- Fiction, Mystery, Women detectives, Detective and mystery stories
The very-respectable Colonel and Mrs Bantry have awakened to discover the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing evening dress and heavy make-up, which is now smeared across her cold cheeks. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is her connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry? The Bantrys turn to Miss Marple to solve the mystery.
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Classical in form, cool, earnest and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1942
- Pages
- 207
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, Dodd, Mead & company, Proa
- Editions
- 127
- Language
- German, tur, heb, Italian
- ISBN
- 9781572703247
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“Mrs. Bantry was dreaming.”
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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