Agatha Christie’s Taste in Crime Fiction

She is beloved worldwide for her crime writing. But what did she like to read?

Resources and articles mentioned in this episode:

— Jamie Bernthal on Arthur Conan Doyle

— Moira Redmond on Elizabeth Daly

— Martin Edwards on My Brother's Killer

— Gray Robert Brown on Muriel Spark

Books mentioned in this episode:

— Agatha Christie An Autobiography by Agatha Christie

— The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

— The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

— The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

— The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie

— Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers

— Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers

— The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers

— Mr Fortune, Please by H.C. Bailey

— Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

— Unexpected Night by Elizabeth Daly

— The Missing Moneylender by W. Stanley Sykes

— The Clocks by Elizabeth Daly

— The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux

— My Brother's Killer by D.M. Devine

— The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carré

— The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie

— Endless Night by Agatha Christie

— Stamboul Train by Graham Greene

— The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

— The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark

— A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie

— The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie

— The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen

— Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen

— The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen

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