Mrs McGinty's Dead

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:[英] 阿加莎·克里斯蒂

页数:335

出版时间:2002

价格:GBP 6.99

装帧:paperback

isbn号码:9780007121007

丛书系列:Agatha Christie- HarperCollins 2003

图书标签:AgathaChristie阿加莎·克里斯蒂推理英国小说英文原版波洛悬疑

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'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

读后感

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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...  

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相当不错！看了那么多波洛，还能有新意，相当赞了！

读的时间拉得太长，丧失了一些兴趣，读起来有些累。 以为是因为女工的财产，实际是女工对旧罪的知情。 以为是试图瞒着大家的嫌犯本人，实际是嫌犯的子嗣为一己之利而犯罪。 误导性的性别导向，最后依然回归了财产的目的。 即便是好人，人人都在隐瞒着暗处。 Mrs.Oliver 赛高！

2009.7.6 读完 oh i've read it i've definitely read it before. but hugh fraser is such a delight! 重读还是觉得故事很精彩。而且看到结局才发现真的读过。忘得一干二净也是种本事。

2009.7.6 读完 oh i've read it i've definitely read it before. but hugh fraser is such a delight! 重读还是觉得故事很精彩。而且看到结局才发现真的读过。忘得一干二净也是种本事。