Having deviated again from the reading plan prescribed by the Official Agatha Christie website, I cracked open The Thirteen Problems this week. I loved it so much that I deviated slightly from my own list and read the first six stories before The Mystery of the Blue Train.
It is obvious from reading these first Miss Marple stories that Agatha Christie must have enjoyed writing them. They are full of colour and energy, unlike The Big Four where she can barely manages to conceal her weariness of Hercule Poirot. I'm interested to see if Christie's desire for a paycheque is as apparent in The Mystery of the Blue Train.
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