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Amy Reynolds

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Solid start to Marple

Total
4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 05-03-25

Not the best Marple book but it's only the first full length novel in the series, and not a bad start

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Crooked House > Endless Night

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-26-25

Endless Night creeps me the eff out. Definitely one of Christie's most genuinely disturbing books, so if you like that kind of thing, go for it! Crooked House is a standalone, with no familiar Christie characters, and it's a classic "extended family living with rich patriarch" set up, but I think it's actually Christie's best use of that trope in her whole catalogue. The twist of Crooked House is also one of my favorites of all time.

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What a classic!

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-26-25

While it's often dismissed as a wannabe "Murder on the Orient Express," there are things about this book that I like even better than "Orient Express." We get a lot more time to get to know the characters and care about each of their unique situations and troubles. This can make it feel slow getting started, but I actually really enjoyed the more leisurely pace.

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Marple-lite, but fun!

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-26-25

There is extremely little Marple in this book, but I really really like our viewpoint character, and most of the other characters as well.

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After the Funeral > Murder on the Links

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3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-26-25

Murder on the Links is the bad stumble that Christie took between her solid first book and her MASTERFUL third book; it's an absolute mess of lucky coincidences. After the Funeral, however, is a ton of fun, a really good example of the classic Christie "extended family all wants the patriarch's money" set-up. Nothing especially outstanding, but very enjoyable.

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Towards Zero > Ordeal by Innocence

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-26-25

I really adore Towards Zero in terms of the characters and structure, and especially for Superintendent Battle being at his Battle-est. Ordeal by Innocence is okay, if you can get past the really messed up ideas about adoption that they had at the time and the (even for Christie) rather alarming age gap in one of the final happy couples.

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Christie subverts herself!

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-26-25

The structure of the first half of the book is really great, giving a retrospective from all five of the main suspects, but my very favorite part is that Christie breaks one of her own unspoken rules to give a really great twist!

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Must love bridge?

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-26-25

I didn't like this one the first time I read it, but it's grown on me. If you know nothing at all about the card game bridge then you're gonna be completely lost at several points, but if you can survive that, then the characters are a lot of fun, and this is the first time we get to meet three recurring Christie characters: Ariadne Oliver, Superintendent Battle, and Colonel Race, all of whom I adore.

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One of my favorites

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-26-25

I really love this one! I always enjoy it when it takes Poirot a long time to *get it,* and this is a really great example of that done well.

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A big departure for Christie

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-26-25

This is almost more of an adventure novel than a mystery, at least in tone. I really love it, but it's very un-Christie like in a lot of ways, the stakes and the scope and the swashbuckling hero.

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