I’VE READ ALL 66 – AND SOLVED ONE!

As a teenager, I read all 66 Agatha Christie detective novels. I was always in the middle of one – each like a jigsaw puzzle you had to keep going back to. I only remember solving one of them: a character was said to have ‘suddenly looked very tired’, and I immediately knew he was the murderer. But the other 65 got away. My great regret is that, in the 11 years my life overlapped with the Queen of Crime’s, I never beat a path to her front door to say hello. I know she would have had a twinkle in her eye. And then I would have asked her, ‘How did you do it?’