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)
From Seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp.
What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman...
'It will be a very acute reader who does not receive a complete surprise at the end.'
--Times Literary Supplement
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這本書其實是我十一月讀的書,因為最近考試實在是太密集瞭,沒有時間完整地看一些新書,所以還是決定把這本書拿齣來寫一寫。知道這本書,是因為我的文學理論老師在講偵探小說的時候講到瞭這本書和《尼羅河上的慘案》,而我又是一個阿加莎·剋裏斯蒂的小迷妹,所以決定買來讀一...
評分《雲中命案》再一次驗證瞭波洛“任何人都不可相信”的理論。犯案的手法上,很是巧妙,故弄玄虛擺下迷魂陣,結果卻是如此啊…… 假如這起密閉空間裏的謀殺案是自殺和他殺相結閤的話,會怎麼樣呢? 凶手在一個咖啡杯裏放上第二個咖啡勺,這點很是失策。 65頁上“蘇格蘭莊園”...
評分作者阿加莎·剋裏斯蒂被譽為偵探推理小說女王,此書是我閱讀阿加莎·剋裏斯蒂的第一部作品,看完之後覺得作者不負盛名。 放債人吉賽爾夫人即瑪麗·莫裏索死於航行的飛機上,凶手隻能是後艙裏十一名乘客和兩名乘務員當中,死因可能是箭毒,凶器可能是吹風管之類的。 我猜過...
評分《雲中命案》再一次驗證瞭波洛“任何人都不可相信”的理論。犯案的手法上,很是巧妙,故弄玄虛擺下迷魂陣,結果卻是如此啊…… 假如這起密閉空間裏的謀殺案是自殺和他殺相結閤的話,會怎麼樣呢? 凶手在一個咖啡杯裏放上第二個咖啡勺,這點很是失策。 65頁上“蘇格蘭莊園”...
評分為什麼這本書讓我想到瞭柯南呢。同樣是密室殺人,同樣是偵探在現場,就是嫌疑人多瞭一些不止是三個瞭。 篇幅很短,很快就能看完。善良、聰明、堅強的女孩在經曆苦難的事後,總能獲得一個美好的結局。傻乎乎又軟弱的妹子不是被騙就是被殺。這個故事裏更慘,先是被騙然後...
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評分2008.7.10 這本書其實還不錯,把我糊弄到瞭。迴想起來,整個故事不過還是阿加莎那兩把老刷子罷瞭,但是因為我有很久不看她的書,這些tricks在我眼中又變得新鮮且迷惑。
評分5%的時候就死人和death on the nile慢吞吞地掛形成鮮明對比,然而後麵的推理就不太行瞭
評分2020.14 剛開始閱讀就基本猜到瞭凶手。幾本下來也算是理解作者的寫作習慣瞭。閱讀還是比較簡單的,作案手法意想不到。隻是覺得差瞭點什麼
評分阿婆又成功把我繞進去瞭,波洛的媒婆屬性也還是沒變
Death in the Clouds 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載