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Esta entrada es bilingüe, para ver la versión en castellano desplazarse hacia abajo HarperCollins: Masterpiece Ed (2010) Format: Kindle Edition. File Size: 718 KB. Print Length: 289 pages. ASIN:B0046A9MMC. eISBN: 9780008129545.  First published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1948 under the title of There is a Tide . . . … Continue reading “Review: Taken at the Flood, 1948 (Hercule Poirot #23) by Agatha Christie”

Recently, over at In Search of the Classical Mystery Novel, Puzzle Doctor arranged a poll to find the best Poirot novel. [Round One, Round Two, Round Three, Round Four, The Final, The Second Best, The Results].  That, together with other reasons that will be notified in due course, have encouraged me to read them all, … Continue reading “The Best Hercule Poirot Novel”

This is an update from a previous post. If I’m right, the character of Poirot features in some 33 novels and on close to 55 short stories and novellas by Agatha Christie –depending on which ones you would like to take into account. Suffice is to say that some of her short stories were later … Continue reading “Hercule Poirot: Novels, Novellas and Short Stories by Agatha Christie (An Update) First Part: Full-Length Novels”

Agatha Christie, in full Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, née Miller, (born September 15, 1890, Torquay, Devon, England—died January 12, 1976, Wallingford, Oxfordshire), English detective novelist and playwright whose books have sold more than 100 million copies and have been translated into some 100 languages. Educated at home by her mother, Christie began writing detective … Continue reading “Agatha Christie (1890 – 1976) Updated 10 March 2020”

Just to recap where I find myself regarding my aim to reading all Hercule Poirot novels, novellas and short stories by Agatha Christie. If my count is right we have 33 novels and a number close to 55 short stories and novellas, depending on which ones would you like to take into account. Please let … Continue reading “Hercule Poirot: Novels, Novellas and Short Stories by Agatha Christie”