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Feb 15, 2017

Agatha Christie Guest Book

Agatha Christie Guest Book: Many thanks for visiting the All About Agatha Christie website. Any feedback you have would be gratefully received.

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May 23, 2013

Hercule Poirot

Hercule Poirot: I guess every Agatha Christie fan has his or her own mental image of what the great Belgian detective looks like...

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Mar 04, 2013

Agatha Christie Links

Agatha Christie Links: Only the very best websites make it on to this page.

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Jan 29, 2013

10 Things You Should Know About Agatha Christie

10 Things You Should Know About Agatha Christie

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Aug 29, 2012

How to Host Successful Murder Mystery Parties, Detective Games, Murder Mystery D

Free information and tips on hosting Murder mystery parties, detective games, a murder mystery

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Aug 29, 2012

Introducing The Best Free Murder Mystery Games Available Online

I've scoured the Internet looking for free murder mystery games more out of hope than expectation that I'd be able to find some high quality ones; but much to my delight, the good old BBC ...

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Aug 29, 2012

How To Make A Miss Marple Afternoon Tea

Miss Marple afternoon tea anyone? Not only does she knit and solve crimes but Agatha Christie's quintessentially English detective Miss Marple makes an afternoon tea to die for.

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Aug 29, 2012

Wonderful collection of Quotes About Happiness

Showcasing a timeless collection of happiness quotes and sayings

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Aug 29, 2012

Wonderful collection of Quotes About Marriage

Showcasing a timeless collection of marriage quotes and sayings

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Aug 29, 2012

Wonderful Collection of Quotes About Life

Showcasing a timeless collection of life quotes and sayings

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Aug 29, 2012

Wonderful collection of Friendship Quotes & Sayings

Showcasing a timeless collection of frienship quotes and sayings

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Aug 29, 2012

Wonderful collection of Love Quotes & Sayings

Showcasing a timeless collection of love quotes and sayings

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Aug 29, 2012

Wonderful collection of Quotes & Sayings

Showcasing a timeless collection of quotes and sayings

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Aug 29, 2012

Murder Mystery Questions And Answers (Q & A) Page

The murder mystery questions page is a knowledge sharing resource where anybody can ask or answer a question relating to the fascinating world of murder mystery.

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Aug 29, 2012

Fear Paints A Picture: Classic Radio Show

Fear Paints A Picture was first broadcast on the 13th April 1943 as part of the CBS 'Suspense' radio drama.

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Aug 29, 2012

The ABC Murders: Classic Radio Version

The ABC Murders was first broadcast on the 18th May 1943 as part of the CBS Suspense radio drama series.

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Aug 29, 2012

The Lodger: Classic Radio Drama

The Lodger was first broadcast in 1940 as part of the CBS Suspense radio drama series.

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Aug 22, 2012

10 Things You Should Know About Miss Marple

10 Things You Should Know About Miss Marple

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Aug 22, 2012

10 Things You Should Know About Hercule Poirot

10 Things You Should Know About Hercule Poirot

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Aug 20, 2012

Agatha Christie Store

Agatha Christie Store: Showcasing a great collection of gift ideas.

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Aug 20, 2012

Agatha Christie Poll Page

Agatha Christie poll page featuring a series of questions that tend to divide opinion.

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Aug 20, 2012

Agatha Christie Trivia

Agatha Christie Trivia: On an occasional basis, I intend to share little snippets of interesting information with the visitors to the website.

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Aug 19, 2012

Agatha Christie Novels: The Old Sleight of Hand Trick

Agatha Christie Novels: I can’t be the only person to have identified the trick she uses to distract us from guessing the true culprit...

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Aug 19, 2012

Agatha Christie's Disappearance

Agatha Christie's Disappearance: Her car was found abandoned at a local beauty spot close to her home in Sunningdale in Surrey on the 3rd of December 1926...

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Aug 19, 2012

Witness For The Prosecution

Witness for the prosecution by Agatha Christie is a short story that first appeared under the name of 'Traitor Hands' in 1925.

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Aug 19, 2012

Parker Pyne

Parker Pyne Investigates is a collection of short stories. This is possibly one of Agatha Christie's lesser-known books, but well worth a read.

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Aug 19, 2012

The Listerdale Mystery

The Listerdale Mystery is the title of a collection of twelve short stories by Agatha Christie, which are for the most part lighthearted adventures, but with a few rather more sinister tales as well.

