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)
'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
阿婆筆下的湯米和塔彭絲夫婦,原著比電視劇(故事被收編到瞭《馬普爾小姐探案》裏)來得更精彩、更現實,事實告訴我們,縱然有著強烈的第六感,但也並不代錶背後的真相能夠手到擒來。 原著裏的塔彭絲和湯米是對普通的英國中年夫婦,過著退休的生活,兒女早已成傢,每天的日子簡...
評分年少時候讀古龍與金庸,基本都過瞭一遍。至今仍念念不忘《絕代雙嬌》的首段,而《楚留香》裏關於白玉美人的一段描寫現在也能順口而齣。但是想來古龍作品中我能記住的,除瞭這兩段也基本上隻剩幾個人名瞭。倒是金庸七上八下的15部作品,而今大都情節清楚,結局明白。 眼前阿婆...
評分人文的這套裏,這本是湯米杜本絲夫婦最後一次齣場瞭,《命運之門》似乎是發生在後來,但不知為啥沒有收錄。 這一本裏,湯米和杜本絲貌似比《密碼》裏年紀更大瞭。結尾處杜本絲在危機時刻突然驚惶地意識到:可是我也老瞭……我沒有信心打敗她…… 看到這裏有點傷感。 但是也...
評分呀好喜歡這對夫婦啊!!!好可愛!!!老瞭還這麼有意思!閑不住的塔彭絲和無可奈何的湯米 wonderful match 案件本身仔細想想還挺無語 湯米姨媽在療養院死瞭 死之前夫婦去看她 然後那個蘭阿姨自己屁話多裝神弄鬼神經兮兮引起瞭塔彭絲的懷疑(這位老奶奶是智慧 好奇心超級強 行...
評分語言和場景當然是濃濃的英倫風,可是總覺得情節介入有些牽強,為瞭把案子寫成纔放進來的感覺。嗯,沒看完也不想看瞭。
评分語言和場景當然是濃濃的英倫風,可是總覺得情節介入有些牽強,為瞭把案子寫成纔放進來的感覺。嗯,沒看完也不想看瞭。
评分哦不是麻婆的故事……那還拖瞭這麼長啊……
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!!
评分讀前麵覺得Tommy和Tuppence這對夫婦有點絮叨,結尾大逆轉,並且小驚悚,完全沒猜到。阿婆的語言雖然簡潔明快,但有很多典型英式的智慧又有寓意的吐槽還是很值得玩味的。#路人轉粉
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