It's #AgathaChristie biography weekend! Janet Morgan (a must read for Christie fans) I've read 3 times in paperback, but I'm gladly replacing it with this 1st edition (Collins '84). The Mystery of Agatha Christie by Gwen Robyns is new to me. We'll see what it adds to the picture!

Saw lots #AgathaChristie 60s rankings. My looking-forward-to-reread-list: 1 Pale Horse 2 Endless Night 3 Clocks 4 Bertram´s Hotel 5 Cat Among the Pigeons 6 Caribbean Mystery 7 Pricking of my Thumbs 8 Halloween Party 9 Third Girl 10 The Mirror Crack´d 11 Frankfurt @Christie_Time

Although not a reader or collector of omnibuses, these certainly have their appeal. Four #AgathaChristie Companions (1st edition BCA) and Masterpieces of Murder from the USA. Found them with some #Fontana film/tv tie-ins. Together a nice addition to any Christie collection!

Nice to have a hardcover copy of #AgathaChristie's #OrientExpress. On the cover we see (somewhat vaguely) Albert Finney as #Poirot (so the jacket says). And partly Anthony Perkins as Hector MacQueen. Released in 1974, just before the famous film came out and for me a rare find!

Did some research on my recent find (1st Dutch edition Partners in Crime; published by Allert de Lange - 1930). Book had a DJ. In a booklet about the history of the publisher I found a photo. Same DJ as the beautiful US 1st ed! How cool would it be to find this book+DJ someday...

This is the 1st Dutch edition (1930) of Partners in Crime. The 5th #AgathaChristie published in the Netherlands. Very rare, never seen a copy of it before and I don't know if it came with a DJ. Tommy & Tuppence are called the 'The Avengers' here (for that's the Dutch title)!

Found some nice vintage paperbacks in The Hague yesterday at the weekly book market at #LangeVoorhout and @ColetteBoeken (visit this book shop when you're in The Hague!!!). #Penguin #Pelican #Albatross #AgathaChristie and more 😀

#Marple - Expert on Wickedness - has arrived in the Netherlands! A perfect book to read during my last holiday weekend. It will soon be on the shelf next to Poirot! Nice to see a picture in it of this early Dutch edition of the Body in the Library @DrMarkAldridge @Christie_Time

Back from a short stay in London and as usual it was great. Found some nice souvenirs again. And especially at #HurlinghamBooks in Fulham I was very friendly received. Recommended: lots of stock (#CollinsCrimeClub) and very friendly people!

On my way for a short stay in England I had some time in Brussels and I spent it well 😀. Two books found: #AgathaChristie & All That Mousetrap ('not a hagiography', indeed) and a 1st of Curtain. Next two days looking for more of that in London...

Picked up 2 boxes of paperbacks today; ao #AgathaChristie and #NgaioMarsh. Got @julesburt vibes now: unboxing, cleaning & looking at doubles, upgrades, resales. Recent articles by @collectchristie on the #Fontana books and Tom Adams' covers are an invalueable resource now 😀

It's been a while since I found a nice stack of vintage #AgathaChristie books, but today at the market ´Books around the Palace´ in Tilburg I was lucky enough to find a few. Especially happy with the 1st ed. Fontana of Evil Under the Sun. Early Fontana's are getting hard to find!

Had a great day at the annual Deventer Book Fair, the biggest in Europe! #DeventerBoekenmarkt. Nice vintage paperbacks: #AgathaChristie #Penguin #Pelican #Digit and more!

This is a Dutch ed. of Appointment with Death (UK 1938). Previously published in magazine format, this is the 1st Dutch hardcover edition (1946). Never seen it with the great cover before! Title is literally translated, later a different title was used: Death of a House Tyrant.

This week I spent a few days in #Norwich / Norfolk. With windmills and flat lands it felt like home! Brought back this souvenir from the Dormouse Bookshop in Norwich (not online, great shop, visit it!): an underrated Poirot straight from the 60s! @Christie_Time (book club ed)

Happy with this find: #AgathaChristie - The Grand Tour. Bonus: it's signed by Mathew Prichard! (editor and Christie's grandson). Book was sold at Greenway in 2014. Perhaps the previous owner had it signed at the #AgathaChristieFestival that year? Who knows...

A nice rarity for the Dutch #AgathaChristie collector. A regular paperback from the 1970s of Murder On the #OrientExpress with a dust jacket based on the 1974 film. It brightens up the somewhat boring paperbacks from that time!

As a historian I sure have something for #MurderEveryMonday. These crime novels by American writer Steven Saylor are set in Ancient Rome. Murder, Caesar & Cicero, what more do you want? Gordianus the Finder is our detective in this Roma sub Rosa series.

After reading #DorothySayers' Bellona Club and Whose Body? earlier this year, I found it's best to read them in order. With this lot of beautiful #PrismaDetectives from the 60s I can continue the read. Finished Clouds of Witness (Hoofd in de Strop) and Unnatural Causes is next!

Why did I wait 40+ years before reading #JohnSteinbeck? Enjoyed this 4 books (60s Dutch Salamander Pockets; The Pearl, Burning Bright, Pastures of Heaven) The Winter of our Discontent is superb; a story about a man in a small town in the 60s and at the time universal and timeless