I tip my hat to you, Ms Christie.

My first experience with a Christie novel was ... less than pleasant. It was a summer school assignment. Read "A Mysterious Affair at Styles" and create a book report on it. I distinctly remember reaching out to the teacher to confirm if the book report had to be positive. She said, "Be honest and just write about your experience with the book" and boy was I honest about how much I despised it.

My early teen self was quite critical of her work and her flimsy approach to "murder mystery". I am not sure why but I had a much greater expectation and demand from the book. I recall while researching supplementary material for the report that Styles was her first book, written as a challenge with her sister who thought she can't write a murder mystery. Ms Christie claimed to have won the challenge but I'd have contested that victory. Since that experience, I stayed off the famous murder mysteries of Agatha Christie and the eccentric adventures of Hercule Poirot.

Until last year, when I thoroughly enjoyed the audiobook of The ABC Murders. I thought it was the dramatic radio show enactment that made is enjoyable. In the spirit of a new year, I wanted to give Agatha Christie and her work a fresh start. When I picked up "And Then There Were None", mostly because it was heavily discounted at a local bookstore, I was not expecting to enjoy it this much. I read the book in three sitting on a weekday after work. And supplemented that with the BBC mini-series. Both were such fantastically executed. I understand why this was voted as the favourite Agatha Christie Murder Mystery. And you bet I am going to read the other two on that list.

Murder of Roger Ackroyd, here I come!