Let's All Introduce Ourselves!

[evelyn_b]

Welcome! We've got more than a few members in this community now, so should we have an introduction post? Whether we should or not, we've got one now.

You can introduce yourself in any way you like, but if you're like me and prefer to answer community-related questions in a series, here's a series of questions for you:

1. What's the first mystery or other crime fiction you enjoyed?

2. What's the last thing you read/watched?

3. What are you looking forward to right now?

Feel free to ignore these questions and replace them with anything else you want to talk about! It's your introduction!

Comments

[hyarrowen]

Hello all! *waves*

1. The first mystery I read? Probably one of the Biggles Air Police stories. Not the best of the Biggles oeuvre, but I always enjoyed the flying elements. Of course I was in love with Biggles. Still am, TBH.

2. Last thing I read/watched. "Evil under the Sun"! And the twist took me completely by surprise. How on Earth did AC don it? I'm now on "Death Comes as the End" and I'm enjoying the Ancient Egyptian elements; I have the feeling that it was pure self-indulgence for AC.

3. What am I looking forward to? "Murder on the Orient Express"! I'll watch Branagh in anything, and I'm utterly fascinated by that moustache, in a "can even KB carry that off?" kind of way.

[evelyn_b]

Oh! I'm looking forward to Death Comes as the End a lot! There are a lot of books between that one and where I am in the chronology (many with "death" in the title).

An extravagant stache for extravagant greatness! I'm guaranteed to enjoy Murder on the Orient Express regardless of how good or bad it is.

I didn't realize Biggles was detection - I had a vague osmosis about sports adventures that I never bothered to investigate further. Maybe I should remedy that?

[hyarrowen]

I'm looking forward to Death Comes as the End a lot! There are a lot of books between that one and where I am in the chronology

My library system doesn't have a complete collection so I'm grabbing them as they appear on the shelves, with a vague underpinning of "the interwar ones are probably best to start with." This was in a Reader's Digest one-volume set of three which had been given to the library and it's been taken out an awful lot of times! Quality counts.

The Biggles Air Police stories probably aren't worth your while; they're generally reckoned to be the weakest in the canon. The best are the Great War stories; the author was an RFC pilot himself until he got shot down and they're astonishingly vivid and, for children's stories, don't pull any punches. But the mystery element is all but non-existent in these; it only gets front and centre when the author, um, ran out of wars. To put it very crudely. :(