- Fiction, Mystery, Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character)
There's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way though the alphabet. There seems little chance of the murderer being caught - until her makes the crucial and vain mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot to frustrate his plans . . .
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Classical in form, cool, resolved and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1936
- Pages
- 227
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio, Espasa, BBC Audiobooks Ltd
- Editions
- 142
- Language
- French, Spanish, gre, Polish
- ISBN
- 9780613636315
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“IT was in June of 1935 that I came home from my ranch in South America for a stay of about six months.”
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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