Via this highly economical method she was able to access prodigious quantities of paperbacks over many years, often returning them for a few pennies that could be put towards the next stack of titles. The bookshop had a helpful “buy back” policy, which made the bargains even cheaper. Apart from the public library (and later the Lewisham Library ‘home delivery service’), the books were often acquired from Kirkdale bookshop in Sydenham via the bargain tables outside. Sadly my mum passed away in the summer and I was helping to clear out books from the house. I found a battered copy of M urder on the Orient Express on my mother’s book shelves and it reminded me of a family holiday that we had in Istanbul. So I chose Christie’s fictional murder in the Yugoslavian snow as a relief from all too real murder in the Stalinist snow. I needed a light break from my main read The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Indeed, the fact that I’m writing about this book at all is a diversion. Like a train this review may be inclined to twist and turn, be shunted into a siding or diverted to Crewe. This is a rambling review of the first and only Agatha Christie that I have read, Murder on the Orient Express (1934). Book review – Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
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