This one arrived today: the Book Club edition of Destination Unknown (1955). My sixth Agatha Christie title from the Book Club. Very affordable books with more creative covers than Collins Crime Club made for Christie! #Agathachristie #bookclub #destinationunknow #crime

New! The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: the ultimate mystery edition! (with the final solution sealed in an envelope at the back of the book). A nice pair with another Christie classic. Which title will the next Ultimate Mystery Edition??? #agathachristie #rogerackroyd

Six #AgathaChristie titles were reprinted by Boek&Wereld in the 50s. Small, magazine-thin books with unique covers. Three of them were part of a detective omnibus in slipcase with 3 books by Gardner. Later the Christie titles changed, like The snowed-in Sleeper (became Murder on the Orient Express)

Today I added the 1st Fontana ed. of Lord Edgware Dies to my collection. This paperback from 1954 was hard to find in the Netherlands... (strangely enough, some earlier Fontana editions turn up more regularly).This one is getting a nice spot among the other Fontanas #AgathaChristie #LordEdgwareDies

For sale in the Netherlands: a signed copy of Agatha Christie's 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd' (Penguin 1st 1948). The book has stamp from R. Harben's Literary Agency. Harben had connections with Christie's Dutch publishers Sijthoff. Interested? It's 995 euro's 😃 www.deslegte.com/the-murder-o...

I spent my day off in Amsterdam today. Waterstones and the American Book Center had a whole lot of Christie's on display! And I found some nice paperbacks at the Friday book market to take home. #agathachristie #tolkien #mousetrap

SHE'S HERE! Introducing our deep dive into the world of Mary Westmacott, Agatha Christie's secret identity. Check out the first episode of Westmapod on Spotify now! (It's filtering across to other platforms too, should be on Apple shortly) #AgathaChristie

Last month, the Dutch independent weekly magazine #GroeneAmsterdammer (very 'highbrow'!) published five pages about #AgathaChristie. The Queen of Crime is even on the cover! "Agatha Christie was razor-sharp, her orderly detective novels were a response to the chaos of modernity!"

A big book market in Den Bosch this weekend, 100.000 secondhand books. I found these vintage paperbacks on friday, great to enlarge and upgrade my collection! #AgathaChristie #albatross #fontana #tolkien

Rainbow Publishers reissues two Agatha Christie titles each year. In december, we received 2 debut novels: Poirot's Styles and Miss Marple's Vicarage. There are now 10 in total and I wonder what we'll get in 2026! I'm hoping for Pale Horse and Five Little Pigs! #rainbowuitgeverij #agathachristie

After Christmas it's reading time. Some beautiful Dutch paperbacks from the fifties from publisher LJ Veen. Classic titles, big big books 😀

Finally found an English hardcover edition of #Styles! This Centenary Edition is from 1990. #AgathaChristie was born in 1890. Somehow, this copy from the Croydon library found its way to the Netherlands. The cover is a facsimile of the first edition from 1920 😀.

This is the first Dutch edition (1932) of #AgathaChristie's first book: The Mysterious Affair at #Styles. It was Christie's seventh title published in the Netherlands. Dutch title: The Innocent Murderer. (Is that saying too much? 🤫🤔) Subtitle: one of Agatha Christie's mysterious stories.

A Happy Halloween (party)!! 👻☠💀🕸

This is one of my favorite Dutch #AgathaChristie paperbacks: The Body in the Library (Dutch: Death of a Dancer); 1952. Part 4 of the Atlas Mystery Series (only 22 volumes, with books by ao Christie, Sayers, Cheyney). Unfortunately, Christie's name is misspelled, but otherwise what great cover!

Happy to add another #OrientExpress to my #AgathaChristie collection. This is a limited edition from 2005. The books were made for the Venice Simplon Orient Express (VSOE) and sold on board the train. The 2005 edition is the only one with a dust jacket. And a very nice one, especially the back!!

This is #LilianJacksonBraun's first book published in the Netherlands (1970). Not yet 'The Cat Who' in the title, but : A Bachelor in Doubt (The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern 1967). Since the 1980s, however, all of Jackson's books have been published in paperback with "The Cat Who" in the title!

#AgathaChristie's best books are being republished in the Netherlands by Uitgeverij Rainbow: beautiful hardcovers that are also being reprinted! (I'm currently rereading The ABC Murders). Two more titles will follow in december: Styles and Murder at the Vicarage. A modern-day Christie for Christmas!

This is a movie magazine (10 pages) about Death on the Nile (Murder on the Nile in Dutch); with photos, storyline, and actor info. The movie tie-in is being advertised. Never seen anything like this; no idea how it was distributed or to whom. 🤷 Together a nice set for my Christie collection 😀

Look what I just found in a charity shop in Torquay! 😀. A beautiful facsimile edition of Murder on the Orient Express! With the bellyband and as new. A great souvenir to take home with me and read in the plane tomorrow after visiting lots of events at he @agathafestival.bsky.social this weekend!

Yesterday I arrived at #Torquay and today I went my to first event at the @agathafestival.bsky.social, John Curran's 'Agatha Christie & the Murder Game'. Of course it ended in me buying a book...😀. Later in Torre Abbey I took a look at Tom Adams great artwork. And there is even more to come today!

