14/02/2007

Now I am a big Agatha Chrisie fan - I have different favourites according to my mood as I do reread them!! Death on the Nile I think is one - I had to buy another copy of it to read while I was cruising down the Nile in 4 star luxury when I was backpacking 12 years ago. ( Got it very cheap - no tourists about that year - it was a 'terrorist year') The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is another that is excellent - Dumb Witness - & the Middle Eastern Ones - Murder in Mesopotamia ( which is reputedly about a real person she couldn't stand) .....* It being the Nile cruise - actually the book probably cost more than the cruise! (not quite).

On the other hand The Clocks is not one of her best, and the worst by far is Destination Unknown – aptly named, it appears to go nowhere - it is most peculiar - seems to finish in the middle. Don't read it!Think I'm going to try Peter Robinson.