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[know-it-all-freak]

A very very Happy New Year to everyone!!!

And since New Year's Day is on a Bush Wednesday, here's our favourite lieutenant sending his wishes!

Doctor Lord sends his wishes too!

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This lovely blue floral gown was first worn by Chloë Annett as Gertrude Winkworth in the 1992 episode of Jeeves and Wooster entitled Bertie Takes Gussie’s Place At Deverill Hall.

The piece was worn again by Elisabeth Dermot Walsh as Elinor Carlisle in the 2003 episode of Poirot entitled Sad Cypress.

Costume Credit: Gal_In_Calico

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[libinih28]

"if there was anyone to ever get through this life with their heart still in tact they didn't do it right"

-- Hozier, "all things end"

"to care passionately for another creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but all the same... one would not be without that experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived."

-- Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

[my-52-weeks-with-christie]

[adreamthatsworthkeeping]

Paul McGann is in Poirot playing a doctor.

[thelastofthebookworms]

Previous polls in this series :

- Poll 1 : popular edition

- Poll 2

- Poll 3

- Poll 4

[sintaspeaks]

Reading 7 Hercule Poirot Books! (SPOILERS)

Promoting an old video! I'm itching to re-start my Poirot Project soon so look out for more reviews soon! In this video, I read Mrs. McGinty's Dead, Third Girl, Peril At End House, Murder On the Links, Sad Cypress, Hercule Poirot's Christmas, and Dead Man's Folly. I like to make these big batches because I like to constrast and compare each book with each other.

[hitchell-mope]

Oh wow. Elsie’s the murderer. Who’d a thunk it?

[ringosnoop]

something i've noticed as i've started reading unillustrated fiction again is that i mimic the characters' facial expressions and action as i imagine them, as if i was drawing them or writing them myself

and i'm genuinely surprised no one's pointed this out to me yet, considering how obsessed people are with calling attention to my resting bitch face

[silverfoxstole]

in the interest of feeding my developing celebrity crush on Paul McGann, what other movies of his do you recommend?

These are personal preferences but:

Sweet Revenge, a two-part drama in which Paul plays a university professor who arranges paybacks in his spare time (Part One) (Part Two)

Perplexed Music is a short film written and directed by Paul’s brother Mark and also features his younger son, Sonny. Paul plays a widower coming to terms with his loss.

I’ve always been fond of short-lived series Fish, where Paul is an employment lawyer struggling to cope with raising his son on his own after his wife goes off to ‘find herself’.

Give Us A Break, a very early role, a comedy drama series co-starring with Robert Lindsay. Here he’s the younger brother of ducker and diver Lindsay’s girlfriend, who turns out to be good at snooker, something Lindsay decides to try and make use of. Probably the most Scouse you’ll hear Paul on screen!

Paper Mask Hospital porter wants to be a doctor. It does not go well.

Luther Not to everyone’s taste and some episodes are rather unpleasant (3 and 5 of the first series) but I want to take Mark North home.

Withnail and I, of course; every Paul fan needs to see it at least once! (No active link for this one that I can find right now)

If you fancy a documentary, Victorian Sensations: Decadence and Degeneration is a strange but compelling watch, and one that Paul presents rather than just narrates.

And here he is talking about Hornblower

@prydon made a filmography masterlist (from which some of these links have been gratefully taken) which is well worth a look. His CV tends to range through Great, Good, WTF did I just watch? and Oh, dear God, why?! but I can also recommend Our Mutual Friend, Forgotten and Poirot: Sad Cypress. I know other people would say you should definitely see The Monocled Mutineer and The Hanging Gale (the latter stars all four McGann brothers) but I personally found those two too depressing to watch more than once. Horses for courses.

Whatever you choose, enjoy! 😀

[know-it-all-freak]

Some random Paul gifs from my files. I wanted to post more, but unfortunately I am not on my laptop right now. Anyways, have a very...

Happy McGann Monday!!

(As always, credits to the creators of the gifs.)

( The sixth one though....😂😂😂)

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Agatha Christie Books in Order.

Hercule Poirot Books

Hercule Poirot Collections

Miss Marple Books

Miss Marple Collections

Tommy and Tuppence Books

Tommy and Tuppence Collections

Superintendent Battle Books

Standalone Novels

Short Story Collections

Non-Fiction Books

Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot books in order

Here are the names of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot books in order. It will help you start with your reading while ensuring the best experience.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)    

The Murder on the Links (1923)     

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)      

The Big Four (1927)    

The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)     

Peril at End House (1932)     

Lord Edgware Dies (1933)    

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)      

Three Act Tragedy (1935)    

Death in the Clouds (1935)   

The A.B.C. Murders (1936)   

Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)      

Cards on the Table (1936)    

Dumb Witness (1937)  

Death on the Nile (1937)      

Appointment with Death (1938)    

Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (1938)  

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940)

Sad Cypress (1940)     

Evil Under the Sun (1941)    

Five Little Pigs (1942)  

The Hollow (1946)      

Taken at the Flood (1948)    

Mrs. McGinty’s Dead (1952)  

After the Funeral (1953)      

Hickory Dickory Dock (1955)

Dead Man’s Folly (1956)       

Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)      

The Clocks (1963)       

Third Girl (1966)

Hallowe’en Party (1969)       

Elephants Can Remember (1972)  

Curtain (1975)      

The Monogram Murders (2014)

Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot Collections in Order

Poirot Investigates (1924)    

Murder in the Mews (1937)

The Labours of Hercules (1947)

Poirot’s Early Cases (1974)

Agatha Christie Miss Marple Books in Order

Here is the list of Agatha Christie’s books in order based on their publication date.

