So goes the old children's game - sadly, things didn't end so happily for the real Mrs McGinty. She was killed by a crushing blow to the back of the head. Then the killer tore up the floorboards in search of ... what?
Could the answer lie in an article the deceased clipped from a newspaper two days before...
So goes the old children's game - sadly, things didn't end so happily for the real Mrs McGinty. She was killed by a crushing blow to the back of the head. Then the killer tore up the floorboards in search of ... what?
Could the answer lie in an article the deceased clipped from a newspaper two days before her death? With a desperate killer still free, Hercule Poirot will have to stay alive long enough to find out...
'So simple, so economical, so completely baffling. Each clue scrupulously given with superb sleight of hand!'
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 writ...
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)
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1 有用 潋影 2013-09-12 19:26:36
Nice Christie story ! Not the best one, but quite readable
0 有用 梅文女王殿下 2009-10-17 05:43:28
2009.7.6 读完 oh i've read it i've definitely read it before. but hugh fraser is such a delight! 重读还是觉得故事很精彩。而且看到结局才发现真的读过。忘得一干二净也是种本事。
0 有用 在西瓜糖里🌀 2016-03-14 04:07:23
国外二手书摊花1块5买的，虽然不如其他作品有名，还是被环环相扣的情节吸引，忍不住往下看，喜欢阿加莎多于柯南道尔！
0 有用 小林竹道 2022-08-10 08:31:38
2022.8.5-8.10 264min
1 有用 risatomato 2011-04-13 23:15:39
每个人都有不想为人所知的秘密。