Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot are perhaps two of the best-known literary characters of all time, and her work has been adapted for film and television countless times. She wrote 72 novels, 14 short story collections, and one play, The Mousetrap, the longest-running in the world. To my shame, I have not read anything by Agatha Christie before, although I have stayed at the Old Swan Hotel in Harrogate, to which Agatha famously disappeared for nearly two weeks in 1926 after a row with her husband! She is quite extraordinary when you look at the stats: said to be the best-selling author of all time, her books have sold around two billion copies (yes two billion!) worldwide, second only to Shakespeare and the Bible.
I’ll start by reviewing the older of the two books.
I enjoyed both, but for very different reasons. Separated in terms of their publication by over 80 years the two titles are so different they could hardly be said to be part of the same genre but I don’t know enough about crime fiction to understand the path that links the two. I read Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, first published in 1934, and The Girl in the Green Dress by Cath Staincliffe who gave an excellent talk at the Northern Lights Writers Conference which I attended last year. OL471576W Page_number_confidence 94.83 Pages 350 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.19 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210203183700 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 662 Scandate 20210131180047 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Tts_version 4.I am not a big reader of crime fiction, but I read two over the Christmas holidays, as I feel this has been something of a gap in my education.
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