books: agatha-christie/the-thirteen-problems
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| agatha-christie/the-thirteen-problems | reviews | This collection of short Miss Marple stories was enjoyable. While Agatha Christie mostly follows her pattern of "the most vulnerable-looking person is most suspicious", I don't read mysteries for the plot, so I didn't care all that much. But the characterisation of poor old Miss Marple was very entertaining to read! I remember how this narration device got boring and even annoying when I read most of the Miss Marple books in one go, but over longer intervals, it works very well. After reading this book [and a Poirot one](https://books.rixx.de/reviews/2020/the-mysterious-affair-at-styles) back to back, my current preference of the [Detection Club](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detection_Club) era that I've read is: Dorothy Sayers, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Chesterton. And I think it's no accident that female writers are leading my list: First off, to be recognised as a good writer as a woman you had to perform to higher standards than men, of course. But also, I think you write better characters if you're more observant, and marginalisation strengthens observation skills. | 2020-06-15 | The Thirteen Problems | #aa9081 | 0007120869 | 9780007120864 | Miss Marple | 2 | 1932 | http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/isbn/9780007120864-L.jpg | 315 | 3 |
