In 1951, the story appeared as part of the anthology The Underdog and Other Stories published in the U.S. The list of titles below has been quickly compiled for the sake of creating the index – some of Christie’s short story collections in particular may be missing or misfiled. The Market Basing Mystery is a short story by Agatha Christie which was first published in The Sketch in October 1923 in the U.K. Below are links to all of my reviews to date. While I have only blogged about a small fraction of Christie’s work I have read the vast majority of it – I believe all of the official Poirot novels (except Black Coffee, the play which was adapted into a novel some years after Christie’s death), all of the Marples and at this point a healthy number of original works. There are also titles that are beloved by fans of the genre for their originality such as The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
AGATHA CHRISTIE MYSTERIES CRACKED
To give a couple of examples, Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None both are widely known, even to those who have never cracked the spine on a Christie novel. In addition to creating several great detectives, Christie also penned several of the most iconic mystery stories including a few that have a reach far beyond fans of the genre. Poirot Investigates & The Body in the Library: Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Novels in One. Poirot may be a frustrating little man but his philosophy and his dedication to discovering the truth make him a compelling detective. They endure because of the quality of Christie’s plotting, the inventiveness of the situations she creates and the personalities of these detective figures. These characters have endured and their stories continue to sell and be adapted into multiple media including films, television, video games and comic books. Even ignoring some of her lesser creations like Battle, Parker Pyne and Harley Quin, several of whom are perfectly competent sleuths, we are left with Tommy and Tuppence, Miss Jane Marple and perhaps the most enduring detective of the Golden Age – Hercule Poirot. It is difficult to create a truly enduring protagonist for a mystery story yet Agatha Christie created several.