- English Detective and mystery stories, Private investigators, Fiction, Investigadores privados
Normally, a mere outbreak of petty thefts in a youth hostel wouldn't be enough to interest the great detective Hercule Poirot. However, the warden of the hostel is sister to Poirot's secretary Miss Lemon, and concern for her sister is interfering with Miss Lemon's typing abilities. Poirot finds himself with an intriguing puzzle on his hands, and before long, murder increases the mystery.
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- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1952
- Pages
- 217
- Publisher
- Charing Cross Road, The Crime Club, Collins [for] the Crime Club
- Editions
- 89
- Language
- Italian, tur, Chinese, German
- ISBN
- 9798560100261
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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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