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Title: Christie leftovers
Review: Agatha Christie wrote some astonishing and superb mystery books -- this is not one of them.Here we have a compendium of "Christie Crumbs," short pieces which never blossomed into larger mystery stories. Herein, you'll find elements of and thoughts from Christie's larger works but none of them seem to manifest into anything significant. A number of the endings just sort of hang you out, reminiscent of some of the stories that you might encounter in "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine," only not so entertaining as those great little, well-edited tales.This book would be okay to take along for the morning bus ride or to the doctor's office. But unless you are a totally devoted Christie fan and must read everything that she wrote, I'd take a pass on this one and go with one of her more renowned works.
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