really interesting about this book is that the narrator is, in many ways, not the main character. I tend to not like old books, so we both worried that I would have a hard time reading this.
My partner grabbed this book from the school library and he and I both had the same hesitations. I’ve been interested in trying out Agatha Christie’s books for a while, especially since I found out that people like to classify her books as “cozy mystery”, a genre that I wanted to learn more about. It’s up to Hastings and Poirot to figure out who killed Emily, how they did it, and why. Emily’s family has long suspected her new (and unlikeable) husband Alfred of being a gold digger and now that Emily death has been attributed to poison, suspicion immediately falls on him.
Amongst her house guests are Captain Arthur Hastings and his friend Detective Hercule Poirot. Racism (Use of the N word and the G*psy slur)ĭuring the summer of 1917, Emily Inglethorp dies suddenly and unexpectedly.I didn’t expect to like this book as much as I did!
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