Tag: agatha christie
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All Aboard! The Girl on the Train and Crime Fiction on the Coach
No crimes take place aboard a train in Paula Hawkins’ smash bestsellerĀ The Girl on the Train, unless you consider excessive drinking a crime (oddly enough, in many states in America, it would be, but I’ve got no clue about England, where the novel takes place). Even so, the locomotive plays a central role in the […]
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Murder by the Book: The Many Covers of Agatha Christie
I’ve been an Agatha Christie fan since I was a young boy. One of the primary reasons I was drawn to Christie’s novels was for the fantastic cover art, which easily snagsĀ the eye and fires up the imagination. In recent years, as part of our Book Club of Two, my mom and I have been […]