- Fiction, Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Murder
Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is summoned to France after receiving a distressing letter with a urgent cry for help. Upon his arrival in Merlinville-sur-Mer, the investigator finds the man who penned the letter, the South American millionaire Monsieur Renauld, stabbed to death and his body flung into a freshly dug open grave on the golf course adjoining the property.
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- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1923
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Editorial Molino, HarperCollins Publishers, Independently Published
- Editions
- 272
- Language
- Italian, Chinese, Portuguese, German
- ISBN
- 9798739917010
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“I believe that a well-known anecdote exists to the effect that a young writer, determined to make the commencement of his story forcible and original enough to catch and rivet the attention of the most blasé of editors, penned the following sentence: " 'Hell!' said the Duchess."”
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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