Agatha is NOT a Fan of Hipsters: Third Girl | 1966

Image from here "It's the way girls like living now. Better than P.G.s or a hostel. The main girl takes a furnished flat, and then shares out the rent. Second girl is usually a friend. Then they find a third girl by advertising, if they don't know one." - Third Girl, p. 16 The Sum of It:  Elderly Poirot is relaxing at home of an evening when his butler, George, comes in to let him know that there's a young lady at the door who thinks...

Miss Marple Hits the Beach: A Caribbean Mystery | 1964

Image from here "Do you think a murderer ought to be a happy man?" Miss Marple coughed. "Well, they usually have been, in my experience."  "I don't suppose your experience has gone very far," said Mr. Rafiel.  In this assumption, as Miss Marple could have told him, he was wrong. But she forbore to contest his statement. Gentlemen, she knew, did not like to be put right in their facts."  - A Caribbean Mystery, p. 113 The...

Beginnings & Ends: Poirot's Early Cases, Miss Marple's Final Cases, & Problem at Pollensa Bay | 1974, 1979, & 1991

(image from here) (image from here) (image from here) "Remember it, and if you think at any time that I am growing conceited - it is not likely, but it might arise." I concealed a smile. "Eh bien, my friend, you shall say to me, 'Chocolate box.' Is it agreed?" "It's a bargain!" -Poirot & Hastings, "The Chocolate Box," Poirot's Early Cases, p. 139 The Sum of It: We are getting deep into the land of We Have Read All These Short...

Memory Lane: Elephants Can Remember | 1972

(image from here) "So I thought that what we've really got to do is to get at the people who are like elephants. Because elephants, so they say, don't forget." -Mrs. Ariadne Oliver, Elephants Can Remember, p. 31 The Sum of It: Elephants Can Remember reunites two of our favorite sleuth besties: Poirot and Mrs. Ariadne Oliver. Mrs. Oliver is paying her famous author dues and attending a literary luncheon with the masses. She has some initial...

Star Struck: The Mirror Crack'd | 1962

(image from here) "I don't think," he said gently, "that anything that you or I could say about murders is likely unduly to excite or shock Miss Marple. I can assure you, my dear Miss Knight, that Miss Marple can contemplate murder and sudden death and indeed crime of all kinds with the utmost equanimity." - The Mirror Crack'd, p. 203 The Sum of It: Times, they are a'changin' (ain't that the truth, AGH) in St. Mary Mead, and Miss Marple is...