And it just so happened that the 2020 PopSugar Reading Challenge included a prompt for a book from a series with more than 20 books.
I don’t love having to be *that* on guard while I read- don’t get me wrong, I love using my brain when I read, it’s why I enjoy nonfiction so very much- but mysteries? They’re like those logic puzzles…that I’m also bad at.īut Agatha Christie was already on my list this year, as she was an author I’d never read before and I wanted to know what I was missing out on. There are too many characters, everyone seems suspicious, and I really overthink things and make them way more complicated than they have to be. I almost never guess the identity of the killer (and when I do, I’m practically doing a touchdown dance, it’s that rare for me to figure it out). I don’t mind watching movies with mysteries in them. Mysteries are some of the most popular items at almost every library, my own included (I asked at our last book club). I’ve heard librarians talk about how Christie’s books circulate as much or more than any other modern popular author and how they have to replace her books frequently due to constant use. She’s super popular and people love her books like they love their children. This? This was my first Agatha Christie novel. Gather close for another round of Book Blogger Confessions. BBC Radio 4 dramatised the story in 2003 with June Whitfield and the graphic novel adaptation was first published in France in 2005 under the title L'Affaire Protheroe.Okay, gang. The novel was adapted for the screen, first with Joan Hickson in 1986 and again in 2004 with Geraldine McEwan in the starring role. I think this is the best you have done - almost".
"Dear old Tabbies" she wrote to Christie, "are the only possible right kind of female detective and Miss M is lovely. Dorothy L Sayers was particularly complimentary of this novel. Not only are we formally introduced to the village of St Mary Mead and the "Parish cats" otherwise known as Miss Marple and her friends, but several other recurring characters including the vicar and his wife, Leonard and Griselda Clement, who also appeared in The Body in the Library (1942) and 4.50 from Paddington (1957). Not a book club exactly, The Crime Club was a series of mystery titles published and promoted under the name. It was the first of her mysteries to be published as part of her publisher Collins’ new Crime Club series and the first novel to feature Miss Marple. The Murder at the Vicarage is one of Agatha Christie’s most popular books.
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