A Caribbean Mystery

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:287

出版时间:2002

价格:GBP 5.99

装帧:paperback

isbn号码:9780007120918

丛书系列:Agatha Christie- HarperCollins 2003

图书标签:AgathaChristie英文推理English阿加莎·克里斯蒂悬疑推理侦探阿婆

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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

读后感

大学里读的很多，但都是波洛的探案集，这本是头一回读马普尔小姐的作品，但情节一如既往的紧凑，扣人心弦，最后凶手倒是出人意料，（当然这个是阿加莎的杀手锏了），现在很多作品都是靠对话推动情节，略显无趣，但是阿婆的作品虽然也是对话，但写的就能让人欲罢不能的读下去，...  

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...  

用户评价

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。

可能是阿婆书看多了的关系...这个很早就猜到大概了, 还一直在期待事情不是这样的...总之有点小失望. 作品本身似乎不错, 不过我很难做客观评价.

凶手太明显了吧，只不过旁枝比较多

用空闲时间有一搭没一搭的居然听完了。因为胆子小没看过侦探小说，这个小说一点都不吓人，凶手完全出乎我意料，好棒！

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.