Agatha Christie was known to her readers as the ‘Queen of Crime’ and so popular are her books that she is outsold only by Shakespeare! Murder maker, plot weaver, and storyteller extraordinaire, Christie was also the creator of Miss Marple and the infamous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot,
As well as being both gripping and saturated in ‘atmosphere of evil’, her books also offer the contemporary reader a charming ‘between the wars’ insight into a quintessential England and a world now almost forgotten. Her books are the perfect holiday read, but with over 70 to choose from which are the real page-turners and describe the most marvellous of pre-meditated murders? I asked an expert and here is the Agatha Christie pick of the crop:
- Nemesis
- Dumb Witness
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- Evil Under the Sun
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- A Pocket Full of Rye
