- Fiction, Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character), Murder in fiction, Murder
Sir Charles Cartwright should have known better than to allow thirteen guests to sit down for dinner. For at the end of the evening one of them is dead—choked by a cocktail that contained no trace of poison. Predictable, says Hercule Poirot, the great detective. But entirely unpredictable is that he can find absolutely no motive for murder.…
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Cool, classical in form, spare and intimate.
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1934
- Pages
- 233
- Publisher
- Wydawnictwo Hachette, Berkley, Goldmann
- Editions
- 103
- Language
- Japanese, Chinese, German, French
- ISBN
- 9780007120901
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“MR. Satterthwaite sat on the terrace of Crow's Nest and watched his host, Sir Charles Cartwright, climbing up the path from the sea.”
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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