
Originally Posted by
Rowdon
I know what you mean; her name is used all over the place to represent a genre, and that can be very annoying if you enjoy the genre and have to constantly hear "Oh - like Agatha Christie?" when you're describing Ruth Rendell or P.D James or Ellery Queen or any number of writers who really aren't like her ... Having said all that, I accept that she is 'overrated' if you mean that the distance between her fame and the fame of the next writer down the list far exceeds the difference in quality or invention or entertainment offered, (With certain exceptions that she seems to have written on autopilot).
Of course I agree with the basic gist of your post, that Margaret Rutherford makes a great Miss Marple - in my opinion the best - principally because it is her.