Towards Zero

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:301

出版时间:2002

价格:GBP 6.99

装帧:paperback

isbn号码:9780007136803

丛书系列:Agatha Christie- HarperCollins 2003

图书标签:AgathaChristie阿加莎·克里斯蒂推理侦探悬疑Agatha_Christie英文小说

What is the connection between a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and the romantic life of a famous tennis player?

To the casual observer, apparently nothing. But when a houseparty gathers at Gull's Point, the seaside home of an elderly widow, earlier events come to a dramatic head.

As superintendent Battle discovers, it is all part of a carefully paid plan - for murder...

'Agatha Christie has surpassed herself.' New York Times

读后感

我觉得吧，所有主角非波洛，非马普尔的小说，要么奇异精致，灵气尽显，要么就是读完之后吐出隔夜饭的极品。 这本书的开头光芒四射，情节总体而言也算上乘。 非要挑出个缺点，就是凶手太明显，就差没印在封面上了，尤其要是你读过不少阿加莎其他作品的话。  

小说前三章都是叙述一个爱情幸运儿奈维尔的家庭故事。秀美修养好的前妻奥德莉和热情直率的妻子凯伊都来到海边亲戚家中度假。他作为一名绅士不得不顾及爱护她们两个人的情绪的苦恼。但是这个大家庭主人仆人客人都感觉到恐惧、奇怪的不愉快时光。小说描述日常生活中，读者都可以...  

去年读马原的《阅读大师》时就对一个问题感到不解：马原在介绍阿加莎．克里斯蒂的时候举的范例是《走向决定性的时刻》,而不是阿婆最著名的《尼罗河的惨案》和《东方快车的谋杀》，甚至也不是我个人非常喜欢的《无人生还》，那么，《时刻》（也叫《零时》）这本书究竟是什么地方...  

在这本很奇怪，某些方面感觉很勉强。但是找不到恰当的形容词。 我看的时候设想了所有的可能性。每一条似乎都没有不合理性。突然意识到，这是本书，只是在猜测作者的意图，而不是实际的逻辑。阿加莎的书这本是唯一让我有这种感觉的。 ------------------------------------ ...  

用户评价

还是翻译成零时要好听点~

4.5星。

去北京的高铁上读到结局，精彩的故事。读过的第三本英文小说，第一本阿加莎。

读阿婆的小说思路应该是谁和谁是一对 然后那个碍眼的家伙就是凶手

精彩。 5-12