By the Pricking of My Thumbs

Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in 100 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.Agatha Christie's first novel, The Mystery Affair of Styles, was written towards the end of the First World War, in which she served as a VAD. In it she created Hercule Poirot, the little Belgian detective who was destined to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. It was eventually published by The Bodley Head in 1920.In 1926, after averaging a book a year, Agatha Christie wrote her masterpiece. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was the first of her books to be published by Collins and marked the beginning of an author-publisher relationship which lasted for 50 years and well over 70 books. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was also the first of Agatha Christie's books to be dramatised - under the name Alibi - and to have a successful run in London's West End. The Mousetrap, her most famous play of all, opened in 1952 and is the longest-running play in history.Agatha Christie was made a Dame in 1971. She died in 1976, since when a number of books have been published posthumously: the bestselling novel Sleeping Murder appeared later that year, followed by her autobiography and the short story collection Miss Marple's Final Cases, Problem at Pollensa Bay and While the Light Lasts. In 1998 Black Coffee was the first of her plays to be novelised by another author, Charles Osborne.(from the first pages of Agatha Christie's paperbacks published by HarperCollins)

出版者:Harper Collins

作者:Agatha Christie

页数:352

出版时间:2001

价格:GBP5.99

装帧:paperback

isbn号码:9780007111497

丛书系列:Agatha Christie- HarperCollins 2003

图书标签:AgathaChristie英文原版推理阿加莎·克里斯蒂英国阿婆汤塔夫妇魔指

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'By the pricking of my thumbs

Something wicked this way comes.'

MACBETH

When Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they think nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all Ada is a very difficult old lady.

But when Mrs Lockett mentions a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs Lancaster talks about 'something behind the fireplace', Tommy and Tuppence find themselves caught up in an unexpected adventure involving a strange inheritance, a mysterious house, black magic, a missing tombstone - and almost death for the redoutable Tuppence...

'The most macabre and eerie Christie I have read for a long time.' Sunday Express

'Mystery at the usual high Christie level.' Evening Standard

读后感

阿婆笔下的汤米和塔彭丝夫妇，原著比电视剧（故事被收编到了《马普尔小姐探案》里）来得更精彩、更现实，事实告诉我们，纵然有着强烈的第六感，但也并不代表背后的真相能够手到擒来。 原著里的塔彭丝和汤米是对普通的英国中年夫妇，过着退休的生活，儿女早已成家，每天的日子简...  

年少时候读古龙与金庸，基本都过了一遍。至今仍念念不忘《绝代双娇》的首段，而《楚留香》里关于白玉美人的一段描写现在也能顺口而出。但是想来古龙作品中我能记住的，除了这两段也基本上只剩几个人名了。倒是金庸七上八下的15部作品，而今大都情节清楚，结局明白。 眼前阿婆...  

根据看了几十本阿加莎小说的经验，这次终于猜中犯罪嫌疑人，遗憾的是不是根据情节猜出来的。我觉得这部小说不如以前看过的那么精彩，因为基本上没有实际进行的犯罪，全都是人们谈话中透露的关于一些事情的传闻，支离破碎，而这些碎片都跟小说开头出现的和蔼的兰切斯特夫人有关...

用户评价

#谢谢D，生日礼物。这版俺自己都舍不得买啊~

I had a hunch who the murderer is, later I thought there are just too many unassuming details to nail down the murderer, and I'm RIGHT. Btw, 2 Brother Grimm tales are mentioned in this book: red riding hood, hensel and gretel. They do ring a bell, of those good old reading times at my grandma's when i was little, isn't it nice!!

嗯，以后别人再玩“先入为主”，都要想想阿婆已经玩成这样了，轻巧有效，一击即中。还有特别漂亮的闲来一笔：在乔西爵士的记忆中，年轻时的艾达美得仿佛画中仙子，他们有过花前月下的时光，但是最终分开了，并且没有再见过面。“过了几年，我听一个家伙说她是他看过的最丑的女人，真是不敢相信。不过我现在觉得后来没见过她也许是件值得庆幸的事。”（第一篇书评提了这笔八卦）

//2013.10.08

读前面觉得Tommy和Tuppence这对夫妇有点絮叨，结尾大逆转，并且小惊悚，完全没猜到。阿婆的语言虽然简洁明快，但有很多典型英式的智慧又有寓意的吐槽还是很值得玩味的。#路人转粉