Just spotted that I can do polls on the blog! How exciting.
NB: Voting is now over. Click here for the final round.
So I thought I’d survey the globe to find the finest outing for everyone’s favourite Belgian. Basic rules – I’ve chopped the 33 novels into four groups by chronological order – you get to vote for your favourite of each group with two going through to the grand final! Each round will last for a week, so vote now! Vote! Don’t worry about me stealing your information, it’s completely anonymous. So I can’t even track down anyone who votes for The Big Four…
Oh, I’ve removed the ability to check the results so far – makes it more fun! If you want a reminder about some of these books (only three of them, actually) then do take a look at my Agatha Christie bibliography.
By the way, if you want to vote for other things, pop over to Cross-Examining Crime to vote on your favourite Merrivale novel…
UPDATE: Round Two, Round Three and Round Four are up now – and they’re even trickier to call than this one.
UPDATE: Well, it’s been a week now since I posted the poll and it still seems to be running. I’ll let it run a bit longer and then see what happens…
In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel 
Thanks for the mention. Your first round of Poirot voting is certainly a difficult one as it has two of my favourite Poirot novels in – The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and The Murder on the Orient Express. My brain literally went ‘arghhhhh’. But on reflection I decided to go with TMORA as the technical innovation in this novel is so sneaky and so good, it deserves to be put through to the next round.
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Just remembered to put an actual link to your post in. Whoops!
And Orient Express? Really? Must re-read that, but it’s in the “massively over-rated” category for me at the moment…
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Retrospectively I can see how the crime is not necessarily plausible but it was the early days of crime fiction reading and I just got into the setting and the characters.
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I was torn between Roger Ackroyd and Peril at End House, but went for Peril in the end. I think it’s one of the more under-rated of the books. Agree that Orient Express is over-rated – great premise, but the book gets very dull in the second half…
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Not that I’m going to say how I voted but I completely agree with you. Peril may be a bit obvious – see the review – but it’s one of the books that got me hooked on Dame Agatha in the first place.
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Orient Express was my second Christie and first Poirot, so it holds a special place in my heart – and yet I did not vote for it. Thank you for creating this poll, PD!
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You’re welcome, Brad. Curious what you did vote for – all I get to see are the overall results…
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[…] was going to do these weekly, but with Round One proving very popular, I thought I’d bring things forward. So here’s Round Two – […]
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[…] Round One and Round Two are still live, but I’ve removed the ability to peek at the results so far. I don’t want sympathy votes for neglected books… Round Four, the last nine books, will be up tomorrow. Or this evening, if I get bored. […]
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[…] let’s see – and I think the second place book is certainly less hard to call. Rounds One, Two and Three are still going for the next week or so, so don’t forget to vote on those if […]
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Hmmm… I was tempted – but only momentarily – by ‘Orient Express’. But the top choice resonated rather loudly and clearly for me. 🙂
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Is the poll already over? I can’t find it here… (Round two-four are still open for voting, but not this one.)
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Oh. Looks like WordPress has a looser definition of “1 week” than I thought. That’s disappointing… Oh well, to be honest, one vote’s not going to change the results of the first round…
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Hang on, it seems to be back! Vote now!
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Yep, now it worked. Thank you WordPress! 🙂
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It should expire at 1:30 today, UK time. But I may have accidentally reset it – whoops – and I’ve honestly no idea what happens when it expires. How exciting…
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