There are dark, mysterious men, and beautiful heroines, and it’s all just fabulously great fun, even if it’s completely impractical. Instead, they scramble all over the world, with all sorts of overly-dramatic cloak-and-dagger moves. These are the books that aren’t really cozy mysteries – they lack the motive-based murder and the narrow set of potential murderers. I also happen to have a great fondness for her “spy” novels (which may be why Tommy and Tuppence’s first appearance in The Secret Adversary is one of my all-time favorite reads). But I know that there are definitely several I’ve never read, so that’s exciting. Wodehouse’s Bertie and Jeeves books in published order.) Miss Marple was next, and now I’m down to the “leftovers” – her miscellaneous books.Īs with the Poirot, Marple, and T&T books, I’ve read many of these before. (I had a very similar experience reading all of P.G. Even though they don’t really “build” on each other, I got so much more out of them by reading in order and watching different background characters come in and out.
Then I went on to read all of the Hercule Poirot books in published order, which was absolutely brilliant. I started with my favorites, Tommy and Tuppence. A long while back, I was seized with a great desire to read all of Christie’s books. So I think that I neglected to mention, when I reviewed The Man in the Brown Suitlast month, that I am embarking on another Christie kick. The Aroma of Books //Rants//Raves//Reviews// Pargeter, Edith (also writing as Ellis Peters).Mertz, Barbara (also writing as Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels).Christie, Agatha (also writing as Mary Westmacott).Children’s History: Landmark, Signature Biographies, and We Were There.#BookSpin & #BookSpinBingo (Litsy Challenge).
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