'Mrs McGinty's dead!'
'How did she die?'
'Down on one knee, just like I!'
So goes the old children's game - sadly, things didn't end so happily for the real Mrs McGinty. She was killed by a crushing blow to the back of the head. Then the killer tore up the floorboards in search of ... what?
Could the answer lie in an article the deceased clipped from a newspaper two days before her death? With a desperate killer still free, Hercule Poirot will have to stay alive long enough to find out...
'So simple, so economical, so completely baffling. Each clue scrupulously given with superb sleight of hand!'
--Sunday Times
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)
波洛老爹表示,“非常好的人”,那就是一个杀人动机啊。 深以为然。 我曾经有过偷偷做出不太地道的事的经历,那时提心吊胆,想的就是,如果被朋友知道我曾经做过这种事,我宁可让他死掉……自PIA,但我真的有这种想法= = 当然,这只是这个故事的第一重解读而已,后来发掘出...
评分这本没有看过 不过应该都不错 翻译应该不难 第一本阿加沙的书是在初中的时候看的《哑证人》,当时居然看的不敢睡觉。后来上大学去图书馆把她大部分的书都看完了。 每次借很多书,有关专业的从来没有看完过,但是她的书从来没有不看完过。 有点怀念大学时光了。
评分 评分死者:清洁女工、老太婆 动机:钱,秘密。 手法:小镰刀、绞杀。 误导:凶手性别误导 关键词:老照片,收养,一张照片引出的陈年旧事,为了隐藏身世秘密。 啊呀呀乐于助人星期一休息我是有钱人依然是朋友求赞求赞求赞认识新朋友五一医学教育网新民口哦咯啥子哦龙体育用品自在人...
评分这个剧作家的生母和这个养他的富婆有什么关系吗?为什么说这个剧作家让他的“母亲”也就是富婆知道他的身世后会赶他出家门呢?还有就是谁推波罗倒地差点被火车碾死的?那个克雷格为啥隐姓埋名呢? 我不懂我不懂我不懂 求解答求解答求解答求解答求解答求解答求解答求解答求解答...
cosy familiarity yet don't believe i can find myself enjoying any other book of similar story or writing style by a different writer that is first love
评分可怜的波洛。
评分【2.18】上传了Masterpiece edition 的封面,但ms显示不能…… 【2.24】笔记画的乱七八糟,待补~ 整个PLOT就是一道典型的GAME题~
评分国外二手书摊花1块5买的,虽然不如其他作品有名,还是被环环相扣的情节吸引,忍不住往下看,喜欢阿加莎多于柯南道尔!
评分看了半年的我终于看完了…拖了太久根本分不出人了。什么时候才能养成看英文小说的习惯呀难过。
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