- Fiction in Spanish, Murder, Rosemary, Fiction
Six people sit down to a sumptuous meal at a table laid for seven. A sprig of rosemary -- 'rosemary for remembrance' -- marks the empty place. It is the first anniversary of the horrific death by cyanide-laced champagne of the beautiful and troublesome Rosemary Barton.
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Intimate, classical in form, spare and grave.
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1945
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Editorial Molino, HarperCollins Publishers, Independently Published
- Editions
- 111
- Language
- Chinese, Hindi, German, French
- ISBN
- 9780061003790
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“Iris Marle was thinking about her sister, Rosemary.”
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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