- Fiction, Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Chief Inspector Japp (Fictitious character)
The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung right hand. Later, one of his patients was found dead from a lethal dose of local anaesthetic. A clear case of murder and suicide. But why would a dentist commit a crime in the middle of a busy day of appointments? A shoe buckle holds the key to the mystery. Now – in the words of the rhyme – can Poirot pick up the sticks and lay them straight?
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Classical in form, cool, resolved and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1940
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Collins, Molino., Berkley
- Editions
- 104
- Language
- fin, Italian, Portuguese, German
- ISBN
- 9789610136439
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“MR. Morley was not in the best of tempers at breakfast.”
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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