Showing posts with label queen of mystery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label queen of mystery. Show all posts

Thursday, 5 December 2024

Tome Thursday: The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

 
 
Hello everyone!
 
Hopefully you're all prepared for the holidays and don't need to go into any more stores, because even though we're in a rather dicey and unfortunate situation right now, somehow people STILL gather there en masse.
 
You would think, right?
 
But hopefully most of you are all done with every shopping expedition and you can enjoy the time at home now that the holidays are officially upon us.
 
As it so happens, the main focus of our little book review tonight could NOT stay at home despite the fact he wanted to. And isn't that just sat in the long run? Luckily for us though it does turn out quite funny along the way so it isn't as though we don't get any payoff from it.
 
If you're thinking that the title of this book is a bit weird in terms of what I've just said, you may even be right.
 
Then again, when it comes to Agatha Christie and her Hercule Poirot, it usually is.
 
 

Thursday, 24 December 2020

Tome Thursday: The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

 
Hello everyone!
 
Hopefully you're all prepared for the holidays and don't need to go into any more stores, because even though we're in a rather dicey and unfortunate situation right now, somehow people STILL gather there en masse.
 
You would think, right?
 
But hopefully most of you are all done with every shopping expedition and you can enjoy the time at home now that the holidays are officially upon us.
 
As it so happens, the main focus of our little book review tonight could NOT stay at home despite the fact he wanted to. And isn't that just sat in the long run? Luckily for us though it does turn out quite funny along the way so it isn't as though we don't get any payoff from it.
 
If you're thinking that the title of this book is a bit weird in terms of what I've just said, you may even be right.
 
Then again, when it comes to Agatha Christie and her Hercule Poirot, it usually is.
 
 

Saturday, 31 October 2020

Murder on the Orient Express (Booktober)

 

"I do not approve of murder."

 

 
I once again saved the very best for last, at least in my opinion, but who can deny that Agatha Christie really remains the Queen of Mystery? And the silly movie with Kenneth Branagh aside, Murder on the Orient Express remains one of her best works to this day. What happens when an American household is shaken to its core by a senseless brutal act, and the staff decide to take matters into their own hands? As they have just the luck of finding themselves on the fabled Orient Express alongside Hercule Poirot, famous mustachioed detective extraordinaire, we have the privilege of experiencing it all first-hand. And if reading about it isn't enough, I highly recommend the television series starring David Suchet!
 
 
 
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer—in case he or she decides to strike again ...
(from Goodreads)
 
xx
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