Detective's best and worse ?

maryamalbulushimaryamalbulushi Oman
in General Agatha Christie discussions
If you have to decide what is ( Poirot's, miss Marple's  and Tommy and Tuppence's ) best and worse AC's book , which one will choose ??

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  • anne.clough.3anne.clough.3

    This is in my personal opinion, the ones I like best and worst.

    Poirot - Best - Cat Among the Pigeons. Worst - The Hollow

    Miss Marple - Best - Sleeping Murder. Worst - At Bertrams Hotel

    Tommy and Tuppence - Best - N or M. Worst - Postern of Fate.


    If you go for non-series ones then;

    Best - The Pale Horse and And Then There Were None

    Worst - Passenger to Frankfurt

  • maryamalbulushimaryamalbulushi Oman
    can you believe that i wanted to read the hollow since 3 years ago, but i didn't !!! because one of my friend spoiled the end for me and told me who is the murderer :(  now i don't wanna read it 
  • anne.clough.3anne.clough.3
    edited May 2014

    I didn't like The Hollow, at all. It was the characters of the victim and his mistress that I hated,  and I felt sorry for the murderer.

    I had a friend spoil The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. I have to admit I didn't believe her but she was right!

    We were in high school and I had been reading it and put it down. She picked it up, turned to end and read a crucial line. I thought she had misread it.

  • FrankFrank Queensland, Australia

    The ones I like best are:

    Poirot - Death on the Nile

    Miss Marple - 4.50 From Paddington

    Tommy and Tuppence -  N or M.

    Non-series - And Then There Were None

    The Worst? No such thing as a bad Christie

  • Tommy_A_JonesTommy_A_Jones Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

    The ones I like best are;

    Poirot                           ABC Murders/Cards On The Table/Clocks

    Miss Marple                 A Murder Is Announced/4.50 From Paddington/Sleeping Murder

    The Beresfords            N or M

    The ones I like least are;

    Poirot                            Murder In Mesopotamia

    Miss Marple                  They Do It With Mirrors

    The Beresfords             By The Pricking of My Thumb

  • Tommy_A_JonesTommy_A_Jones Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
    Non-Series - Endless Night. Passenger \To Frankfurt and Death Comes As the End
  • Tommy_A_JonesTommy_A_Jones Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

    I frgot, those were in the worst category, best Non-series are Why Didn't They Ask Evans? and The Sittaford Mystery.

    Best Race book is The Mystery of The Blue Train and best Battle book any except for Murder Is Easy which I do like what do others think of Battle and Race books? My least favourite Race book is Sparkling Cyanide, I am not keen on that book.

  • Christopher_WrenChristopher_Wren Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
    Best Poirot novel: Murder on the Orient Express/Murder of Roger Ackroyd
    Best Poirot/Hastings novel: ABC Murders 

    Worst Poirot and Poirot/Hastings novel: The Big Four

    Best Miss Marple novel: A Murder is announced
    Worst Miss Marple novel: At Bertram's Hotel

    Best Tommy and Tuppence novel: N or M
    Worst: Postern of Fate

    Best novel involving Mrs Oliver: Cards on the Table
    Worst: Elephants can remember

    Best novel involving Race: Death on the Nile
    Worst: Sparkling Cyanide

    Best novel involving Battle: Towards Zero
    Worst: The Secret of Chimneys


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