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Publisher:
Harper Collins Crime |
Release
Date: December 2003 |
ISBN:
0002326434 |
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Format
Reviewed: Hardback |
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Genre:
Classic Crime |
Reviewed:
2004 |
Reviewer:
Rachel A Hyde |
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While
the Light Lasts
The Agatha Christie
collection
By Agatha Christie
Modern
crime fiction has changed so much in the past few years that it
become easy to be cynical about Agatha Christie’s cozy style,
comparing it to some more bloody and pacey tale. But actually reading
one of her novels, or a set of short stories like this one, it is
easy to see why she became known as “The Queen of Crime,”
no mean feat at a time known today as the classic era of crime fiction.
The tales in this collection
are some of her early work and range from two typically good-humored
Poirot stories to some darker tales of love and death, featuring
triangles of lovers in particular, as well as murder, the supernatural
and an ever-present sense of doom. There is a sweet love story and
an extraordinary mystery story written for a treasure hunt on the
Isle of Man as part of a scheme to boost tourism. It is true that
some elements of all her fiction has dated, but this is inevitable
and does not tend to detract from the timeless appeal of a well-plotted
tale.
Reviews of other titles by
this author
The
Affair of the Pink Pearl &
Finessing the King [audio]
Philomel
Cottage and other Stories [audio]
Black
Coffee (w/Charles Osborne)
Hercule
Poirot and the Greenshore Folly
Murder
on the Orient Express 1 (Murder in the Calais Coach)
Murder
on the Orient Express 2 (Movie Tie-In) [book]
Murder on the Orient Express 3 (Movie Tie-In) [audio]
And
Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians)
While
the Light Lasts
After
the Funeral
The
Monogram Murders (w/Sophie Hannah)
Agatha
Christie; An Autobiography
Agatha
Christie: Murder in the Making
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