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Murder on the Orient Express / Death on the Nile / The Mirror Cracked / The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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First published December 5, 2003
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Agatha Christie
5,748 books76k followersAgatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.
This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater.
Associated Names:
Agata Christie
Agata Kristi
Агата Кристи (Russian)
Агата Крісті (Ukrainian)
Αγκάθα Κρίστι (Greek)
アガサ クリスティ (Japanese)
阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂 (Chinese)
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.
This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater.
Associated Names:
Agata Christie
Agata Kristi
Агата Кристи (Russian)
Агата Крісті (Ukrainian)
Αγκάθα Κρίστι (Greek)
アガサ クリスティ (Japanese)
阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂 (Chinese)
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December 27, 2020
Delightful collection, and looking forward to reading those I haven't yet read.
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Murder on the Orient Express
Another one from the writer that lends to a spectacular film - with the spectacular setting and the high profile story of a murder on the famous Orient Express from Istanbul to Paris, discovered while the snow has made the train stop, since a pass in the mountains in untraversable. There are a whole lot of charcters that could have done it - and the story unfolds to say what motive who had, as Monsieur Poirot happens to be at hand travelling on the train, willing and ready to conduct the investigation.
October 18, 2008.
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Death on the Nile
One of the most famous from this writer, not the least due to the spectacular film - the story does lend itself to a spectacular film, rather. A beautiful young woman who is a rich heiress, with a brand new handsome bridegroom, setting out on her honeymoon - only, he had unceremoniously ditched his previous lover when he saw the beauty he married, and it so happened the two young women had been best friends, in fact that is how the couple had met. Now, the spurned lover is haunting them on the honeymoon, she is there everywhere they can and do go, no matter how carefully they camouflage their plans. Finally they are on a cruise on the Nile together, and she joins the cruise just as they are congratualting each other. Now there is no escape. And then begin the deaths...
October 21, 2008.
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The Mirror Cracked
One of the most poignant stories penned by the author, even in this format - it is a mystery, murder thriller, and solved by the unlikely looking detective underestimated by most who don't know her. Not too many murder mystery thrillers leave your heart totally in compassion with the one who perpetrated the horrors, the murders, in spite of your being completely in favour of law abiding and against the murders and in no way approving of the actions taken by the killer. One dislikes, disapproves and hates the person who is going about creating this terror, with multiple murders, and yet when one finally does get to the solution - and who better at finding this sort of mystery than the frail looking old woman with woolly hair, twinkling eyes, and generally a gentle demeanor who happens to observe unobtrusively and think sharp with her worldly experience adding to her detecting abilities - when she finally explains this one, it leaves you wrenched with compassion for the killer.
October 17, 2008.
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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Murder on the Orient Express
Another one from the writer that lends to a spectacular film - with the spectacular setting and the high profile story of a murder on the famous Orient Express from Istanbul to Paris, discovered while the snow has made the train stop, since a pass in the mountains in untraversable. There are a whole lot of charcters that could have done it - and the story unfolds to say what motive who had, as Monsieur Poirot happens to be at hand travelling on the train, willing and ready to conduct the investigation.
October 18, 2008.
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Death on the Nile
One of the most famous from this writer, not the least due to the spectacular film - the story does lend itself to a spectacular film, rather. A beautiful young woman who is a rich heiress, with a brand new handsome bridegroom, setting out on her honeymoon - only, he had unceremoniously ditched his previous lover when he saw the beauty he married, and it so happened the two young women had been best friends, in fact that is how the couple had met. Now, the spurned lover is haunting them on the honeymoon, she is there everywhere they can and do go, no matter how carefully they camouflage their plans. Finally they are on a cruise on the Nile together, and she joins the cruise just as they are congratualting each other. Now there is no escape. And then begin the deaths...
October 21, 2008.
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The Mirror Cracked
One of the most poignant stories penned by the author, even in this format - it is a mystery, murder thriller, and solved by the unlikely looking detective underestimated by most who don't know her. Not too many murder mystery thrillers leave your heart totally in compassion with the one who perpetrated the horrors, the murders, in spite of your being completely in favour of law abiding and against the murders and in no way approving of the actions taken by the killer. One dislikes, disapproves and hates the person who is going about creating this terror, with multiple murders, and yet when one finally does get to the solution - and who better at finding this sort of mystery than the frail looking old woman with woolly hair, twinkling eyes, and generally a gentle demeanor who happens to observe unobtrusively and think sharp with her worldly experience adding to her detecting abilities - when she finally explains this one, it leaves you wrenched with compassion for the killer.
October 17, 2008.
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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June 26, 2021
This is the first book by Agatha Christie I've read. I don't know why it took me so long, it was such a delight to read. Wonderful summer reading.
February 10, 2022
I always love mystery novels...this one was best I have read
March 14, 2023
Two of her most brilliant crime stories and ingenious plots.
July 24, 2024
I was surprised 😯😯🔥
R.I.P Agatha Christie (:
R.I.P Agatha Christie (:
July 14, 2025
The ending took me off guard, loved the last few pages with all of my heart. we had this novel assigned by our literature teacher so she could give us an exam based off of it and I had a blast
April 24, 2021
Good novel. I felt a little confused with the characters in the beginning though. Very well crafted and written. Well explained.
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December 4, 2025
this was the first book when i got hit by agatha Christie and after that no agathas book has the same effect.
May 25, 2008
I've read a number of the Agatha Christie mysteries. I'm listing an amalgamated 4-star review for them here.
November 27, 2010
I reread or listen to all of Agatha Christie's book about ever two years. And I love Miss Marple. I'd love to be Miss Marple!!!
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