“The A. B. C. Murders” by Agatha Christie (1936)

“It was in June of 1935 that I came home from my ranch in South America for a stay of about six months.”

When explaining to my girlfriend about this book last week, she mocked me for claiming that every time I pick up an Agatha Christie, I say, “It’s one of Christie’s best”. I won’t be saying that come the ones from the seventies, but back in the thirties, she was at her peak. They’re all wonderful right about how. On with one of the best…

When Captain Hastings returns from Argentina to do busin...