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·剋裏斯蒂
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頁數:240
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出版時間:2001-6-1
價格:UK 6.99
裝幀:Paperback
isbn號碼:9780007119318
叢書系列: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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今日搭乘火车回家,带上此书消磨时间。候车一小时,火车上一小时。列车靠站时,读到了217页。 我猜我没有看推理小说的天分。我不擅长记下种种细节,暗语,也无热情和兴趣从中推理,甚至常常,连人物的名字都会混淆。或许是习惯了柯南的简短和相对的“明了”,这样的进展于我来...

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推理奶奶好棒> <

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為什麼這本書裏全是外國人……聽得煩死瞭……

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看的直讓人癡迷不已,結局完全沒猜到,故事推進的精彩無比!還推薦她的另一本遊記《告訴我怎樣去生活》。

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比起命案目睹記,這本好上十倍。這是我看的第一本關於POIROT的書,很好得開瞭個頭。看的時候還在猜想到底誰會是凶手?可是,結局很齣乎意料,可是想想又是在情理之中。AC實在厲害,不過下次問津她的書會是在何年何月呢。好看以及想看的書本實在多得數不清,可惜人的眼睛隻有一雙,腦袋隻有一個,一天也隻會有24個小時。五星之,有空找找電影看看。

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BL 6.2,AR 9,Word Count 58154;久仰大名,本來想先從愛倫坡的經典五篇偵探小說入門,但奈何詞匯難度太大,就先從這本入門瞭;隻讀瞭一半就覺得人物關係太復雜,畢竟齣場人數多達十個,分不清車廂位置,就跑去看電影,劇本也不是特彆精彩,事到如今也讀不下去瞭,曆史意義大於娛樂意義;我發現推理小說可能比科幻小說奇幻小說好讀點,畢竟往往以對話驅動。

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