Mystery Guild releases second Christie omnibus
As they did previously with the excellent MURDER AT THE MANOR collection, the Mystery Guild honors Agatha Christie – the world’s most popular mystery writer, even all these years after her death – with another three-in-one omnibus in their Lost Classics series. I hate the cover, but you know the insides are guaranteed to be good.
Set for release next month, DAME AGATHA ABROAD features three 1940s novels of foreign murders and archaeological expeditions, including the Hercule Poirot classic MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, MURDER IN MESOPOTAMIA (also with Poirot) and THEY CAME TO BAGHDAD.
This edition will not be sold in stores, so if you want to order, you can join the club here. FUN FACT: You could add a comma and a space to the title and have it read DAME AGATHA, A BROAD and it still wouldn’t be incorrect.
[...] FRIDAY: While my wife was off shopping starting at 4:45 a.m. – crazy woman that she is – my morning was all about kid wrangling. I was relieved of duty that afternoon. I tried to watch MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, having read the book last week, but found it too slow. So I read some more. That night, we caught WALK THE LINE, the Johnny Cash biopic/Oscar bait. Great performances and great music. Since Reese Witherspoon became a household name, my wife is always told she looks like Reese Witherspoon. And she does. It’s all the more eerie since Reese sports dark hair in the movie; there were moments when I could look at the screen and then turn to my right, and the resemblance was strictly uncanny. (For the record, I am much too handsome to be mistaken for Ryan Phillipe.) Wanted to watch WAR OF THE WORLDS when we got home, but it was too late. [...]