The most beloved characters by the most popular crime writer of all timetogether in her largest compendium of stories everAgatha Christie is the worlds most popular writer in modern times and her books have only been outsold by the Bible and Shakespeare. Best remembered for such classic crime novels as Murder on the Orient Express, And Then There Were None, and Death on the Nile, her works have been cherished by generations of readers. Christie, however, was also a master of the shorter crime story and this volume collects some of her finest short pieces. Each of these thirty-nine stories features one of Christies famous detectivesMiss Marple, Hercule Poirot, Parker Pyne, and Harley Quinin some of their most baffling and intriguing cases, as these ingenious Christie tales show how satisfying and compelling the crime short story can be.
About the Author
Agatha Christie's career spanned more than fifty years and included eighty books as well as fourteen plays. Declared the "champion deceiver of our time" (_New York Times_), she is best known in the U.S. for her classic novel And Then There Were None as well as her novels featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Her work has been the subject of numerous films and TV dramas over the past seventy-five years. She died in 1976.
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The most beloved characters by the most popular crime writer of all timetogether in her largest compendium of stories everAgatha Christie is the worlds most popular writer in modern times and her books have only been outsold by the Bible and Shakespeare. Best remembered for such classic crime novels as Murder on the Orient Express, And Then There Were None, and Death on the Nile, her works have been cherished by generations of readers. Christie, however, was also a master of the shorter crime story and this volume collects some of her finest short pieces. Each of these thirty-nine stories features one of Christies famous detectivesMiss Marple, Hercule Poirot, Parker Pyne, and Harley Quinin some of their most baffling and intriguing cases, as these ingenious Christie tales show how satisfying and compelling the crime short story can be.
About the Author
Agatha Christie's career spanned more than fifty years and included eighty books as well as fourteen plays. Declared the "champion deceiver of our time" (_New York Times_), she is best known in the U.S. for her classic novel And Then There Were None as well as her novels featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Her work has been the subject of numerous films and TV dramas over the past seventy-five years. She died in 1976.