![]() ![]() ![]() She produced only one thriller – Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (1934) – and instead focused on sending Poirot around the world, via trains, boats and planes, and having him confront fiendishly clever murder plots everywhere he went. The 30’s have also been called the “Golden Age” of Christie’s puzzle-making. Parker Pyne, and craft a dozen stories featuring that interesting fellow. True, most of the latter had first appeared in magazines during the 20’s, but Christie still managed to create a wholly new detective, Mr. The 1930’s was Christie’s most prolific period, comprising nineteen novels – including the first two under the name Mary Westmacott – and five collections of stories. ![]() an event far more intriguing to me than those missing eleven days in 1926! It’s true that The Murder at the Vicarage had received mixed reviews, and it’s possible that Christie simply knew where her bread was buttered – the butter being shaped like a big moustache – and so she gave the public what it wanted. Then the elderly sleuth disappeared for a decade. The following year, this story would be the final one in a published collection of the tales of the Tuesday Night Club called The Thirteen Problems. and exactly one short story about Miss Marple, “Death by Drowning,” which appeared in the November 1931 issue of Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine. Between 19, Agatha Christie wrote fifteen novels and four novellas featuring Hercule Poirot. ![]()
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