A Good Old Fashioned 'Who Dunnit'- A few of my favourite things

My love of mysteries began in my late teens when I spotted a Sherlock Holmes volume when browsing through my Uncles bookcase, and thought I'd give it a go..... or maybe it was earlier with Enid Blytons 'Secret Seven' series...
Anyway, I LOVE reading and watching a good old 'Who Dunnit' because.......

• Agatha Christie
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• In my head when I'm reading them, I have a posh British accent.
• Jeremy Brett acting as Sherlock Holmes.
• David Suchet acting as Poirot.
• An elderly old busy body being a heroin, (Miss Marple).
• The 'Murder Rooms' series of mysteries, very loosly based on the actual friendship/working relationship between Dr Joseph Bell and Arthur Conan Doyle.  Doyle did get his inspiration for Sherlock Holmes from Dr Joseph Bell and his crime observations.  Urban legend has it that: "According to Dr Ely Liebow, Bell correctly identified Jack the Ripper. "Bell and a friend analyzed the Ripper killings and put the name of the killer in an envelope. They gave the envelope to the Edinburgh police, who sent it to London, where the crimes occurred. The contents were never divulged, but there were no more murders..."
  
• Midsomer Murders.
• Villages, train carriages, telegrams, letter writing, horses, butlers and cooks, houses with their own libraries, inheritances and family feuds, poisons, scandalous behaviour, shocking twists.

I'm actually collecting Agatha Christie stories for my library (ok little old dusty book shelf).
If you have any of these books that I can claim / buy, off you, let me know (calicojoni@gmail.com):

• At Bertrams Hotel
• The Moving Finger
• Sleeping Murder
• Absent in the Spring
• And then there were none
• The Burden
• A Daughter's a Daughter
• Death comes as the end.
• Giant's Bread

Calico Jo
www.calicojo.co.nz

• Elephants can remember
• Lord Edgware Dies
• Murder in Mesopotamia

• Unfinished Portrait
• The A.B.C. murders
• Appointment with death
• Black Coffee
• They came to Baghdad