Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie is my second favorite mystery author. Not, however, because of her more popular series of books about Miss Marple and Poirot, which are good, and I happen to prefer Miss Marple to Poirot, but the books which do not involve either detectives I like the best. Her Tommy and Tuppence short story mysteries were a pleasant surprise to me. Tommy and Tuppence are a married couple who run a detective agency in London, and sometimes Christie took on the writing style of other authors of her time when writing the Tommy and Tuppence mysteries. The best imitation for me was when Tommy was undercover as a priest and was portraying Father Brown, from Chesterton's books. As I have said before, The Secret of Chimney's and it's sequel, The Seven Dials Mystery are my favorites, and they do not involve neither of her popular Detectives. So there it is, my choice for second, which is subject to change at my whim.