- English Detective and mystery plays, British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author), Drama (dramatic works by one author), Dramatic works
Table of Contents 1. Ten Little Indians 2. Appointment With Death 3. The Hollow 4. The Mousetrap 5. Witness for the Prosecution 6. Towards Zero 7. Verdict 8. Go Back for Murder
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- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1978
- Pages
- 659
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group, Bantam Doubleday Dell, New American Library
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780062244031
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“An Agatha Christie is, of course, a mystery novel, cleanly written, masterfully surprising, and usually featuring Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple.”
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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