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Smellynerfherder t1_j5tejto wrote

I have yet to read a bad Christie! She was just fantastic.

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risingsuncoc t1_j5tfja2 wrote

The Mysterious Affair at Styles was quite a drag, but understandable since it was her very first book.

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Purdaddy t1_j5tmowl wrote

I have this one on my shelf, is there a better place to start with Christie?

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UrMomsPornAlt t1_j5ugjcf wrote

And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile.

Any of the more famous ones

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Gabriel_Wolfen t1_j605hbm wrote

I actually think The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a good place to start. It is more spare than her later novels, but you can see all the elements that characterize her mysteries. I didn't find it boring at all, and she does cleverly trick the reader, which is essentially her signature style.

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Gigigirl52 t1_j5xvctl wrote

I love Mysterious Affair at Styles. It is such a nice, comfortable book. For me, it is perfect for a lazy read. It reminds me of a Barbara Pym novel.

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datalaughing t1_j5ws2gi wrote

I didn't much care for The Big Four

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themehboat t1_j5wwicm wrote

That one was written after she had bizarrely faked her death and (according to some people) had tried to frame her ex-husband for her murder. She basically lost it and became a murder mystery character. It’s believed that her brother-in-law (or son-in-law? Something like that) actually wrote most of The Big Four as it was really nothing like her style.

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EverybodyLovesHugo t1_j5v3egf wrote

Postern of Fate is terrible.

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Volcano_Tequila t1_j60zs51 wrote

To me, it was Passenger to Frankfurt that was perfectly awful. A late novel, for sure, but it should never have been published.

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