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Happy Birthday, Agatha Christie
It's a new year, according to the Jewish calendar, and I started mine by mistakenly deleting all my previous blog posts. Talk about wiping the slate clean!
But there can be few more pleasant ways to begin a new year of blogging than wishing Agatha Christie, who was born on September 15, 1890, a very happy birthday.
Why do Dame Agatha's books continue to sell in the billions? Robert Barnard, in his book A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie, perhaps says it best: "It is the wonderful simplicity of Agatha Christie’s deceptions of the reader that keeps the stories of her classic period so fresh and readable. You always want to kick yourself at the end—rather than the author."
If I had to choose my favorite five Christies, my list would include, in no particular order:
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Murder at the Vicarage
They Came to Baghdad
M or N?
All the rest of them :)
What are your favorites?
But there can be few more pleasant ways to begin a new year of blogging than wishing Agatha Christie, who was born on September 15, 1890, a very happy birthday.
Why do Dame Agatha's books continue to sell in the billions? Robert Barnard, in his book A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie, perhaps says it best: "It is the wonderful simplicity of Agatha Christie’s deceptions of the reader that keeps the stories of her classic period so fresh and readable. You always want to kick yourself at the end—rather than the author."
If I had to choose my favorite five Christies, my list would include, in no particular order:
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Murder at the Vicarage
They Came to Baghdad
M or N?
All the rest of them :)
What are your favorites?
