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Sept 25: The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928) by Agatha Christie
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Lunchtime Listen September/October 2024
Well I have to say this was really fun lunchtime listen, brilliantly read as ever by the great Captain Hastings (Hugh Fraser).
I realise that my previous “read” resulted in a very short and sweet review considering I gave it 5 stars. So why change a thing ha ha.
Seriously it is a really well crafted story that drags you along quite happily. The absence of a Poirot or Marple is not a problem as Superintendent Battle and to an extent Anthony Cade fill their sho ...more
Well I have to say this was really fun lunchtime listen, brilliantly read as ever by the great Captain Hastings (Hugh Fraser).
I realise that my previous “read” resulted in a very short and sweet review considering I gave it 5 stars. So why change a thing ha ha.
Seriously it is a really well crafted story that drags you along quite happily. The absence of a Poirot or Marple is not a problem as Superintendent Battle and to an extent Anthony Cade fill their sho ...more
I enjoyed this early Agatha Christie (1925) introducing Scotland Yards Battle. The story is very tongue in cheek and funny. Anthony Cade is an adventurer who is currently a tour guide in Zimbabwe or Rhodesia back then. A friend asks him to deliver a politically sensitive Herzoslovakian manuscript of memoirs and a bundle of blackmailing letters to England.
We then follow his adventures with getting is share of the 1000 pounds for delivering the manuscript the publishers in London and returning th ...more
We then follow his adventures with getting is share of the 1000 pounds for delivering the manuscript the publishers in London and returning th ...more
This Christie was just okay for me. At times it seemed a little too cute to have been written by Christie and felt more like a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, whom she admired. (For all that, I much preferred Hallowe'en Party, a book she actually dedicates to Wodehouse.) Perhaps my opinion of it was too strongly influenced by the political intrigue, which I'm desperately trying to escape these days, so it's a matter of personal taste. There seemed to be a lot of disparate elements to juggle, including
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A story of political and international intrigue. Thoroughly entertaining partly because of cliches and the wit of the characters. Lord Caterham had some excellent one-liners. Occasionally found it difficult to follow as there were so many characters, some of who helpfully switched names and/or impersonated one another. Great view into aristocratic life and scandal in Christie's era.
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A good book but kind of slow.
I believe that other Agatha’s books are much better
I believe that other Agatha’s books are much better
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