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
远被低估。 “零点”这个概念在阿婆之前的作品早有体现,在这本书中更是发挥到了极致,这是由一个阿婆写了不下十次的三角关系发展成的精彩故事。有人说这本只有布局有点看头,我完全不同意。看阿婆的书真正乐趣并不是靠推理或臆测得到答案,而是读者不断推断、怀疑的过程,你会...
評分 評分话中有话的退休法官死于可以避免的心脏病发作,久病的老夫人被一根高尔夫球杆击中头部身亡。未遂的自杀者,遗产的分割与手头的拮据,著名网球选手的罗曼史,离婚的谎言与真相,冷酷的复仇,……案件本身是简单的,但我欣赏它冗长而奇特的铺垫,一丝不苟的细节,精心设计的台词...
評分话中有话的退休法官死于可以避免的心脏病发作,久病的老夫人被一根高尔夫球杆击中头部身亡。未遂的自杀者,遗产的分割与手头的拮据,著名网球选手的罗曼史,离婚的谎言与真相,冷酷的复仇,……案件本身是简单的,但我欣赏它冗长而奇特的铺垫,一丝不苟的细节,精心设计的台词...
評分红蔷薇和白雪花 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...
Had so much potentials up till hour zero. Must you turn it into a romatic melodrama?
评分原本以為一般般 沒想到結局這麼棒!! 我的天哪 完全齣乎意料 真的好棒 某種程度上可以帶來和無人生還一樣的衝擊感瞭!!雖然有一些橋段 情節 故事設定 略顯老套 可是結尾大反轉的簡直牛逼啊!
评分Love is easy to be turned to hatred. 後麵證據部分有點牽強。場景畫麵感還可以。人不能總是那麼光鮮,總有點黑暗點。
评分2007.4.4 既是她本人,也是讀者們都推崇的top10之一。說真的,實在是個簡單不過的案件,有個彆地方卻聽得我毛骨悚然。大概很久沒聽Agatha的書,腦子完全變笨。在我快反應齣來凶手是誰的時候,書已經快結束瞭。我喜歡這本書的idea, 心理暗示有的時候真的會冤枉好人。
评分這篇略有點驚心動魄啊,氛圍和人物塑造的極好,電影感非常強。劇情推理上有點弱,沒有波洛的話就沒有那些匪夷所思的推理和發現瞭,Battle強於行動而略弱於推理,更多的是一個精明的警探。還有,阿加莎似乎很喜歡Vanity Fair的模式啊,Dobbin似的角色已經齣現瞭好幾次瞭。罪犯又讓人想起來三幕悲劇裏的角色。還有,最後不變的是阿加莎對新時代與舊時代的敏感,年輕與老年的對比,貫穿整本書。
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