The Murder at the Vicarage (1930)

The Body in the Library (1942)      

The Moving Finger (1942)    

A Murder is Announced (1950)      

They Do It with Mirrors (1952)      

A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)  

4:50 From Paddington (1957)       

The Mirror Crack’d (1962)    

A Caribbean Mystery (1964)

At Bertram’s Hotel (1965)    

Nemesis (1971) 

Sleeping Murder (1976)

Agatha Christie Miss Marple Collection in Order

The Thirteen Problems (1932)       

Miss Marple’s Final Cases (1979)

Agatha Christie’s Tommy and Tuppence Books in Order

Here’s the list of Agatha Christie Tommy and Tuppence Books in Order

The Secret Adversary (1922)

N or M? (1941)  

By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968)     

Postern of Fate (1973)

Agatha Christie’s Tommy and Tuppence Collections in Order

Partners in Crime (1929)

Agatha Christie’s Superintendent Battle Books in Order

Here’s the list of Agatha Christie Superintendent Battle Books in Order

The Secret of Chimneys (1925)      

The Seven Dials Mystery (1929)   

Cards on the Table (1936)    

Murder is Easy (1939)

Towards Zero (1944)

Agatha Christie’s Standalone Novels in Order

Here’s the list of Agatha Christie Standalone Novels in Order

The Man in the Brown Suit (1924)  

Giant’s Bread (1930)   

The Sittaford Mystery (1931)

Unfinished Portrait (1934)    

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (1934)       

And Then There Were None (1939)

Absent in the Spring (1944)  

Death Comes as the End (1944)    

Sparkling Cyanide (1945)     

The Rose and the Yew Tree (1948)

Crooked House (1949)

They Came to Baghdad (1951)      

A Daughter’s a Daughter (1952)    

Destination Unknown (1954)

The Burden (1956)      

Ordeal by Innocence (1958)

The Pale Horse (1961)

Endless Night (1967)   

13 at Dinner (1969)    

Passenger to Frankfurt (1970)       

The Murder at Hazelmoor (1984)

Agatha Christie’s Short Story Collections in Order

Here’s the list of Agatha Christie Short Story Collections in Order

The Mysterious Mr. Quin (1930)    

The Hound of Death (1933)  

The Listerdale Mystery (1934)       

Parker Pyne Investigates (1934)    

The Regetta Mystery and Other Stories (1939)

The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (1948)  

Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1950)      

The Under Dog and Other Stories (1951)

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960)       

Double Sin and Other Stories (1961)      

Star Over Bethlehem and Other Stories (1965)

The Golden Ball and Other Stories (1974)

The problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (1991)    

The Harlequin Tea Set (1997)       

While the Light Lasts and Other Stories (1997)

Agatha Christie’s Non-Fiction Books in Order

Here’s the list of Agatha Christie Non-Fiction Books in Order

Come, Tell Me How You Live (1946)       

Agatha Christie: An Autobiography (1977)

Top 10 Agatha Christie Books to Read

Given the number of books in the Agatha Christie series, readers generally hesitate to begin. Further, to understand the series well, one needs to read Agatha Christie’s novels in order. To ease things, the readers generally look for the best novels or books to read them directly and avoid all the hassle. So here are the top 10 Agatha Christie novels that will offer you the best mystery story reading experience.

[mzannthropy]

Captain Arthur Hastings may be Hercule Poirot's sidekick, but he's not like Sherlock's Watson. He doesn't feature as much, besides I don't think they actually live together in the books, or at least not long term. (The Agatha Christie's Poirot TV series is different.) I think Agatha was inspired by Sherlock Holmes originally, when she started writing her mystery books; the Sherlock influence in her early Poirot cases is clear, especially the short stories. (The Adventure of the Western Star, the first story in the Poirot Investigates collection, is very Sherlock/Watson at the beginning: Hastings looking out of the window, telling Poirot to deduce something about the woman walking the street towards Poirot's flat.) Poirot also retires to the countryside to grow vegetable marrows, similar to Sherlock's beekeeping retirement--only it doesn't last long; much like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha had no idea how long she'd end up writing the guy. Later, when she developed her own style, she left Hastings out. I'd actually argue that the best Poirot books don't have Hastings (although, as with everything, YMMW).

Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, Five Little Pigs, Sad Cypress, The Hollow, Evil Under the Sun, After the Funeral, Hercule Poirot's Christmas are all Hastings-less. Then again, Hastings is in Lord Edgware Dies and ABC Murders, both classic cases and, of course, the first and the last Poirot books, The Mysterious Affair at Styles and Curtain.

