Comments on: Some tea, detective?

By: +: etcetera :+ » The Titular Head

+: etcetera :+ » The Titular Head — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 09:57:15 +0000

[…] We are just a day or two into the new year. A year in which Agatha Christie hogged all the limelight, more or less. In two separate studies, scientists claim to have unlocked the secret of why her books are so popular, even though they star protoganists we’d rather not drink tea with. […]

By: sathish

sathish — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:36:07 +0000

I would love to have bush tea with you!

I am currently reading her first novel. enjoying it thoroughly.. simple language and lovable character

By: Karthik

Karthik — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:10:33 +0000

Heh, Mondays are like that only. BTW, you left an URL this time, and your blog is impressive — especially some of the 55-word shorts.

Ammani, will check out the URL later today, I can’t listen to the clip at work for some reason.

By: Poornima

Poornima — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:02:46 +0000

I’d rather pay people not to have tea with me! Gah– there I go, over estimating myself again. But then, guess it rubbed off from the swank-headed characters I seem to be reading all the time. Sigh… one of those days. Say, its a Monday today no?

By: ammani

ammani — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:13:03 +0000

Good post. Please visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/afternoonplay.shtml and then click on play on Tuesday to listen to dramatisation of one of Mma Ramotswe’s cases.

By: Karthik

Karthik — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 07:37:35 +0000

Poornima, you know your Christie better than me. I confess — I’ve only read a few Poirots and Marples, and I wasn’t that taken in by what I read. There was a lot of hand waving — and Miss Marple always seemed to have something suspiciously like the current mystery happen to her in the past.

But a lot of my friends swear by her, so I’ll dismiss this as one of those things I don’t really get…

And you know what, I’ll have tea with pretty much anyone if they pay for it

And Prash, I am kinda scared now. I hope you are not a violent person.

By: Poornima

Poornima — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 07:27:39 +0000

Hey, what about Bundle of Christie fame? She comes in Seven dials and one more. Then again Victoria Jones of ‘They came to Baghdad’ was interesting. Chance investigators. But good nevertheless. Tea with them wouldn’t be so bad an affir. Well, Christie did write some amazing mysteries.

By: Karthik

Karthik — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 02:01:14 +0000

DoZ, you’ve convinced me!

By: DoZ

DoZ — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 22:11:35 +0000

I am a die-hard Holmes fan, but I agree with you. I’d rather spend an evening with Dr. Watson than Holmes. I love Poirot, but fear he may sneer at my Chai. Anyone who speaks French, or English with a French accent automatically makes me feel like I just moved out Pillayar Palayam (substitute with any other small town / sub-urb in small town in T.Nadu).

I’ve always hated Miss. Marple, so the idea of spending any time with her doesn’t remotely appeal. The only Christie characters I hate even more than the Marple woman are Tommy Tuppence! Ughhh!

Auguste Dupin (of the Murders in the Rue Morgue) has the same problems as Holmes. Brilliant, but taciturn, if I remember correctly. And worse, this one’s French too! So he’s out.

Lord Peter Wimsey is an attractive candidate — being English, and a peer, I feel confident that he may be relied upon to supply the best Darjeeling or Assam tea, and sandwiches with the cucumber slices cut just so, and scones and tea cakes too. But we also run the risk that being English, he might just throw abominations like Earl Gray at me. Gad!

But all is not lost. If it’s a cuppa chai you want to share with a detective, surely, HRF Keating’s Inspector Ghote has to top the list! Ahh, chai, Indian style (from a street vendor, of course!) sipped standing on a busy road side or sitting on one of those benches all the tea-kadai’s back home come with. Maybe even a batata-wada or bhel thrown in for good measure, probably for free. Who asks a cop to pay up? And a desi who speaks English just like I do, and won’t keep correcting my grammar or asking me to repeat things because he can’t understand what am talking about…All this and a skilled detective to boot. Now, that is what I call a perfect evening

By: Poornima

Poornima — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 06:55:45 +0000

Lol– yeah– stay off dudes!!!

By: prash

prash — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:26:38 +0000

daaaaiiii!
evanda avan hercule poirot pathi thappa pesinadhu!!!
what can i say — i really do love that little baldy, cutey, brainy!

By: Karthik

Karthik — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:20:27 +0000

Uggh, ‘nother reason to stay off the dude.

By: Poornima

Poornima — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:12:17 +0000

Poirot drinks his tea Chinese… weak and verrrry foreign. That’s the latest I read about his tea drinking habit!

By: tilo

tilo — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 15:48:27 +0000

Discovered her a while ago and loved her ever since.

By: Karthik

Karthik — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:15:53 +0000

GI,
I read that Miss Marple started off really mean, before Christie started sanitizing her over time. She was pretty grumpy (and gossipy) in her later books, and I shudder to think what she would’ve been before she got sanitized. Mma rules.

Thanks for stopping by (and the kind words).

By: GI

GI — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:59:12 +0000

I had to chuckle when I read this post. My younger sis is a Sherlock Holmes freak. I will surely pass along this blog for her to read. Miss Marple is quite a character. I guess when she was young she had a very big thing for gossiping. How else could she grow up to be Miss Marple right? Maybe I will end up like her if I continue the way I am right now. So tell my friends. BTW nice blog