- Fiction, Mystery, Belgians, Detective and mystery stories
Three young women share a London flat. The first is a coolly efficient personal secretary; the second an artist. The third interrupts Hercule Poirot's breakfast of 'Brioche' and 'Chocolat' insisting she is a murderer – and then promptly disappears. Slowly, Poirot learns of the rumours surrounding the mysterious third girl, her family – and her disappearance. Yet hard evidence is needed before the great detective can pronounce her guilty, innocent or insane…
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Classical in form, cool, plot-driven and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1966
- Pages
- 253
- Publisher
- Editions Du Masque, Pub. for the Crime Club by Collins, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Editions
- 99
- Language
- vie, Polish, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780061003820
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“HERCULE Poirot was sitting at the breakfast table.”
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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