- Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories, Open Library Staff Picks
Sixteen years after Caroline Crale has been convicted of the murder of her husband, Amyas Crale, her daughter, Carla Lemarchant, approaches Poirot to investigate the case. Poirot embarks optimistically upon an unprecedented challenge, but soon fears that the case may be as cut and dried as it had first appeared.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1942
- Pages
- 234
- Publisher
- Berkley, RBA Coleccionables, S.A., Collins
- Editions
- 111
- Language
- Italian, Chinese, German, French
- ISBN
- 9788467057348
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“HERCULE Poirot looked with interest and appreciation at the young woman who was being ushered into the room.”
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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