I think as well that always having to have Hastings by Poirot's side, narrating the story, would have limited her. She uses different POVs across her books.

This is not a love or hate post, btw, or anything against Hastings, I'm just writing out my thoughts. Also you can reblog with your favourite Hastings or non-Hastings Poirot book if you want.

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Cooking With Christie: Outtake

This Creamy Orzo with Parmesan & Green Peas is relegated to the outtakes as it’s made with all kids of stuff I’m allergic too (and therefore poisoned myself slightly when I tried a bite) like white wine, onions and garlic. However my husband enjoyed it, so if you want to try the recipe, it’s in the book below (which is full of plenty non-allergy inducing dishes, I just possess the brains of a…

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Hercule Poirot Mystery Aesthetics: Sad Cypress

"I can understand the ache of the heart. It is a place very lonely".

[therealvinelle]

As a casual Agatha Christie fan, I am delighted by that recommendation. Do you have any other favorite books from her?

Sure!

And Then There Were None Ten people go to an island, it does not go well. This one stands out in that it has a good adaptation!

Appointment with Death The murder is ingenius and all in this one, but what I particularly enjoy is how well Christie captures the power an abusive mother can have over her adult children, it's a dynamic you don't often see in fiction (at least not played out this way).

Cards on the Table M. Shaitana has a fantastic idea: he's going to invite four murderers and four law enforcers to his house for a night of bridge, and he's going to stir up as much drama as possible. Things do not go well for M. Shaitana. (Stay miles away from the Suchet adaptation)

Crooked House The patriarch of an affluent family dies, and his twelve-year-old granddaughter decides to investigate. I was the same age when I first read it, which made the ending uh interesting.

Curtain Poirot finds the perfect murderer.

Death on the Nile Makes the list for many reasons, it's such a classical Christie but also because nobody agrees with Jackie's life choices, not even Jackie.

Hallowe'en Party A child claims to have witnessed a murder, no one believes her. A few hours later she's found murdered. I mostly like this one for the utterly insane murderer. What a champ.

Murder on the Orient Express There's a murder on the Orient Express. (If you want a film version, the 1974 version is the best. Suchet's version is... melodramatic, I don't like its ending but it had a fantastic opening scene, while the Branagh version is an atrocity, do not watch.)

Ordeal by Innocence Five years ago Arthur Calgary nerded about penguins to some random guy then left for Antarctica the next day. It was great. Now he returns to England only to find that the man was Jacob Argyle, and he was accused of murdering his mother that night. He kept claiming his alibi was some penguin guy and could give very specific, identifying details that five years later make Arthur Calgary "yup, that's me!", but Calgary was in Antarctica at the time so he never came forward. And uh Jacob died in prison in the meantime. But, Calgary tells himself, the important thing is that Jacob was innocent, right? Right? The Argyle family, who had finally put this behind them only to learn that their brother was innocent and one of the remaining members did it, don't agree.

Sad Cypress Elinor Carlisle is sad. She's about to hang for a double homicide she might not have committed, but even without that she'd still be pretty miserable.

The Secret Adversary I felt I had to recommend a Tommy and Tuppence, and while I don't remember much of any of them I'll just recommend the first one in the series. Tommy and Tuppence books are more political thriller than the usual fare, great fun if you want to switch things up during your Christie binge. (Do not touch ITV's By the Pricking of My Thumbs, though.)

The Mirror Crack'd One of my all-time favorites and weirdly formative. Miss Marple is grappling with the realities of old age, and solves a murder along the way. It's more character heavy than many of Christie's books, people do the things they do because it is in their nature and they can't escape it.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles The very first one! It makes the list for that. And because if you plan to read Curtain, you should read this one first as it references this one a lot.

Towards Zero Following the logic that the murder isn't the beginning of the story, but rather the culmination of one, this story is building towards the zero point - the moment the murder will occur.

Honestly, anon, I'm just listing Christies I fondly remember, I can keep going but the post will just get unreasonably long. Go read Agatha Christie, she's great.

Hercule Poirot's Christmas and A Pocketful of Rye get special shoutouts because while I haven't read the books, the ITV adaptations were really good, the former particularly with the casting and the latter particularly with the way the reveal was done. Same goes for One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, haven't read it but the adaptation was great.

(Overall I'm ambivalent about ITV's adaptations, the Poirot series wanted to be a fairly light, feelgood show the whole family could watch after dinner, and while both series liked to change things from the books and overall make them more daytime television, the Miss Marple series changed a lot more than the Poirot series did. They both have a nasty habit of putting Poirot and Marple in stories they weren't originally, usually to the story's detriment (passive aggressive shoutout to By the Pricking of My Thumbs). It's annoying, though does make it hilarious that they couldn't put Poirot in Crooked House.

They're still entertaining and I don't turn off the TV when an episode is on unless it's one of the bad ones, but... well it's daytime television-ified Christie.)