Wind and rain today in York, but still a great visit. Walked the walls and went to the minster of course. And York has great bookshops loke Criminally Good Book & took some souvenirs with me from Lucius Books #AgathaChristie

Day 2 in Yorkshire: no Christie but #Brontë! In #Haworth I visited the Brontë home where great novels were written! There was a very early Dutch edition of #JaneEyre on display (I think 1874? With still the name Currer Bell, Charlotte's pen name) and this little Penguin Archive is my souvenir!

On my first day in Yorkshire I visited Harrogate and of course I went to the Old Swan hotel where Agatha Christie stayed during here 'missing days' in 1926. Nearby Knaresborough is worth a visit too!

This will be my main book for the next 8 to 9 days, as I am visiting #Yorkshire for my vacation! After that, I am heading south to #Torquay to attend some events at the @agathafestival.bsky.social - I can't wait!

Although I've seen almost every Bond film (more than once 🙂), I'd never read or collected any of Ian Fleming's books. Perhaps these are a start: Casino Royale & Diamonds Are Forever. The books are in Dutch but have English titles (so iconic that translation is unnecessary...) #ianfleming #jamesbond

Found four more of these great #agathachristie paperbacks from the 90s with this retro covers!

Auction: letter From Agatha Christie (signed Mallowan) to Lady Stewart, it is from the sixties @christietime.bsky.social! She talks about houses and... taxes. Written on paper from a hotel in Cleveland, Ohio, it seems. @collectchristie.bsky.social www.catawiki.com/nl/l/9698212...

Some great books for my crime collection arrived today. Vintage Dutch paperbacks from the Prisma Detective Series. Beautiful covers from the 50s & 60s and famous authors like #JosephineTey #DorothySayers #NgaioMarsh #AndrewGarve and more. Nice for the summer evenings now and my holiday next month 😎✈️

This fantastic collector's item arrived last week. The 1st Fontana edition of Towards Zero with a Tom Adams cover; signed by the artist! This book was part of a special sale by @julesburt-yt.bsky.social and Georgie Adams (Tom's widow). All the ephemera included makes it extra special!

These are the only Mary Westmacott titles published in Dutch. Only one ed. in the 70s, so quite rare now. From left to right: A Daughter's a Daughter; Unfinished Portrait; The Burden. On the cover it says: 'MW known to everyone as Agatha Christie'. The covers are based on the USA Dell paperbacks.

Some nice 'Dutch' finds at the thrift store today. The very first Agatha Christie in Dutch! (Secret Adversary 1925); a movie tie in (nice hardcover of Ordeal by Innocence, 1985, with Donald Sutherland on the cover) and three Albatross paperbacks from 1947 with the jackets (all printed in Holland).

Back from a week in Norway (Oslo & Bergen); amazing cities and what a beautiful train ride in between! I found some nice souvenirs in Oslo (at Prismatic Pages & Cappelens Vorslag). One of the last Andrew Garve titles I was looking for and a few more vintage books! #AgathaChristie #Penguin #TomAdams

A very bookish Easter with markets in Wageningen en Bredevoort. Found some Christie/Westmacott, Dutch classics and international classics, crime and more! Memento Mori because I heard of it in the @christietime.bsky.social Christie/Spark episode. And I'll try a Dick Francis, new for me...

Had a short holiday in France (Lille & Roubaix) and brought home a nice souvenir: the facsimile edition of the 1st French edition of Styles. All early Christies were re-issued in this way a few years ago. Other photo: a real 1st edition of Cards on the Table (1939).

Some Collins Crime Club titles I added to my collection last month. Two of my favourite authors: Andrew Garve and Robert Barnard. Great crime and mystery/thriller fiction to read the coming weeks!

A nice week for my #AgathaChristie collection! I found the Greenway edition (1978) of Elephants Can Remember and added the 1st edition of While the Light Lasts, a short story collection with previously unpublished stories from 1997 (with a great Geoffrey Appleton cover). Scarce books (here in NL!)

After Agatha Christie, PD James is one of my favorite writers. I have added a number of first editions to my book collection. Beautiful, big books by faber&faber. Death of an Expert Witness (1977) has a nice bonus: stamps and stickers from her UK and international literary agents.

This is the scarcest Dutch #AgathaChristie 1st edition. Towards Zero ("The murderer wore blue" in Dutch) was an illegal publication by Schoonderbeek in 1948, for another publisher got the rights at the last moment. Almost all copies were destroyed. This one can be found in our National Library.

Last year I did some research in the Dutch Royal Library for early Dutch editions of #AgathaChristie. Sadly, I only found one with a jacket: The Mystery of the Blue Train. The cover design is the same as the English first edition and was published in the Netherlands by H.P. Leopold in 1929.

These postcards are the cheapest way to hold the pre-war #AgathaChristie covers in your hands and enjoy the design of classic titles. I found 7 in a second-hand bookshop. There are 100 in total, for sale as a 'Classic Book Covers' set. Something to look out for!