Marple
- Keith Richards and Miss Marple: Separated at birth??
A Carribbean Mystery
The Thirteen Problems (The Tuesday Club Murders)
Poirot
“It is true that I can speak the exact, the idiomatic English. But, my friend, to speak the broken English is an enormous asset. It leads people to despise you. They say, “A foreigner; he can’t even speak English properly.” . . And so, you see, I put people off their guard. Besides, it has become a habit”-Three Act Tragedy
Random Poirot fact: Poirot is the only fictional character to be honored with a front page obituary in the New York Times.
Murder on the Orient Express
The ABC Murders
Holmes
The Adventure of the Speckled Band (short story)
The Sign of the Four (novel)
Interesting tidbit: In 1889, Doyle was commissioned to write The Sign of the Four for Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine at a dinner in London that was also attended by Oscar Wilde. Doyle described the dinner as a “golden evening” and Wilde contributed The Picture of Dorian Gray to the magazine one year later. I’m a huge Wilde fan so this was really interesting for me! I had really never connected the two authors.
Great sites:
Hercule Poirot Central (also a depot of Miss Marple and Agatha Christie in general- plus the site has amazing art deco design)
Sherlock Holmes Museum-If you are ever in London, please take their tour! I’ve been on it twice, once when I was 10 and once when I was 18, and it was equally enjoyable at both ages!
Side note: I’ve had to keep my faucets dripping at night for the past week due to Atlanta experiencing an actual form of Winter this year. I do not want to know how large my usually-$20 water bill is going to be for January.
Those look great! I loved that little known fact about poirot!
ha! great pic. all three will be new authors for me to read so it should be a good experience as they are all highly recommended.