RANDOM JOTTINGS


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Category: Hercule Poirot

  • I have just realised the days are moving quickly and I will soon be in 2021 before I talk about my reading this year. So here goes with the second lot. The Crown in Crisis; the Countdown to the Abdication by Alexander Larman.   This is one of the best, if not the best, of all…

  • When I was eleven years old I was stuck indoors with a case of German measles. I did not feel ill but I was in quarantine and bored witless. My sister, a trainee librarian, was tasked with finding me something to read and she came home one lunch time with a pile of books one…

  • I have got off to a flying start with my Agatha Christie re-read and the danger is that I will blitz the lot so I am trying, not totally successfully, to limit them. This week I have read three but first up is Murder on the Orient Express. Mention this and most people I know…