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Thriller Queens: Agatha Christie vs. Patricia Highsmith
- reddit_clone 8y agoCouldn't read the article. Paywalled. Did Agatha Christie write thrillers though? They are more like 'murder mysteries' than thrillers like books written by say Fredrick Forsyth.
- zem 8y agothe non-paywalled first paragraph at least addresses that: "Hercule Poirot and Tom Ripley. At first sight, the retired Belgian detective and the gentleman psychopath have little in common: Poirot solves crimes, Ripley commits them. Their creators, too, stand at opposite ends of the crime-writing spectrum — Agatha Christie, still the world’s bestselling author, is regarded as the writer of comfort-read whodunnits, while in Patricia Highsmith’s universe morality is turned on its head and the reader actively rejoices with Ripley as he gets away with murder."