It´s been a while since I´ve had a good dose of Christie. Manolo reads everything of hers he can get his hands on as long as he can get the books in English. She is also very popular translated into Spanish but my picky translator´s mind hasn´t found an adequate version yet and he prefers original versions whenever possible.
I do think I had to grow into her, also. My dad would often get her books from the library and I´d pick up one or another now and then and think "boring". In later years I began seeing what a mistress of precision she was with words when I started working with them myself.