- Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character), Fiction, Mystery, Private investigators
When a young woman is found in a locked room having been shot, the police assume it’s suicide. However, when Poirot looks further he begins to suspect murder – would a right-handed woman shoot herself from the left?
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Classical in form, intimate, cool and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1955
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, Pan, Distribooks, Inc
- Editions
- 34
- Language
- Polish, German, English, French
- ISBN
- 9780886460907
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- Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character)
- Fiction
- Mystery
- Private investigators
- Mystery fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- Detective and mystery fiction
- English Short stories
- English Detective and mystery stories
- Poirot, hercule (fictitious character), fiction
- Private investigators, fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
“THE flat was a modern one.”
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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