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)
In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a small table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: 'Captain Trevelyan... dead... murder.'
Is this black magic or simply a macabre joke? The only way to be certain is to locate Captain Trevelyan. Unfortunately, his home is six miles away and, with snow drifts blocking the roads, someone will have to make the journey on foot...
'An excellent book to take away for a weekend reading.' New York Times
'You can't go wrong with this one, certainly the best of the always high-grade Christie items in quite some time.' Books
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評分任何作傢的作品都會良莠不齊。這句話也適用於Agatha。這本書《The Sittaford Mystery》就是這句話的最佳印證。 Agatha的場景描述的巔峰水平毋庸置疑,在此書也得到印證。用轉桌遊戲來鋪墊神秘色彩以及凶手的不在場證明,這種手法的確高明。 可是,破案的關鍵卻實在是弱爆瞭。...
評分任何作傢的作品都會良莠不齊。這句話也適用於Agatha。這本書《The Sittaford Mystery》就是這句話的最佳印證。 Agatha的場景描述的巔峰水平毋庸置疑,在此書也得到印證。用轉桌遊戲來鋪墊神秘色彩以及凶手的不在場證明,這種手法的確高明。 可是,破案的關鍵卻實在是弱爆瞭。...
圖書標籤: 推理 AgathaChristie 阿加莎·剋裏斯蒂 懸疑 英國 偵探 阿婆 英文版
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The Sittaford Mystery 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載