Friday, November 13, 2020

Agatha Christie Centenary Celebration: Master Tracking Post

The Best Agatha Christie Books
 August, 2020 through March, 2021



2020:
Pre-start reads (Agatha Christie short stories and side-reads)
August:  Poirot Investigates 
The Secret of Greylands by Annie Haynes 
September:  Thirteen Problems
The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr 


October: 1920     The Mysterious Affair at Styles (David Thorn)
Side Read Theme: Locked Room
Side Reads: The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr (9/2020) (not available on audio, Kindle version is full of mistakes)
and The Chinese Orange Mystery by Ellery Queen (10/2020)
 
November: 1922     The Secret Adversary
Side Read Theme: Manor House
Side Reads: Thirteen Guests by Jeffrey Farjeon
non-winners The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart (Lorna Raver), The Girl in Blue by PG Wodehouse, Cloud of Witness by Dorothy Sayers
 
December: 1923     Murder on the Links
Side read theme: Christmas setting
Side-read: The Envious Casca  by Georgette Heyer -- not reading, bad narrator
Non-winners (those available on Audible):  Tied up in Tinsel by Ngaio Marsh, Thou Shell of Death by Nicholas Blake, An English Murder by Cyril Hare, and Santa Klaus Murder by Mavis Doriel Hay

2021:

January: 1924     The Man in the Brown Suit
Side read: TBA
Non-winners: Somebody at the Door by Raymond Postgate
Singing in the Shrouds by Ngaio Marsh
The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White
Blood on the Tracks: Railway Mysteries (anthology edited by Martin Edwards
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Death of an Airman by Christopher St. John Sprigg
Flying Finish by Dick Francis




February: 1925     The Secret of Chimneys
March: 1926     The Murder of Roger Ackroyd


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