I could call it a bit up and down, but that's hardly the whole truth. Well, let's take a closer look at Christie's first decade. Highest rating: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 93 And from the 1960s on, she rarely got more than 60. What's perhaps most noticeable is that during the middle of Christie's career, she had very few dips below 50. Now, when I see this graph, my first thought is that the overall trend is exactly what I expected, but I also think that I might have been a bit kinder to the late career works than to some of the early ones. While I was doing my ratings, I never looked back on previous novels to see what I'd given them. We'll take a closer, more detailed look further on, so this graph is just to get a quick overview over how my ratings look. I'd like to start with a quick look at the ranking of all the novels. This post focused on the ratings I gave to the novels, and what they This overview will be different (because there's no point inĬompeting with the internet's resident Christieologist), and I'll keep (The link above will take you to the first post in the series.) Is excellent, and you should all take a look at it, if you haven'tĪlready. On Agatha Christie's production during different decades. Over on Ah Sweet Mystery, Brad's been doing a series of posts If they were, there would have been too many novels with a ranking above 90. While there were definitely some disappointments, I've generally looked forward to reading each novel.Ĭhristie's level of mystery writing is generally very high, and now when I'm going to take a look at the rankings I've given to the novels, I want to emphasize that these novels are ranked against each other, not against any other mystery writing. It took me around 10 months to read 66 novels, produced over a little more than 55 years.

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