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)
发表于2024-12-22
A Caribbean Mystery 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
看了电视来看书,基本套路一致,反正每个人都不是坏就是傻。不过这也是马普尔系列一贯的风格了。马普尔的世界太奇异,总有那么多曾经的,现在的罪犯围绕着她的生活。所以一直不是很喜欢这个系列。 这本书自然也有自己的亮点,不要相信别人告诉你的(读者文章?),马普...
评分我很喜欢的一个调调就是在度假或者这类完全和犯罪挨不上边的休闲活动中发现犯罪的蛛丝马迹,最终衍生出真正的罪案。马普尔小姐很多故事都是走这个风格,波洛老爹也有,但少一点。 这一本的大意就是马普尔小姐在加勒比海度假时,一个碎嘴的老退伍军人告诉她自己听说的一个杀人犯...
评分阿加莎德作品一直都很出位`` 最近找到她的全集,打算一部一部慢慢看。这一本是昨天晚上看完的,挺喜欢的。玛波奶奶真可爱,虽然有很多个这个名字的翻译版本,不过,我愿意叫她玛波奶奶!!这次的“侦探”不是行为怪异的私家侦探,而是个和蔼,甚至有些啰嗦的老太太!没有什么么...
评分 评分最近有点空余时间,再次看了阿婆的《加勒比海岛谋杀案》,重温一下马普尔小姐的魅力。 小说还是很有意思的,悬疑设置的不是很深,也能猜到一些答案的,但是里面的人物都非常有趣,我非常喜欢阿婆对人物深刻的刻画,栩栩如生,可以想象到人物的样子,阿婆看来还是个婚姻保卫者,...
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As Jane Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine she felt mildly disconnected with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened.
Eventually, her interest was aroused by an old soldier's yarn about a strange coincidence. Infuriatingly, just as he was about to show her an astonishing photograph, the Major's attention wandered. He never did finish the story...
'Liveliness... infectious zest... as good as anything Miss Christie has done.' Observer
透析第三本 读过Nemesis里面总提到本书里的故人,先读这本。曾经看改编的电视剧却看不下去,Marple的形象已经先入为主了吧,奇怪的是itv为什么不拍这一本,实实在在的马普小姐探案故事呢,反而让她空降到一些原本和她没有半毛钱的关系的故事里。
评分over-chattering有时候是会惹祸上身的!Rafiel老头和Marple的对话场景就像this case's extra humourous element。Anyway, this book is attractive to me.
评分over-chattering有时候是会惹祸上身的!Rafiel老头和Marple的对话场景就像this case's extra humourous element。Anyway, this book is attractive to me.
评分Narrated By June Whitfield (drama)
评分一家叫Golden Palm的热带度假酒店作为谋杀背景很带感,但是坏处是各人都是四面八方来的游客彼此之间没有交集(从结果看也是,Hellington夫妇等四个人之间的感情纠葛与主线谋杀完全没有关系,如果有关系大概就变成东快谋杀案了),其实老头和女仆Victoria被杀也与主线没有关系,所以故事看起来很淡薄,从半册就可以猜出Molly的精神状态是被下了药而有动机干这个的又只有老公Tim而已。唯一有一点点意外的是Tim、Jackson与富翁女秘书之间的感情纠葛和算计,但是也没有大意义。最后的梗在于老头子的假眼可以看向不同方向,也实在太弱了。真正有趣的点是人在旅途你所知道的对方,都是对方告诉你的信息,你并无法确认他们在伦敦果真有豪宅和一双儿女,如此,每个人的身份和故事都可能是假的。
A Caribbean Mystery 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书