When reading Agatha Christie’s Third Girl recently, I was fascinated by a paragraph on the very first page, when Hercule Poirot is celebrating having finished his own book, one in which he dissects and rates works of detective fiction and their authors. I was intrigued by this because knowing Agatha Christie as part of The Detection Club, we can assume this sort of thing was discussed at length during their meetings, and so we could speculate that these opinions of Poirot’s were actually the opinions of Agatha herself. I found myself wishing there were more to this short section and that we could gain even further insight into her true thoughts on other books and authors.