Genre Murder Mystery Books

Another Agatha Christie novel – my daughter read this a few months and ruined it for me by telling me whodunnit, having assumed that I’d read it, but I never had. So, I wasn’t surprised by the ending but it was still interesting figuring out just how the murderer(s) managed it. I love an Agatha [...]

A classic Agatha Christie novel, and probably one of the older ones, from the feel of the writing. I always enjoy a Hercules Poirot novel. This one is from the ‘murder mystery in a genteel country home’ set. Our narrator is a friend of the family, who is staying for a few months (no, really!) [...]

A murder mystery set in a girls school – I didn’t even realise it was a Hercules Poirot story as he doesn’t appear until the very end of the book, and it wasn’t on the cover! This is a good work, although a little dated.

Miss Marple is minding her own business – and feeling her age – when a letter appears asking her to attend a London solicitor. She realises that an acquaintance from a few years ago has passed on and has left a strange bequest. He needs justice to be done – and it is Miss Marple [...]