I went through the list of books I’ve read marking my favourites. I wasn’t sure where to start in picking the best of her books, there are so many that I think are excellent and just as many that are really good. Her settings are often country houses in idyllic English villages, but also in exotic locations in the Middle East as in her archaeological mysteries. Some of her characters are clearly defined and fully rounded, some are lightly sketched, and others are comic characters, caricatures presented satirically or even farcically. Her plots are often ingenious, intricate, complicated puzzles, with the clues scattered throughout the texts. Her style is light, humorous at times, but her writing can be dark creating a tense and menacing atmosphere. She wrote over 100 novels, short story collections and plays and she is one of the best-selling (if not the best-selling) novelists of all time, well known for her crime fiction featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple and other detectives, both amateur and police. I first read some of her books as a teenager, but over the last four years or so I’ve been reading as many of her books that I can find.
Please welcome today’s guest blogger: Margaret from BooksPlease, who will be discussing the best and worst of Agatha Christie.Īgatha Christie has long been one of my favourite writers.
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