Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (Agatha Christie)

Agatha Christie says goodbye to the light-hearted thriller for almost a decade.

4.50 from Paddington (Agatha Christie)

What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!: Murder in a passing train. Call for Miss Marple.

Hercule Poirot: The First Cases

Murder is not a game, Hercule Poirot once told his associate Captain Hastings – but in that, for once, the little Belgian sleuth was wrong.

The Moving Finger (Agatha Christie)

Poison pen letters lead to murder.

Agatha Christie

This post is an adaptation from my Master's thesis on the detective story, University of Sydney, 2012. Agatha Christie, ‘the Queen of Crime’, is deservedly the most famous of all detective writers, a writer of universal appeal.  She is the most popular writer in history, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, and continues not …