![]() Stick to Christie's books from the 1930s and 1940sĪt the risk of incurring the wrath of passionate Christiephiles, I will say this right up front: Christie published roughly a book every year, but she peaked in the 1930s and 1940s. Spoilers are everywhere, and the people doing the spoiling often don't even realize that they're doing it. Don't read their Wikipedia pages or their comments on Amazon, and don't discuss them with anyone in advance. Don't do any research before reading these books. It's all too easy to come across seemingly innocuous information that can ruin the central mystery of an Agatha Christie book. Time Out Tip: Find these books at the Mysterious Bookshop in Tribeca, Books Are Magic in Cobble Hill and Astoria Bookshop in Astoria. (I have left out the six non-crime books that Christie wrote as Mary Westmacott.) All of them are the authorized American editions published by HarperCollins’s William Morrow imprint. Below are my recommendations of the best books by Agatha Christie, starting with an overall list of essentials and then moving on to rankings in four categories, according to the books’ principal crime-solvers: 34 books with Hercule Poirot, the fussy Belgian egghead with an elaborate mustache 13 books with Miss Marple, the elderly village spinster who hides a sharp brain beneath her fluffy hair 5 books with Tommy and Tuppence, a married couple who age in more or less real time throughout their appearances and 23 books in which none of them are the main characters. Having collected all the evidence, I humbly submit my findings to you now. That's right, all of them: the great, the good, the mediocre and the quite bad. In the span of nine months, I read or reread all 66 of Christie's crime novels and all 188 of her short stories. ![]() But it was three years ago, during the pandemic shutdown, that I renewed my obsession in earnest. Like many other Christiephiles, I got hooked in my childhood-Dame Agatha's straightforward writing makes her accessible to a wide range of readers-and I've revisited her work from time to time with pleasure since then. How can readers find their way amid the vast Christie corpus? For the uninitiated, the sheer volume of Christie's output in her 55-year career is daunting, and not all of her work is equally worthwhile. The trouble is, she wrote so many that it's hard to know where to start. (She also wrote the world’s longest-running play, The Mousetrap, which was slated to finally reach Broadway this year and may still make it.)Ĭhristie's best books are quick, enormously entertaining reads that are perfectly suited to vacations or lazy days. ![]() Naturally, then, I have always been drawn to the Queen of Crime, Dame Agatha Christie, whose mastery of the form has made her the best-selling fiction writer of all time her novels and collections of short stories have sold more than two billion copies and have inspired countless film and TV adaptations. What I do enjoy is fake crime: puzzle mysteries in which clues are available but carefully obscured, so that readers can match wits with a detective who, in the final chapters, makes everything click into place. I’ve never been a huge fan of true crime as a literary genre the real world is scary enough already. Oh, and aother thing the dealer should not repeat the same phrases over and over again to make the experience truly work."Let Me Tell You" is a series of columns from our expert editors about NYC living, including the best things to do, where to eat and drink, and what to see at the theater. couldn't I take the sword, the shild and the burden and given the return place all at once? I understand the first time, but every time showing each card separately and having to do as many clicks accordingly? Also not making us able to view our equipment before making any choice is bad. also quests like Hero Remains or require way too much clicks to pass. I hope you make it harder to misclick in the sequel, and I also hope the sequel will be easier to skip shops faster and not go in there accidentally. ![]() ![]() Since you're clicking the repetitive text away and then it mistakenly automatically select the first answer upon another click. Another suggestion for the sequel In the game the answers are too easy to misclick. It's on us to communicate this stuff better in the sequel.īut Abysss24 asks a good question: What are some effective ways to handle the King of Scales challenge? My general approach is gritting my teeth and swearing about too many curses. Originally posted by Lee:There's a fair amount of easily-ignored text in Hand of Fate - boss powers and scenario curses are at the top of the list. ![]()
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