- Police, Superintendent Battle (Fictitious character), Fiction, Serial murder investigation
Luke Fitzwilliam, a retired colonial policeman has returned to England and chances to converse on a train with a woman who reminds him of a favorite aunt. She informs him that she is reporting three murders to Scotland Yard and is hoping to prevent a fourth, that of a village doctor. Before she can do so, she is killed by a car, and a short time later the doctor she mentioned is killed. Fitzwilliam decides to investigate these five deaths.
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- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1969
- Pages
- 223
- Publisher
- Livre de Poche, מ. מזרחי, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
- Editions
- 95
- Language
- ind, Polish, English, German
- ISBN
- 9783502551638
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- Police
- Superintendent Battle (Fictitious character)
- Fiction
- Serial murder investigation
- Serial murder
- Serial murders
- Detective and mystery stories
- Luke Fitzwilliam (Fictitious character)
- Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
- Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
- England, fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
“England! England after many years!”
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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