2010: #35 – Murder at the Vicarage (Agatha Christie)

Agatha Christie’s genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal, her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. No one knows the human heart–or the dark passions that can stop it–better than Agatha Christie. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime.

Miss Marple–Agatha Christie’s immortal spinster sleuth with the razor-sharp mind and an intuitive understanding of criminal behavior–encounters a compelling murder mystery in the sleepy little village of St. Mary Mead, where under the seemingly peaceful exterior of an English country village lurks intrigue, guilt, deception and death.

Colonel Protheroe, local magistrate and overbearing land-owner is the most detested man in the village. Everyone–even in the vicar–wishes he were dead. And very soon he is–shot in the head in the vicar’s own study. Faced with a surfeit of suspects, only the inscrutable Miss Marple can unravel the tangled web of clues that will lead to the unmasking of the killer.

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2008: #20 – Sad Cypress (Agatha Christie)

Book #20 was Sad Cypress, Agatha Christie’s 20th Hercule Poirot novel. The back of the book reads: Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, only one man still

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2007: #97 – Three Act Tragedy (Agatha Christie)

Book #97 was Three Act Tragedy, the 10th of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot books. The back of the book reads: A cocktail party ends in murder, but who did it? Why? And for that matter, how? No real cause of death has been established. It’s a real baffler and it’s prompting Hercule Poirot to ask another question…who’s next? I found this to be a sub-par

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