- Mystery, Fiction, Jane Marple (Fictitious character), Large type books
Three generations of the Leonides family live together in a large, if somewhat crooked looking, house. Then the wealthy patriarch, Aristide, is murdered. Suspicion falls on the whole household, including Aristide's two sons, his widow – fifty years his junior – and even his three grandchildren.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1949
- Pages
- 219
- Publisher
- the crime club, William Morrow & Company, The Crime Club
- Editions
- 115
- Language
- Chinese, Portuguese, German, French
- ISBN
- 9789724127811
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“I first came to know Sophia Leonides in Egypt towards the end of the war.”
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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