29 January 2024
As it does for many, my obsession with Agatha Christie started young. I was ten or so when I picked up my first Christie, fresh off a self-prescribed course of Greek mythology. Had someone asked me then to explain why reading a murder mystery from the heart of the twentieth century felt like a natural transition from the world of gods and monsters, I'd have been at a loss. Now, I can recognize that Christie has the rare ability to write "large," making use of stock characters who interact in grownup ways amid life-or-death stakes-and rarer still, to do so by way of accessible prose. I can't be sure, but I think it's this "adult fairytale"-like quality that first drew me to Christie's work.
