- Mystery, English Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Paranormal fiction
A conjurer of skill with an instinct for detection, Mr. Harley Quin has an almost magical flair for appearing at the scene of the most remarkable crimes. But is it just a trick of light that haunts his shadow with a ghostly apparition? Is it fate that invites him to a New Year's murder? And what forces are at work when his car breaks down outside Royalston Hall, an isolated estate with a deadly history?
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- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
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- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1930
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Berkley, Collins, Editorial Molino
- Editions
- 71
- Language
- Italian, Chinese, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9787513323710
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“It was New Year's Eve.”
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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