Poirot investigates
Agatha Christie: Poirot’s Early Cases Agatha Christie: Murder in the Mews Agatha Christie: The Harlequin Tea Set Agatha Christie: The Labours of Hercules Agatha Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was published in 1920 and soon brought fame to the author and also to her fictional detective, Poirot. Hercule Poirot investigates in a total of 33 novels and 7 short story collections. Since The Mysterious Affair at Styles, there have been many movie, theater, cartoon and graphic novel adaptations. There was even a video game made about the Belgian detective, and his most famous movie actor is David Suchet. Adaptation of the stories is still happening in the form of movies and series. Thanks to Sophie Hannah, we can see the world’s most famous detective investigating again in book pages. Poirot is usually associated with the novels Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, but…
Scarlet saves the Universe (again)
James Davis: Scarlet Saves the Multiverse (HarperCollins Publishers 2026) Scarlet, although she has already saved the world once, still can’t agree with her brother on who should eat from the bowl they inherited from their grandmother… Moreover, as the Defenders of the Universe, they receive two very important distress signals and they don’t even know yet about a much bigger problem. This is a problem that could throw the entire Multiverse off balance. This story is also very cute and funny, with jokes that both adults and children can laugh at. What I liked the most was that in addition to interesting science fiction elements, serious topics were also included, such as anxiety, but we can also learn why it is not worth worrying. The wonderful illustrations were made by Dotty Sutton. And I suspect that Scarlet will soon be needed again to save the world… James Davis currently lives…