- Fiction, Mystery, Women detectives, Mystery and detective stories
E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Nemesis;2) "The Marples": the complete guide to all the cases of crime literature's foremost female detective.Even the unflappable Miss Marple is astounded as she reads the letter addressed to her on instructions from the recently deceased tycoon Mr Jason Rafiel, whom she had met on holiday in the West Indies (A Caribbean Mystery).
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- earnestironic
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- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1970
- Pages
- 230
- Publisher
- RBA Coleccionables, S.A., Fontana / Collins, Agatha Christie, Ltd.
- Editions
- 103
- Language
- Dutch, Italian, Chinese, German
- ISBN
- 9789875800168
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“In the afternoons it was the custom of Miss Jane Marple to unfold her second newspaper.”
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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