- Fiction, Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Private investigators in fiction
It was the match-up of the century: four sleuths--Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard; Mrs. Ariadne Oliver, famed writer of detective stories; Col. Race of His Majesty's Secret Service; and the incomparable Hercule Poirot - invited to play bridge with four specially invited guests, each of whom had gotten away with murder! But before the first rubber was completed, the host was dead.
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- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1936
- Pages
- 226
- Publisher
- Collins, Berkley, William Morrow & Company
- Editions
- 107
- Language
- Italian, tur, Chinese, German
- ISBN
- 9781572704916
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- Fiction
- Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character)
- Private investigators
- Private investigators in fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- Mystery
- Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) Fiction
- Zhen tan xiao shuo
- Chang pian xiao shuo
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
- Private investigators, fiction
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“"MY dear Monsieur Poirot!" It was a soft purring voice used deliberately as an instrument-nothing impulsive or unpremeditated about it.”
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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