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)
'By the pricking of my thumbs
Something wicked this way comes.'
MACBETH
When Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they think nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all Ada is a very difficult old lady.
But when Mrs Lockett mentions a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs Lancaster talks about 'something behind the fireplace', Tommy and Tuppence find themselves caught up in an unexpected adventure involving a strange inheritance, a mysterious house, black magic, a missing tombstone - and almost death for the redoutable Tuppence...
'The most macabre and eerie Christie I have read for a long time.' Sunday Express
'Mystery at the usual high Christie level.' Evening Standard
人文的这套里,这本是汤米杜本丝夫妇最后一次出场了,《命运之门》似乎是发生在后来,但不知为啥没有收录。 这一本里,汤米和杜本丝貌似比《密码》里年纪更大了。结尾处杜本丝在危机时刻突然惊惶地意识到:可是我也老了……我没有信心打败她…… 看到这里有点伤感。 但是也...
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評分比较喜欢的一本书,虽然书封如此阴森,其中确不乏温情。 自己也时常有女主那处寻微探幽的念头,也对曾经的某处空间留有一生无法释怀的某种情结。 夫妇间平实真切的关心和温情,烤鸡的小伙子可笑的智慧,最终的真相残忍也令人动容。 算是一本好书。
評分人文的这套里,这本是汤米杜本丝夫妇最后一次出场了,《命运之门》似乎是发生在后来,但不知为啥没有收录。 这一本里,汤米和杜本丝貌似比《密码》里年纪更大了。结尾处杜本丝在危机时刻突然惊惶地意识到:可是我也老了……我没有信心打败她…… 看到这里有点伤感。 但是也...
//2013.10.08
评分#謝謝D,生日禮物。這版俺自己都捨不得買啊~
评分阿婆的這個係列總是無愛!阿婆但是一定很喜歡這對,所以總是極盡詳細的描寫!邏輯和方法對於偵探是多麼重要! tuppence is such a stupid woman!
评分嗯,以後彆人再玩“先入為主”,都要想想阿婆已經玩成這樣瞭,輕巧有效,一擊即中。還有特彆漂亮的閑來一筆:在喬西爵士的記憶中,年輕時的艾達美得仿佛畫中仙子,他們有過花前月下的時光,但是最終分開瞭,並且沒有再見過麵。“過瞭幾年,我聽一個傢夥說她是他看過的最醜的女人,真是不敢相信。不過我現在覺得後來沒見過她也許是件值得慶幸的事。”(第一篇書評提瞭這筆八卦)
评分阿婆的這個係列總是無愛!阿婆但是一定很喜歡這對,所以總是極盡詳細的描寫!邏輯和方法對於偵探是多麼重要! tuppence is such a stupid woman!
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