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... kept guessing to the very end. If you can keep that rule you are more than halfway to success with any detective story. Agatha Christie, the author of this book, is no slouch at the game. She has quite a dozen red her rings in her inkpot and one by one thev ...
... POIROT INVESTIGATES. By Agatha Christie. (The Bodlev Head 7s. 6d.l POIROT INVESTIGATES. By Agatha Christie. (The Bodley Head 7s. 6d.) Natty, companionable, acute M. Poirot needs no introduction to readers of The Sketch, where he has made so many happy ...
... in that bright, clever, jolly style which you associate with the name of Agatha Christie, especially if you are a reader of this journal. But be on your guard. When Miss Christie is going to be most thrilling, she tries to disarm you by being at her most ...
... easily be higher than it is. Everything is concentrated on construction it is assumed that the writing does not matter. Agatha Christie is an exception to this all-too-common rule. Her Secret of Chimneys (The Bodley Head 7s. 6d.) does not, of course, aim ...
... Hercule Poirot, with thv waxed moustaches and eee-like head, full of rich yolky matter And doubly hail to thee, Mrs. Agatha Christie, for recalling Hercule, after some little interval, to our admiring attention in The Mystery of the Blue Train. If we ...
... capital adapter, a craftsman to his finger-tips. Who could have made a better play of Alibi, the clever pot-boiler of Agatha Christie, than he? He builds carefully, still clinging a little to Sardou's exposition manner, so that the first act rambles, in ...
... the book is not Mrs. Christie at her best the central idea has many possibilities, and the final sur prise is well managed, but the whole thing is loose in texture. It never really grips. I longed for some variation in Mrs. Christie's types of young men ...
... no intro- duction to the sagacious Belgian detective, M. Hercule Poirot, who solved the perplexing problems which Mrs. Agatha Christie set for him in these pages with such brilliant success. He first appeared on the stage in Alibi, and now he comes to ...
... be captious in the least. I enjoyed The Last Spring. ...
... Christopher Morlcy. (Faber attd Faber 6s.) The Young Revolutionist. By Pearl S. Buck. Methueu 3*. M Peril at End House. By Agatha Christie. Collins Js. 6 d.) What Dread Hand By Elizabeth Gill. (Cassell 7 s. Cpl.) ...
... composed songs to celebrate it) was a handicap to their activities as modern musketeers. What can one do but praise Miss Agatha Christie The Thirteen Problems are all ingenious and their solutions often surprising. This is a book which is to be altogether ...
... asylum, he will get many a good laugh from it. In any case, he will find it enthralling. A new detective story by Mrs. Agatha Christie Lord js aiwayS a delight, for at her poorest she com- Edgware pares favourably with most of her rivals at their best ...