Today, along with four other fabulous bloggers, we are launching a summer-long Agatha Christie Read-Along - Spend the Summer with Agatha Christie - Cool Down with AC! You can join one, two, three, four or all five for a truly mysterious summer with the Queen of Mystery!
Why all this focus on Agatha Christie now? As of the beginning of this year, HarperCollins is proud to be Agatha Christie’s global publisher and we are reissuing all of her books in the US in beautiful new trade paperback editions. These wonderful authentic editions are exactly as Christie wrote them using the original UK texts. Now fans can read all of the Christie mysteries including the Hercule Poirot Mysteries, the Miss Marple Mysteries, and the Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries (coming Winter 2012). And you won't want to miss a single one of Christie’s stand-alone novels and short stories.
So who are my cohorts in crime in this Summer of Agatha Christie? None other than Julie from Booking Mama, who will explore the world of Hercule Poirot, Melissa from The Sunday Book Review who will delve into the mysteries of Miss Marple, Jen from Devourer of Books who will focus on Christie's standalone novels and Nicole from Linus's Blanket who will focus on the four new Masterpiece Mystery films that will air on PBS this June and July. I will focus here on her acclaimed short stories.
Here's the schedule for the summer - sign up at the Mr. Linky below and take part on the weeks you can! Each blogger will be offering giveaways for the books they're discussing and there will be grand prizes for read-along participants of Agatha Christie totes, books, DVDs and more!
Short Story!
June 6th: "The Tuesday Night Club" here on Book Club Girl
Marple!
June 13th-June19th: 4:50 From Paddington: A Miss Marple Mystery on The Sunday Book Review
Poirot!
June 20th-June 26th: Three Act Tragedy: A Hercule Poirot Mystery on Booking Mama
Movie!
June 20th-June 26th: Three Act Tragedy airs on PBS June 19th on Linus's Blanket
Standalone!
June 27th: Endless Night on Devourer of Books
Movie!
June 27th-July 3rd: The Clocks airs on PBS June 26th on Linus’s Blanket
Short Story!
July 5th: "Three Blind Mice" on Book Club Girl
Movie!
July 4th-July 10th: Hallowe'en Party airs on PBS July 3rd on Linus's Blanket
Marple!
July 11th-July 17th: Miss Marple on The Sunday Book Review
Movie!
July 11th-July 17th: The Pale Horse airs on PBS July 10th on Linus's Blanket
Poirot!
July 18th-July 24th: Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery on Booking Mama
Standalone!
July 25th: And Then There Were None on Devourer of Books
Short Story!
August 1st: "Witness for the Prosecution" on Book Club Girl
Marple!
August 8th-August 14th: Miss Marple on The Sunday Book Review
Poirot!
August 15th-August 21st: The A.B.C. Murders: A Hercule Poirot Mystery on Booking Mama
Standalone!
August 22nd: Ordeal by Innocence on Devourer of Books
Wrap Up!
August 29th-September 4th: Book Club Girl on Air Show to be announced!
To join the overall read-along on all 5 of our blogs sign up at the Mr. Linky here:
For more details on each of the individual readalongs, visit the co-host blogs below. I'll post the sign up for the Short Story portion on Book Club Girl on Wednesday, June 1st!
Booking Mama - Hercule Poirot Mysteries
Devourer of Books -Standalone Mysteries
Linus's Blanket - Masterpiece Mystery Movies on PBS
The Sunday Book Review - Miss Marple Mysteries
So excited. Agatha & I go way back to when my grandmother gave me some copies of her 1st AC books when I was a kid. I started reading them order of publishing date last year & got to the 10th book. I believe 163 in total if you count US & UK versions.
Posted by: Trace | May 31, 2011 at 08:41 AM
Very excited!!
Posted by: Darsa | May 31, 2011 at 08:43 AM
This is such a great idea. I have never read AC. I will try one or two read alongs. This is great to go along with Masterpiece Theatre too. Thank you for hosting.
Posted by: Susan | May 31, 2011 at 10:13 AM
What fun, I can't wait. This is going to be a good summer.
Posted by: Martha@Hey, I want to read that | May 31, 2011 at 10:51 AM
One thing I realized you have to have a twitter account. Do you have to use Twitter or can I leave my comments on the host blog? I don't use it.
Posted by: Susan | May 31, 2011 at 11:19 AM
I can't wait! I've always liked Agatha Christie and this gives me a chance to read some that I've never read!
Posted by: Laura Welser | May 31, 2011 at 11:45 AM
I can't wait. I watched the PBS movie Murder on the Orient Express and picked up the book to go along. I am stoked!
Posted by: Ariel | May 31, 2011 at 06:03 PM
Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand.
Posted by: Cheap Jordans | May 31, 2011 at 09:01 PM
Oh I am so IN for the short stories. I'm posting Short Story Mondays starting next week and this fits in perfectly! I stopped at the library and have all the stories I need already. I'm psyched.
Posted by: SuziQoregon | May 31, 2011 at 11:56 PM
Fabulous!
Posted by: Nandurisin | June 01, 2011 at 10:42 AM
Although promising original UK text, I'll wager that we won't see Ten Little Niggers, set on Nigger Island!
Posted by: Nigel Rowe | June 01, 2011 at 01:12 PM
This sounds like fun.
Posted by: Karen J Massey | June 01, 2011 at 03:17 PM
This sounds like it's going to be a fun-filled summer Please count me in!
Posted by: TheBookGirl | June 01, 2011 at 05:13 PM
This sounds awesome! I love Agatha Christie and look forward to participating!
Posted by: Lauren | June 01, 2011 at 08:21 PM
this is going to be good. Dame Agatha is my favorite of all times.
Posted by: Kimberlycombs | June 01, 2011 at 10:18 PM
This does sound like fun. I've already ordered the first book from B & N.
Posted by: Marianne Gilliam | June 03, 2011 at 12:35 PM
Never heard of Mr. Linky before but I signed up and hopefully it worked! Going to the library now to find some of the books to read!
Posted by: Karen | June 03, 2011 at 01:36 PM
I am excited to do this, but I couldn't sign up for Mr. Linky because I don't have a blog address. Hmmmm
Posted by: Michelle S. | June 03, 2011 at 05:09 PM
re Michelle S. use the facebook address just copy & paste from your home page
Posted by: Wendy | June 03, 2011 at 05:22 PM
I'm very excited to do this, however I don't have a URL? Anything I could do about that?
Posted by: Sue Deyo | June 03, 2011 at 05:58 PM