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Aug 19, 2012

Murder on the Orient Express

In Murder on the Orient Express is brilliantly plotted and for those who have never read the book before, the denouement (one of Agatha Christie’s best in my opinion) is astounding.

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Aug 18, 2012

The Thirteen Problems

In The Thirteen Problems, a group of six friends are having a sociable evening at Miss Marple’s charming house when the conversation gets round to unsolved mysteries.

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Aug 18, 2012

Ordeal by innocence

Ordeal by Innocence is unusual in that it is what might be termed a ‘retrospective’ whodunit. The actual murder had taken place two years previously, and a suspect tried and found guilty.

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Aug 18, 2012

After The Funeral

After The Funeral opens with all the requisite elements of a classical murder mystery. The family of the recently deceased Richard Abernethie are gathered for the reading of his will.

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Aug 18, 2012

They Do It With Mirrors

They Do It With Mirrors is a wonderful title for this novel, because at the heart of the plot is a brilliantly concealed conjuring trick.

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Aug 18, 2012

They Came to Baghdad

They Came to Baghdad is an unusual Agatha Christie novel. It’s about espionage, international intrigue, mysterious organisations and the like...

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Aug 17, 2012

A Murder Is Announced

A Murder Is Announced: It is not often that a murderer announces the time and place of his or her crime, but that is precisely what happens...

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Aug 17, 2012

Agatha Christie: A Free & Comprehensive Guide To Her Life & Work

Agatha Christie. Find out all about the queen of crime. Her biography, her writing, her detectives and much more.

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Aug 17, 2012

Crooked House

Crooked House is a very good murder mystery and when everything is explained, I am sure most first time readers will find they have once again been bamboozled.

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Aug 17, 2012

Taken at the Flood

Taken at the Flood takes place during and just after the Second World War. Immensely rich Gordon Cloade, along with three servants, is killed when his house is hit during the Blitz.

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Aug 17, 2012

Sparkling Cyanide

Sparkling Cyanide is a good, well crafted, Agatha Christie murder mystery. There is a distinct shortage of solid clues, but careful reading reveals...

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Aug 17, 2012

Death Comes As The End

Death Comes As The End is surely Agatha Christie’s most bizarre novel. The story takes place in Ancient Egypt about 2000 BC and concerns a series of murders within the family of the Ka priest Imhotep.

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Aug 17, 2012

Towards Zero

Towards Zero is vintage Agatha Christie in that it involves murder in an English Country House, with a varied assortment of suspects.

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Aug 17, 2012

The Moving Finger

The Moving Finger is one of a handful of Agatha Christie murder mystery novels that is written in the first person by a man (other than Hastings, that is.)

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Aug 17, 2012

The Body in the Library

The Body in the Library is a vintage Miss Marple murder mystery. The crime takes place at Gossington Hall, the home of Colonel and Mrs Bantry who feature in several Miss Marple stories.

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Aug 17, 2012

N or M

N or M is not the usual murder mystery we associate with Agatha Christie, however, it is an exciting spy yarn and there are murders along the way.

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Aug 17, 2012

Evil Under the Sun

Evil Under the Sun is one of Agatha Christie’s most diabolically clever murder mystery plots and I take my hat off to anyone who manages to work it all out.

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Aug 16, 2012

One Two Buckle My Shoe

One Two Buckle My Shoe: It would appear that Hercule Poirot cannot even visit his dentist without murder rearing its ugly head!

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Aug 16, 2012

And Then There Were None

And Then There Were None must rank as one of Agatha Christie’s most fiendishly clever novels, and that’s saying something...

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Aug 16, 2012

Hercule Poirots Christmas

In ‘Hercule Poirots Christmas’ Agatha Christie creates one of her most unlikeable characters in Simeon Lee...

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Aug 16, 2012

Murder in Mesopotamia

Murder in Mesopotamia is written in the first person by Nurse Amy Leatheran, and concerns the members of an archaeological expedition in Iraq...

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Aug 16, 2012

Why Didn't They Ask Evans

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? has as its main characters two Bright Young People from the upper/middle classes. No, it’s not Tommy and Tuppence...

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Aug 16, 2012

Peril At End House

Peril at end House is good, solid Agatha Christie murder mystery fare. I would say the red herrings outnumber the clues, but the clues are there...

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