Murder on the Orient Express

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Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.

Agatha Christie is the best-selling author of all time. She wrote eighty crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and several other books. Her books have sold roughly four billion copies and have been translated into 45 languages. She is the creator of the two most enduring figures in crime literature-Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple-and author of The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theatre.

Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K., as the youngest of three. The Millers had two other children: Margaret Frary Miller (1879–1950), called Madge, who was eleven years Agatha's senior, and Louis Montant Miller (1880–1929), called Monty, ten years older than Agatha.

During the First World War, she worked at a hospital as a nurse; later working at a hospital pharmacy, a job that influenced her work, as many of the murders in her books are carried out with poison.

On Christmas Eve 1914 Agatha married Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. The couple had one daughter, Rosalind Hicks. They divorced in 1928, two years after Christie discovered her husband was having an affair.

Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, came out in 1920. During this marriage, Agatha published six novels, a collection of short stories, and a number of short stories in magazines.

In late 1926, Agatha's husband, Archie, revealed that he was in love with another woman, Nancy Neele, and wanted a divorce. On 8 December 1926 the couple quarreled, and Archie Christie left their house Styles in Sunningdale, Berkshire, to spend the weekend with his mistress at Godalming, Surrey. That same evening Agatha disappeared from her home, leaving behind a letter for her secretary saying that she was going to Yorkshire. Her disappearance caused an outcry from the public, many of whom were admirers of her novels. Despite a massive manhunt, she was not found for eleven days.

In 1930, Christie married archaeologist Max Mallowan (Sir Max from 1968) after joining him in an archaeological dig. Their marriage was especially happy in the early years and remained so until Christie's death in 1976. In 1977, Mallowan married his longtime associate, Barbara Parker.

Christie frequently used familiar settings for her stories. Christie's travels with Mallowan contributed background to several of her novels set in the Middle East. Other novels (such as And Then There Were None) were set in and around Torquay, where she was born. Christie's 1934 novel Murder on the Orient Express was written in the Hotel Pera Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, the southern terminus of the railway. The hotel maintains Christie's room as a memorial to the author. The Greenway Estate in Devon, acquired by the couple as a summer residence in 1938, is now in the care of the National Trust.

Christie often stayed at Abney Hall in Cheshire, which was owned by her brother-in-law, James Watts. She based at least two of her stories on the hall: the short story The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, which is in the story collection of the same name, and the novel After the Funeral. "Abney became Agatha's greatest inspiration for country-house life, with all the servants and grandeur which have been woven into her plots.

During the Second World War, Christie worked in the pharmacy at University College Hospital of University College, London, where she acquired a knowledge of poisons that she put to good use in her post-war crime novels.

To honour her many literary works, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1956 New Year Honours. The next year, she became the President of the Detection Club. In the 1971 New Year Honours she was promoted Dame Commande

出版者:HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
作者:[英] 阿加莎·克里斯蒂
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页数:240
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出版时间:2001-6-1
价格:UK 6.99
装帧:Paperback
isbn号码:9780007119318
丛书系列:Agatha Christie- HarperCollins 2003
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Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer.

Isolated by the storm and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer amongst a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again...

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我本来是不甚喜欢看阿加莎的小说的. 一来是因为翻译翻得不大好,二来是手法跟日本侦探小说很不一样.. 之前看过阿加莎的几本小说,无奈忘记名字了,只记得读起来非常不吸引人,行文不流畅(主要是译者的问题),还有情节的向前推进缺乏必然性.那时候边看边想:果然是老一辈侦探作...  

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我读过的侦探小说中,我最喜欢的是阿加莎的。而其中又以《尼罗河上的惨案》和《东方快车谋杀案》为最爱。只所以喜欢阿加莎的作品,是因为它可以带给我读其它侦探小说而无法得到的愉悦。其它的侦探小说大都有一个套路,一件惨案发生了,侦探到现场做一些无人能懂的勘查,接...  

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我得承认我对于阿婆的波洛系列是没有什么“抵抗力”的,尤其是像本书这样的经典之作,虽然我已经读过贵州和人文两个版本的《东方快车谋杀案》,但是看到新星版的时候,还是要找来又读了一遍。不过我没有考据癖,更没有过目不忘的本领,所以无法说出这三个版本的异同,不过无论...  

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disappointed.

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The plot is well designed and out of the ordinary. Though I'm relieved that a guy as smart as Poirot is fictious, the fact that there was a woman as smart as Christie on the earth really stuns me.

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So lucky that my English professor is also a fan of Agatha Christie! I'm doing this for my final paper. This is the first Agatha book I read and it means a lot to me.

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disappointed.

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比起命案目睹记,这本好上十倍。这是我看的第一本关于POIROT的书,很好得开了个头。看的时候还在猜想到底谁会是凶手?可是,结局很出乎意料,可是想想又是在情理之中。AC实在厉害,不过下次问津她的书会是在何年何月呢。好看以及想看的书本实在多得数不清,可惜人的眼睛只有一双,脑袋只有一个,一天也只会有24个小时。五星之,有空找找电影看看。

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