- Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character), Fiction, Mystery, Large type books
A few weeks after marrying an attractive young widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs. Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the Cloade family fortune.
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Classical in form, cool, grave and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1948
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Avon Original, A. Mondadori, Dell Pub. Co.
- Editions
- 85
- Language
- Polish, Spanish, Arabic, English
- ISBN
- 9789504908050
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- Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character)
- Fiction
- Mystery
- Large type books
- Private investigators
- Translations from English
- German Detective and mystery stories
- England, fiction
- Poirot, hercule (fictitious character), fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
- English literature
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
“WARMSLEY Heath consists of a Golf Course, two Hotels, some very expensive modern villas giving onto the Golf Course, a row of what were, before the war luxury shops, and a railway station.”
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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