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)
In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a small table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: 'Captain Trevelyan... dead... murder.'
Is this black magic or simply a macabre joke? The only way to be certain is to locate Captain Trevelyan. Unfortunately, his home is six miles away and, with snow drifts blocking the roads, someone will have to make the journey on foot...
'An excellent book to take away for a weekend reading.' New York Times
'You can't go wrong with this one, certainly the best of the always high-grade Christie items in quite some time.' Books
我觉得克里斯蒂很像简-奥斯汀,没完没了的分析人物内心,而且会让读者感觉作者站在每一个人物的立场上分析。但是一直就不喜欢奥斯汀的罗嗦。 小说写的中规中矩,应该是经过了很长时间的策划、激情少于技巧的一部小说。无论是细节的安排,还是人物思考历程的清晰再现,都非常到...
評分任何作家的作品都会良莠不齐。这句话也适用于Agatha。这本书《The Sittaford Mystery》就是这句话的最佳印证。 Agatha的场景描述的巅峰水平毋庸置疑,在此书也得到印证。用转桌游戏来铺垫神秘色彩以及凶手的不在场证明,这种手法的确高明。 可是,破案的关键却实在是弱爆了。...
評分我觉得克里斯蒂很像简-奥斯汀,没完没了的分析人物内心,而且会让读者感觉作者站在每一个人物的立场上分析。但是一直就不喜欢奥斯汀的罗嗦。 小说写的中规中矩,应该是经过了很长时间的策划、激情少于技巧的一部小说。无论是细节的安排,还是人物思考历程的清晰再现,都非常到...
評分我看完以后只对两处印象最深——开头很吸引人:一群身份不同,心怀鬼胎的人在大雪围困的老宅中玩通灵游戏,应该就是后来风靡日韩的“笔仙”游戏前身。原以为是封建迷信,可结果竟然真实地预言了杀人事件的发生,实在太诡异了!看到这里我相信大多数人都是很希望一口气读下去的...
評分任何作家的作品都会良莠不齐。这句话也适用于Agatha。这本书《The Sittaford Mystery》就是这句话的最佳印证。 Agatha的场景描述的巅峰水平毋庸置疑,在此书也得到印证。用转桌游戏来铺垫神秘色彩以及凶手的不在场证明,这种手法的确高明。 可是,破案的关键却实在是弱爆了。...
人物走馬觀花般的登場每一個都塑造地非常飽滿,穿插著招魂會、越獄這樣的背景,就連暴風雪和迷霧這樣的天氣情況也做足瞭戲, 非常非常像另一部疑案(為避免劇透此處不現實書名)一打開就忍不住要一口氣讀到最後一頁。最後問大傢一道數學題:B先生從Sittaford步行去Exhampton看望朋友,兩地相距19.32公裏,B先生從下午5:25齣發於8:00抵達,請問他的朋友去世瞭嗎?????
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评分2009.6.2讀完 殺人凶手也太好猜瞭... 居然能給繞這麼大一個圈子... 結局部分好感人。他沒有我能活,所以我要選擇一個沒有我不能活的..
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