Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie

[james_davis_nicoll]

Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie

Comments

[nelc]

[****James, insert the LINK!*****

Indeed.

to readers of a certain age and background, the green-white-green cover is extremely evocative.

And the penguin. My mum's library was filled with these, and seeing the covers evokes a particularly bittersweet nostalgia in me.

[james_davis_nicoll]

The deal with the link is incredibly frustrating. Really highlights how bad my memory is.

[nelc]

I think it's more a matter of procedure; if you can keep it together enough to write a coherent review, your memory's fine. You just need to flip out of writing mode into publishing mode when you've finished writing.

[graydon]

Checklist. Follow the checklist every damn time.

If it's any comfort to James; big chunks of professional content management systems involve automated checks for missing links, nobody updated chapter 3, and so on.

[wild_irises]

I read Christie obsessively as a young adult, and I don't even remember this one.

[james_davis_nicoll]

It's one of a small handful of Christies never to have been adapted to radio, screen or stage.

[matgb]

I grew up in her village, I didn't know this existed until reading a bio of her very recently, even when writing stuff up for tourist info packs some of her work slipped by.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for making the footnotes hyperlinks! Is this the first one you've done that in, or did I miss it earlier?

[james_davis_nicoll]

First one where it worked.

[james_davis_nicoll]

For some reason it insists on a little i, rather than a number.

[iayork]

Classy.

[scott_sanford]

Also, on my browser the i is inserted into the text of the line above, but I eventually worked out that "cilues" was not a typo.

[ejmam]

Second the kudos for hyperlink footnotes!

[pameladean]

This is also the first Agatha Christie that I read, and I found almost all of the others disappointing in comparison to it.

P.

[(Anonymous)]

Also my first Christie. Is this a trend?

William Hyde

[sethsellis]

I love the old Penguin covers, and not just for their evocative memories. The more you learn about graphic design the better they look.

[(Anonymous)]

Just to go against the trend, this wasn't my first Christie. It was, however, my favorite. Young me was fascinated by myths and loved, loved, loved the setting.

Spiegel

[maruad]

This reminds me that a friend had offered a bag of Agatha Christie novels she had found at the town dump in Flin Flon (nicely wrapped in plastic and set on a curb away from the real trash) and I forgot to take them with me when I left.

I will have to check with her (or her husband to see if they are still available) but I suspect they have gone back to the family cottage near Flin Flon for the rest of the summer.