It's 1st April, and I'm quite happy because my tax course will take a three-week holiday (yay), meaning that I'll have a bit more time for blogging (not mentioning my February and March reviews, which was long overdue!) This month we will be reading from
The Thirteen Problems and
The Listerdale Mystery collections. You can find the complete reading list
here, and
please submit link to your reviews of this month's stories on the comment section of this post. Happy reading!
THE IDOL HOUSE OF ASTARTE
The Tuesday Night Club discuss a fancy dress party where a man was stabbed. But no one was close enough to have murdered him. The Club discuss the details of the case but it seems only Miss Marple knows the truth of the matter.
Published in 1928 in the Royal Magazine in the UK and Detective Story Magazine in the US. In the US the story had the title
The Solving Six and the Evil Hour. It was included in the collection
The Thirteen Problems in 1932.
THE PHILOMEL COTTAGE
When a distant relative dies, leaving Alix King a large inheritance, she marries in a whirlwind romance. But what does she really know about her new husband?
Published in the collection The Listerdale Mystery in the UK in 1934 and in The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories in 1948, it is one of the most successful short stories Agatha Christie wrote, examining the fear of the unknown when it manifests in a home.
Super! I am so glad you'll have more time to catch up on reading and writing reviews! This is such a great reading challenge and I'm really looking forward to the April selections.
ReplyDeleteHi Fanda, sorry to leave a comment on your AC post, but it looks like you are not reading Zola this April?
ReplyDeleteThat's absolutely fine, but just wanted to check.
I'm reading Pot Luck during April - my 11th Zola - I'm past the halfway mark finally :-)
Here is my review of Philomel Cottage: https://literaturefrenzy.blogspot.com/2025/04/philomel-cottage-by-agatha-christie.html
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