Bathtubbooks.com » Hercule Poirot http://www.bathtubbooks.com Books I read in the tub Fri, 06 May 2011 12:19:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Agatha Christie – The Big Four http://www.bathtubbooks.com/agatha-christie-the-big-four http://www.bathtubbooks.com/agatha-christie-the-big-four#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:26:29 +0000 admin http://www.bathtubbooks.com/agatha-christie-the-big-four
I love Agatha Christie novels. I´ve read ´em all, several times and in fact, I love her so much that when I grow up, I want to be Miss Marple. She is my favorite heroine. Sharp as a needle, righteous, and she´s always knitting something soft and woolly. More than simply being about cleverly solving murders, Miss Marple is part of a small community, and always visiting distant cousins and writing to her family.

Unfortunately, there is a limited number (only 12!) of Miss Marples. So I turn to Poirot sometimes. I quite like him and his little grey cells, but I prefer him when he deals with small matters. A missing cook, an odd game of bridge, a girl found dead in her room.

I never did like the “big” novels on international crime and rereading The Big 4 strengthened me in my thoughts. A visitor comes to Poirot´s flat. He dies on the spot, but mumbles something about the big four. This is a top secret organisation, consisting of four very evil people who stop at nothing to get to their Goal. Though we´ll never find out what exactly they are planning to do and why all this killing, maiming and kidnapping is really necessary.

It seems Poirot and Hastings are constantly being kidnapped and nearly blown up. All this over excitement – Miss Marple never gets kidnapped!- makes it a very uneven and un-Christie like book. Can´t wait to get back to a “normal” Miss Marple, like A murder is announced or Sleeping Murder!

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