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)
发表于2024-12-24
By the Pricking of My Thumbs 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
我是住在城市里的人,虽然在逢年过节的时候也会跟父母一起回在山区的老家省亲。但是过短的时间是无法体会乡村的闲散生活的。我的环境是以“快”而著称的。所谓快,就像大多数都市人所了解的那样,是说的节奏。就算是已经退休的老年人也没有办法不受这个气氛的影响。我家附近的...
评分有时我觉得根据英文地名音译过来的名称很难记,有点不伦不类,听着像是假洋鬼子一样让人难以接受,但之所以记得这部书是因为故事情节中出现的让我影响深刻的一个对白,是由看到《麦克白》这个书名后,男主人公不由说起其中的著名诗句“tomorrow,tomorrow and tomorrow,...
评分呀好喜欢这对夫妇啊!!!好可爱!!!老了还这么有意思!闲不住的塔彭丝和无可奈何的汤米 wonderful match 案件本身仔细想想还挺无语 汤米姨妈在疗养院死了 死之前夫妇去看她 然后那个兰阿姨自己屁话多装神弄鬼神经兮兮引起了塔彭丝的怀疑(这位老奶奶是智慧 好奇心超级强 行...
评分人文的这套里,这本是汤米杜本丝夫妇最后一次出场了,《命运之门》似乎是发生在后来,但不知为啥没有收录。 这一本里,汤米和杜本丝貌似比《密码》里年纪更大了。结尾处杜本丝在危机时刻突然惊惶地意识到:可是我也老了……我没有信心打败她…… 看到这里有点伤感。 但是也...
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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
原版,一半是在公司到家里的路上走路读的。 拖沓有一点点 但是看的过程吸引,文字引人入胜
评分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!!
评分阿婆的这个系列总是无爱!阿婆但是一定很喜欢这对,所以总是极尽详细的描写!逻辑和方法对于侦探是多么重要! tuppence is such a stupid woman!
评分嗯,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)
评分语言和场景当然是浓浓的英伦风,可是总觉得情节介入有些牵强,为了把案子写成才放进来的感觉。嗯,没看完也不想看了。
By the Pricking of My Thumbs 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书