Agatha Christie remains one of the most popular and best-selling mystery authors of all times. Almost all of her output is still in print, making her among the most accessible of the great mystery writers. It's easy to lose track of some of her characters and her plots and her books.
So if you really want to keep track of everything Agatha - if, for example, you are a blogger maintaining a blog about classic mysteries - it helps to have a cheat sheet. And there is no better volume for an Agatha Christie Cheat Sheet on the market than "Agatha Christie," by Mark Campbell, in the Pocket Essential Literature series. It contains lists of all the books and all the short stories and all the series detectives, plus very brief, non-spoiler descriptions of the books and admittedly quite subjective ratings for each one. You'll find invaluable background about Miss Marple - and some of the other inhabitants of her village. There's information about Hercule Poirot's background (not to mention his amazing ability to avoid aging with anything like reality-based development). Harley Quinn, the Beresfords, Mr. Parker Pyne, they're all here, along with relatively minor characters such as Mr. Satterthwaite, Hastings, and Ariadne Oliver.
It is an invaluable reference work, and avid Christie readers will find it a marvelous checklist of some of the best mystery stories ever written. I recommend it highly.
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