- Fiction, Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character), Jane Marple (Fictitious character), Murder
First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding...then the discovery of a corpse in a chest...next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder...the strange case of the dead man who altered his eating habits...and the puzzle of the victim who dreamt his own suicide. What links these five baffling cases? The little grey cells of Monsieur Hercule Poirot!
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Classical in form, resolved, cool and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1960
- Pages
- 249
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, Harper, LGF
- Editions
- 50
- Language
- Polish, English, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780007422111
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- Fiction
- Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character)
- Jane Marple (Fictitious character)
- Murder
- Mystery
- Private investigators
- Poirot, hercule (fictitious character), fiction
- Private investigators, fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
- English Detective and mystery stories
- Investigation
- Detective and mystery stories
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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