The Agatha Christie Centenary Celebration

 

 

One hundred years ago this month, October, 1920, Agatha Christie published her first full-length novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. In celebration of this event, a group of us on GoodReads, mostly escapees from the Booklikes, have embarked on a five and half year journey: reading all of the AC mysteries in publication order. Each month, we will read one Agatha Christie and one side-read from the Golden Age of Mysteries (pre-1970s) that is some way related to the book of the month. 

Choosing the side-read will be a group effort. Our fearless leader, whose idea this is, will give us the topic for the month; for October, it was a locked room mystery, for November, a country house mystery and for December, a Christmas setting. The group will then  propose a few titles for the read and we will vote. Our October vote was a tie, so we decided to read one in September and one in October (The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr and The Chinese Orange Affair by Ellery Queen). Our country house read will be Thirteen Guests by J. Jefferson Farjeon.

Since you also may be looking for new titles to read, I am sharing the poll for the country house read and will continue to do so over the coming month. I am going to try to read as many of the proposed side-reads as I can borrow in audio format but will save the chosen book for the month it is to be read. I have already shared a review of The Circular Staircase and there may be more reviews to come. 

 

 

 

 

And so, let the reading begin.