- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Romance
Whilst organising a mock murder hunt for the village fete hosted by Sir George and Lady Stubbs, a feeling of dread settles on the famous crime novelist Adriane Oliver. Call it instinct, but it's a feeling she just can't explain…or get away from. In desperation she summons her old friend, Hercule Poirot – and her instincts are soon proved correct when the 'pretend' murder victim is discovered playing the scene for real, a rope wrapped tightly around her neck…But it's the great detective who first discovers that in murder hunts, whether mock or real, everyone is playing a part…
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Classical in form, resolved, spare and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1956
- Pages
- 217
- Publisher
- Collins, Fontana / Collins, The Crime Club
- Editions
- 96
- Language
- Chinese, German, French, vie
- ISBN
- 9782702419878
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“IT was Miss Lemon, Poirot's efficient secretary, who took the telephone call.”
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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