The Mysterious Mr. Quin review

Agatha Christie meet G. K. Chesterton. Imagine a young Agatha Christie. She wants to write Crime Fiction. But, who should be her role model? On the one side, she can pattern her work after Arthur Conan Doyle. Hercule Poirot becomes the modern day Sherlock Holmes, using his little gray cells to solve puzzles. (Or as Christie would actually write, his little grey cells.) The clues are all handed to the reader along with an array of red herrings. The reader tries to be as clever as the … [Read more...] about Christie and Chesterton