A new book from the Queen of Mystery?? Sort of! A Deadly Affair is a collection of Agatha Christie short stories, all with a theme of love and relationships (gone wrong). Over the last couple of years, I’ve read seven Agatha Christie books, and I was well acquainted with many of the characters in these stories - we get Miss Marple, Tuppence and Tommy, Hercule Poirot and more. These stories aren’t quite as satisfying as her full-book mysteries (of course), but they were a lot of fun, especially reading one or two at a time over a few weeks. Reading them that way reminded me of my childhood love of Encyclopedia Brown and Cam Jansen, and made me imagine how much fun it must have been for Christie’s readers to get these bite-size locked room mysteries she was so skilled at writing.