Katzenfrau-Agatha Christie Reccommendation

What book would you suggest I begin my path down Agatha Christie lane with? I was discussing her with my grandmother who really enjoys her stuff so I thought I'd give her a try. I noticed you've reviewed quite a few of her books.

I know this question wasn't directed to me, but having read 50 or so of her books, I can make a few recommendations. I suggest you start with The Mysterious Affair at Styles, just to get an introduction to Hercule Poirot, then try The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Murder on the Orient Express. You won't be sorry.

Death on the Nile is also an excellent Poirot story to read after you've been introduced to Poirot. For Miss Marple try The Body in the Library

edited to add apologies for posting to a specialist group. I'd posted from Talk & hadn't realised the group purpose

Knowledge is power, where ever it comes from.

I've not been here long enough to be a group nazi. Feel free to post, and thank you. :)

Auntbeast: in my opinion, the first ten years AC was writing, she was trying to imitate Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, and it didn't quite work. So early works like Mysterious Affair at Styles (look her up on Wikipedia for a complete list) are not, in my opinion, good examples of what AC is all about. Likewise, after about 1968 she simply gets old and doddering, and the stories get less focused and less interesting.

Some of the books I have really, really enjoyed and think are excellent examples of what AC is all about are:
Any Miss Marple story EXCEPT Murder at the Vicarage
Peril at End House
Sad Cyprus
Murder on the Orient Express
Death on the Nile

A good AC is really, really, really good. A bad AC is really, really, really bad. The worst AC I've ever read is Passenger to Frankfurt. Not only was it written very late in her career, but it is one of her rare and always unsuccessful attempts to write a "spy thriller." The Tommy & Tuppence stories are pretty bad, IMO, because they're supposed to be spy thrillers.