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

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

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...  

我手头上的马普尔小姐系列不多了，所以每本都不舍得立刻打开看。但像久未谋面的老朋友般，总是会想念的。可是想念地久了，只好打开一本，问一句：你好啊，我的马普尔小姐。 书的一开始我就很喜欢，老去的少校絮絮叨叨又大声夸张的讲着他那些老掉牙的故事，他那些别人都听了无...  

很多人说这本书的谜底出乎意料、前面误导太多云云，我倒觉得这个案子出乎意料地好猜，了解阿婆套路或者推理小说看多了的人，在第一个伏笔出现时基本就该能锁定凶手了，明显到我一度以为真凶这条线才是个误导，以至于最后十页还在期待反转，不过可惜没有。 并不是说这本书不好看...  

杀人无非是两条道路，“激情杀人”和“蓄谋已久”。“激情杀人”是在双方陷入白热化争斗之中热血上头的后果，而“蓄谋已久”则是有目的有计划的谋杀。两条道路的结果都是人的死亡，而当有死者出现，自然故事里面就有凶手。侦探的目的就是找出凶手，凶手的目的则是逃出生天。 “...  

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...  

用户评价

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.

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.

Narrated By June Whitfield (drama)

凶手太明显了吧，只不过旁枝比较多

#11 从去大阪的飞机上开始，终于在前往东京的新干线上读完，也是有够慢