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)
What is the connection between a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and the romantic life of a famous tennis player?
To the casual observer, apparently nothing. But when a houseparty gathers at Gull's Point, the seaside home of an elderly widow, earlier events come to a dramatic head.
As superintendent Battle discovers, it is all part of a carefully paid plan - for murder...
'Agatha Christie has surpassed herself.' New York Times
我觉得吧,所有主角非波洛,非马普尔的小说,要么奇异精致,灵气尽显,要么就是读完之后吐出隔夜饭的极品。 这本书的开头光芒四射,情节总体而言也算上乘。 非要挑出个缺点,就是凶手太明显,就差没印在封面上了,尤其要是你读过不少阿加莎其他作品的话。
评分在这本很奇怪,某些方面感觉很勉强。但是找不到恰当的形容词。 我看的时候设想了所有的可能性。每一条似乎都没有不合理性。突然意识到,这是本书,只是在猜测作者的意图,而不是实际的逻辑。阿加莎的书这本是唯一让我有这种感觉的。 ------------------------------------ ...
评分去年读马原的《阅读大师》时就对一个问题感到不解:马原在介绍阿加莎.克里斯蒂的时候举的范例是《走向决定性的时刻》,而不是阿婆最著名的《尼罗河的惨案》和《东方快车的谋杀》,甚至也不是我个人非常喜欢的《无人生还》,那么,《时刻》(也叫《零时》)这本书究竟是什么地方...
评分红蔷薇和白雪花 两个完全不同性格的女人 各自都有让人无法抗拒的魅力 前者在精心设计的缘分中得到虚伪的爱 后者在疯狂的爱的压迫下战战兢兢 她们都拥有自己美好的爱情在身边 红蔷薇选择了放弃 白雪花痛苦的失去 容忍的外表下可能是自私的心 放弃一切的绝望也会有重生...
评分我很偏爱的一本,我心头克里斯蒂小说能排在前三位的一本。 很喜欢它的写法,谋杀在很久前就开始了,所有的事情都在走向那个决定性的时刻...... 虽然它不是波洛的故事,但没有这个重头人物的好处是,其他角色能有更充分的笔墨展现性格。我一直希望看到它被改编为电影,经常瞎...
不道点小爱情呢。结局温馨
评分不道点小爱情呢。结局温馨
评分精彩。 5-12
评分又是一本烧脑的书。一开始就锁定了错误的嫌疑人,最后才发现最不可能的人才是凶手。
评分4.5星。
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