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)
As Jane Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine she felt mildly disconnected with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened.
Eventually, her interest was aroused by an old soldier's yarn about a strange coincidence. Infuriatingly, just as he was about to show her an astonishing photograph, the Major's attention wandered. He never did finish the story...
'Liveliness... infectious zest... as good as anything Miss Christie has done.' Observer
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评分我手头上的马普尔小姐系列不多了,所以每本都不舍得立刻打开看。但像久未谋面的老朋友般,总是会想念的。可是想念地久了,只好打开一本,问一句:你好啊,我的马普尔小姐。 书的一开始我就很喜欢,老去的少校絮絮叨叨又大声夸张的讲着他那些老掉牙的故事,他那些别人都听了无...
评分我手头上的马普尔小姐系列不多了,所以每本都不舍得立刻打开看。但像久未谋面的老朋友般,总是会想念的。可是想念地久了,只好打开一本,问一句:你好啊,我的马普尔小姐。 书的一开始我就很喜欢,老去的少校絮絮叨叨又大声夸张的讲着他那些老掉牙的故事,他那些别人都听了无...
评分很多人说这本书的谜底出乎意料、前面误导太多云云,我倒觉得这个案子出乎意料地好猜,了解阿婆套路或者推理小说看多了的人,在第一个伏笔出现时基本就该能锁定凶手了,明显到我一度以为真凶这条线才是个误导,以至于最后十页还在期待反转,不过可惜没有。 并不是说这本书不好看...
评分很多人说这本书的谜底出乎意料、前面误导太多云云,我倒觉得这个案子出乎意料地好猜,了解阿婆套路或者推理小说看多了的人,在第一个伏笔出现时基本就该能锁定凶手了,明显到我一度以为真凶这条线才是个误导,以至于最后十页还在期待反转,不过可惜没有。 并不是说这本书不好看...
I spent many months to read it. Omg. But still it's one of my favourite.
评分2008年看 我都忘了是什么时候看的。只要是Miss Marple的,我就提不起兴趣。留到最后勉强看完,连记都没记一笔... 这个故事好像也是个讨厌老头被杀的什么故事吧,内容都忘了。
评分用空闲时间有一搭没一搭的居然听完了。因为胆子小没看过侦探小说,这个小说一点都不吓人,凶手完全出乎我意料,好棒!
评分3.10- 12| for once she didn't draw any resemblance between the murderer and her formal acquaintances
评分2008年看 我都忘了是什么时候看的。只要是Miss Marple的,我就提不起兴趣。留到最后勉强看完,连记都没记一笔... 这个故事好像也是个讨厌老头被杀的什么故事吧,内容都忘了。
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