- Fiction, Jane Marple (Fictitious character), Women detectives, Detective and mystery stories
E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on They Do It with Mirrors;2) "The Marples": the complete guide to all the cases of crime literature's foremost female detective.A sense of danger pervades the rambling Victorian mansion in which Jane Marple’s friend Carrie Louise lives—and not only because the building doubles as a rehabilitation centre for criminal youths. One inmate attempts, and fails, to shoot dead the administrator. But simultaneously, in another part of the building, a mysterious visitor is less lucky. Miss Marple must employ all her cunning to solve the riddle of the stranger’s visit, and his murder—while protecting her friend from a similarly dreadful fate.The New York Times: ‘No one on either side of the Atlantic does it better.’
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- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1952
- Pages
- 207
- Publisher
- Collins, William Morrow & Company, Altın Kitaplar
- Editions
- 114
- Language
- Italian, Chinese, German, French
- ISBN
- 9780396060673
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- Fiction
- Jane Marple (Fictitious character)
- Women detectives
- Detective and mystery stories
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- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
- English literature
- Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
- Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
- English language
“MRS VAN RYDOCK moved a little back from the mirror and sighed.”
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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