- English Detective and mystery stories, Lectures et morceaux choisis, Detective and mystery stories, Anglais (langue)
It started when a false step from a misty footpath sent a mysterious stranger plummeting to his death. How was Bobby Jones to know that witnessing the dying man's last words--"Why didn't they ask Evans?"--would send him on a death-defying chase? Bobby and his unlikely partner in detection, Lady Frances Derwent, end up in pursuit of a hauntingly beautiful woman--and a cunning killer who is out to do them in! This description comes from the 1984 Berkley edition.
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Classical in form, resolved, earnest and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1934
- Pages
- 254
- Publisher
- RosettaBooks, HarperCollins Publishers, Sine nomine
- Editions
- 92
- Language
- German, heb, tha, French
- ISBN
- 9785170124749
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“Bobby Jones' teed up his ball, gave a short preliminary waggle, took the club back slowly, then brought it down and through with the rapidity of lightning.”
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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