Your Top Ten?
StathisZavitsanos
Attiki, Greece
My top Ten of Agatha Christie Novels
1. They Came to Baghdad
2. Death Comes as the End
3.Elephants Can Remember
4.The Big Four
5.The Pale horse
6.The clocks
7.Nemesis
8.Endless Night
9.N or M?
10. Dead Man's Folly
I am waiting for your top ten!
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10. Parker Pyne Investigates.
9. Sparkling Cyanide.
8. Curtain: Poirot's Last Case.
7. The Clocks.
6. A Murder is Announced.
5. The Mysterious Affair at Styles.
4. The Mousetrap.
3. The ABC Murders.
2. Murder on the Orient Express.
1. And Then There Were None.
- Then There Were None
- The complete Mr Quin collection (is that cheating?!)
- Murder On The Orient Express
- Death On The Nile
- Sad Cypress
- The Moving Finger
- Sleeping Murder
- Murder Is Easy
- Death In The Clouds
- Cards On The Table.
I really wanted to add The Pale Horse, body In The Library and some others. But I chose books that I enjoyed and that I thought were well written.Here they are:
1. Death on the Nile
2. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
3. Crooked House
4. The Secret Adversary
5. Peril at End House
1. Evil under the sun
2. And then they were none
3. Cards on the table
4. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
5. A Murder is Announced
6. The Murder at the Vicarage
7. The Moving Finger
8. Lord Edgware Dies
9. Why didn't they ask Evans?
10. ABC Murders
Except for the first three, the others aren't in order. And I really love Crooked House, Five Little Pigs, Murder on The Orient Express and Sleeping Murders. They aren't on the list, but I really love them and they should be.
1. Murder On The Orient Express
2. The ABC Murders
3. The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd
4. Cards On The Table
5. A Murder Is Announced
6. After The Funeral
7. Sad Cypress
8. Five Little Pigs
9. Hallowe'en Party
10. The Hollow
Top 5 consists of these books, I would arrange them in this way usually.
The rest in Top 10 are books I really liked and appreciate as excellent stories. Once I read more, I may update the list, as I already said.
Here's my Top Ten....................
1. And Then There Were None
2.Murder on the Orient Express
3. Murder of Roger Ackroyd
4. Cards on the Table
5. A Murder Is Announced
6. Crooked House
7. The ABC Murders
8.Towards Zero
9. Curtain
10. Death on the Nile
I really wanted to add The Tuesday Club Murders - I know that it's short stories but the great framing device of having them meet each week and take turns made it seem like one big book to me.
10: Poirot investigates
9: the mystery of the blue train
8:the murder at the vicarage
7:the man in the brown suite
6:the big four
5:then there were none
4:Murder on the Oriënt Express
3: Curtain
2: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
1: Death on the nile
My top ten are:
1. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
2. And Then There Were None
3. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
4. The Murder at the Vicarage
5. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
6. The Body in the Library
7. Lord Edgware Dies
8. Evil Under the Sun
9. Taken at the Flood
10. Third Girl
I've read a few others. I have the plays to read, the Miss Marple short stories, the Poirot Short Stories, misc short stories, and the Mary Westmacott's....I have too much to read and too little time!!!
My Top 10 are;
1) Cards On The Table
2) ABC Murders
3) The Clocks
4) A Murder Is Announced
5) Sleeping Murder
6) 4.50 From Paddington
7) Why Didn't They Ask Evans
8) The Sittaford Mystery
9) The Man In The Brown Suit
10) The Secret of Chimneys
They are in no particular order but the Poirot''s are in that order and the Miss Marple's are also, I should have put N or M somewhere but can't work out which I would leave out, perhaps people should put which are bubbling under, in my case it would be N or M Definitely, Death |In The Clouds and Evil Under The Sun and Body In The Library, I haven't included Books of short stories as I think that would be as unfair as Comparing a Poirot to a Miss Marple or ito put it non AC Book, Classic Poirot Signature tune with Joan Hickson Miss Marple theme tune
my top ten :
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
SPACE ( I CANNOT EPMHASIZE HOW MANY SPACES ARE HERE)
SPACE
SPACE
DEATH ON THE NILE
SPACE
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUE TRAIN
1,2 BUCKLE MY SHOE
ABC MURDER
PERIL AT END HOUSE
THE BODY IN THE LIBRARY
MURDER IS ANNOUNCED
THE MOVING FINGER
1. And Then There were None - first Christie I read when I was 12 or so , made a big impression
2. Crooked house -
3. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Classic Poirot Novel
4. Five Little Pigs - Interesting set up , this one.
5. Endless Night - the last pages sent a chill down my spine , truly evil
6. A Murder is Announced - Best Marple by far , Moving finger comes in 2nd
7. Sad Cypress - Classic poirot
8. After the Funeral - Classic Poirot
9. Hercule Poirot's Christmas - Love the atmosphere
10. Curtain - great swansong for poirot
also like ABC Murders , Cards on the Table en Pale Horse ( and alot more)
don't like : Big Four, Passenger for Frankfurt , Third Girl and especially Poster of fate ( that one is really bad I think)
as you can see I'm not a big tommy and tuppence fan ( N or M , is ok) , and there are only 3 Marples I really think are up to scratch with A.C' s best work ( A murder is announced , Moving Finger , Body in the library)
1. And then There Were None.
7. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
8. Murder in Mesopotamia
9. The Body IN The Library
Great novels, awesome reading experience:
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
And then they were none
Murder on the Oriënt Express
Crooked House
Endless Night
Death On the Nile
Cards On The Table
The body in the library
Murder in Mesopotamia
The Mousetrap
In no particular order (exept the first three)
1.Murder on the Links - my first book i've read and fell in love.
2.Murder on the Orient Express
3.Curtain
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4.Death on the Nile
5.The ABC Murders
6.After the Funeral
7.Crooked House
8.The Seven Dials Mystery
9.Cards on the Table
10.The Man in the Brown Suit