... might say and what remains with us is just the vision that inspired the author the passing of a beautiful house. n Mrs. Agatha Christie is subject to the danger that llie Danger besets a]j writers of detective stories the danger of Sen y- using human beings ...

... 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 ...

... still more impressive exhibition of the author's powers only then it would have been a different book. Aeatha Christie Whether Mrs. Agatha Christie is the best detective- story writer we have is a moot point but she is certainly the most versatile and among ...

... 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 ...

... protest, does not bear much relation to the everyday world. No reader of detective stories can afford to miss a book by Agatha Christie no one can fail to be astonished by the ingenuity of Ten Little Niggers. One cannot avoid the fear that the author s ...

... most conventional kind. Of all the practitioners of the detective story, none has so many strings to her bow as Mrs. Agatha Christie. She, too, binds herself by conventions, but often they are conventions that she herself creates, and are rarely twice ...

... con cludes all help to emphasise it. Hercule Poirot's Christmas. Criticised for making her murders too anaemic, Mrs. Agatha Christie has accepted the challenge. When old Simeon Lee is found dead on Christ mas Eve there is so much blood spilt all round ...

... South of France we poor fish not even helped by a bit of fennel had not. Triple Bill consisted of an adaptation of an Agatha Christie short story which, if we remember aright, read better than it adapted a charming trifle of Irish non sense by Mr. Denis ...

... Again. In Sad Cypress, Mrs. Agatha Christie deserts the fantastic settings which have added piquancy to her later stories, and re turns to a domestic atmosphere and to .Poirot. On the balance, we are the gainers. Mrs. Christie's skill is that of a con jurer ...

... 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 ...

... Its cunning as a puzzle-play is the one thing to recommend this piece, adapted by Moie Charles and Barbara Toy from the Agatha Christie novel. True, there is some satisfactory acting by Barbara Mullen (local spinster) and Reginald Tate (local artist) but ...

... be captious in the least. I enjoyed The Last Spring. ...