- Fiction, Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories
Cousins by marriage and lovers by inclination, Roddy and Elinor were the ideal match. He loathed any display of emotion, while she was composed at all times. Then they got an anonymous letter warning that their rich Aunt Laura was thinking of cutting them off, and their perfect world vanished.
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Classical in form, grave, intimate and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1939
- Pages
- 239
- Publisher
- מ. מזרחי, Dodd Mead, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Editions
- 86
- Language
- Polish, German, English, French
- ISBN
- 9780553350234
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“AN anonymous letter!”
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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