9 reason why I love… Agatha Christie

1. Because I now have an action plan for when I am a little old lady – I will solve crime and knit.
2. Poirot has made me more tolerent of men with moustaches.
3. Because her books encouraged me to read as whilst growing up.
4. Whilst the class system may be a bit sucky if you’re not on the right end of it, there is something very reassuring about it in a world of fiction.
5. There’s an endless supply of books and marvelous adaptions on TV and Radio (although strangely no really good films – except maybe Death on the Nile with Peter Ustinov and Mia Farrow).
6. Joan Hickson, a marvellous actress, would never have found such a perfect role to play in her later years without such an excellent character as Miss Marple being in place.
7. The other brilliant authors she has inspied and whose murders I love to read about.
8. Because everything’s always resolved at the end. I can flip my pillow over to the cool side, lay my book down and sleep knowing everything’s right with the world.
9. And finally – the sense of style that is conjoured up in my mind when I read the books or hear the dramatizations on the radio is so kitch and lovely…

So, here are 9 beautiful, slightly Agatha Chrstie inspired things I have found out there in style land…

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