- Fiction, Mystery, Jane Marple (Fictitious character), Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Agatha Christie’s audacious mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1957
- Pages
- 253
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, Rebound by Sagebrush, Dodd, Mead
- Editions
- 140
- Language
- vie, Polish, Hindi, Russian
- ISBN
- 9780451200518
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“Mrs. McGillicuddy panted along the platform in the wake of the porter carrying her suitcase.”
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, in the United Kingdom, the daughter of a wealthy American stockbroker. Her father died when she was eleven years old. Her mother taught her at home, encouraging her to write at a very young age. At the age of 16, she went to Mrs. Dryden's finishing school in Paris to study singing and piano. In 1914, at age 24, she married Colonel Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. While he went away to war, she worked as a nurse and wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), which wasn't published until four years later. When her husband came back from the war, they had a daughter. In 1928 she divorced her hus
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