Books books books! - Top 5?

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Devin asked:

> Does anyone have a favorite Christie novel?  

Oooooooh, Christie!  

<sits up and takes notice>

> Mine is Thirteen at Dinner (also called Lord Edgeware Dies), but 
> And Then There Were None and Roger Ackroyd are also up there.  

Oooh, yes.  _And Then There Were None_ and _The Murder of Roger 
Ackroyd_ would both *definitely* have to go on my top five list.  I'm 
also extremely fond of _Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the 
Nile,_ and _Evil Under the Sun._

Of the somewhat lesser knowns, my favorites are _Three Little Pigs_
(also known as _Murder In Retrospect_), _The Hollow,_ and _Towards 
Zero._

Oh.  But that makes eight, doesn't it?  

I'm also extremely fond of _Sleeping Murder,_ because although I now
consider it one of Christie's weaker efforts, it was the first one
that I ever read, and I was young enough at the time that it really
really *scared* me.

I'm not crazy about Tommy and Tuppence myself, but I found the 
oft-decried _Postern of Fate_ utterly fascinating when read as a 
novel about the onset of senile dementia.

Oh, dear.  You know, I *really* didn't mean for that to come out 
sounding nearly as cruel as I suspect that it must have.  But 
seriously, if you read Christie's autobiography, and then read 
_Postern of Fate,_ it does form a very interesting picture of an 
author struggling to describe what is happening to the state of her 
mind as she ages.


-- Elkins, who could babble happily about Christie all day long