u/PurpleLeopard99 — reddlx

Why is Agatha Christie so famous now when some of her contemporaries were so much better?

This is a controversial point of view but I have always wondered this. I don't mind Agatha Christie's books (and a few are quite good) but there were so many others of her generation who wrote much better stuff.

I'm thinking of Anthony Berkeley, Josephine Tey, Dorothy Sayers, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh and even Patricia Wentworth (some of her books are better than others but Miss Silver is far superior to Miss Marple).

They are all well known by anyone who reads classic crime fiction but much less well known among the masses who have heard about Agatha Christie and regard her as a Queen of Crime

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u/PurpleLeopard99 — 6 days ago

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Mispronouncing of words by narrators

Does anyone get bothered by narrators who keep mispronouncing words? It drives me nuts if they do it too often. Narrators are normally professional voice artists and they should know how to pronounce the sorts of words found in novels eg dovecote or Michaelmas

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u/PurpleLeopard99 — 8 days ago

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