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Authors: Agatha Christie
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And then suddenly he rallied.
‘But I see things,’ he cried. ‘I may have been only a looker-on at Life–but I see things that other people do not. You said so yourself, Mr Quin…’
But Mr Quin had vanished.
Agatha Christie
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Ten…
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Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious ‘U.N.Owen’.
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Nine…
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At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by the end of the night one of the guests is dead.
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Eight…
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Stranded by a violent storm, and haunted by an ancient nursery rhyme counting down one by one…as one by one…they begin to die.
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Seven
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Which amongst them is the killer and will any of them survive?
‘One of the very best, most genuinely bewildering Christies.’
Observer
‘Agatha Christie’s masterpiece.’
Spectator
ISBN-13 978-0-00-713683-4
Agatha Christie
Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night
When penniless Michael Rogers discovered the beautiful house at Gypsy’s Acre and then meets the heiress Ellie, it seems that all his dreams have come true at once. But he ignores an old woman warning of an ancient curse, and evil begins to stir in paradise.
As Michael soon learns: Gypsy’s Acre is the place where fatal ‘accidents’ happen…
‘One of the best things Agatha Christie has ever done.’
Sunday Times
ISBN-13 978-0-00-715167-7
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 countries. 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 Mysterious Affair at 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 collections
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.
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The Mysterious Mr Quin
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The Hound of Death
The Listerdale Mystery
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?
Parker Pyne Investigates
Murder Is Easy
And Then There Were None
Towards Zero
Death Comes as the End
Sparkling Cyanide
Crooked House
They Came to Baghdad
Destination Unknown
Spider’s Web
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The Unexpected Guest
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Ordeal by Innocence
The Pale Horse
Endless Night
Passenger To Frankfurt
Problem at Pollensa Bay
While the Light Lasts
Poirot
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Murder on the Links
Poirot Investigates
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Big Four
The Mystery of the Blue Train
Black Coffee
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Peril at End House
Lord Edgware Dies
Murder on the Orient Express
Three-Act Tragedy
Death in the Clouds
The ABC Murders
Murder in Mesopotamia
Cards on the Table
Murder in the Mews
Dumb Witness
Death on the Nile
Appointment With Death
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
Sad Cypress
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Evil Under the Sun
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The Hollow
The Labours of Hercules
Taken at the Flood
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Hickory Dickory Dock
Dead Man’s Folly
Cat Among the Pigeons
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Third Girl
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Poirot’s Early Cases
Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case
Marple
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The Thirteen Problems
The Body in the Library
The Moving Finger
A Murder is Announced
They Do It With Mirrors
A Pocket Full of Rye
The 4.50 from Paddington
The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side
A Caribbean Mystery
At Bertram’s Hotel
Nemesis
Sleeping Murder
Miss Marple’s Final Cases
Tommy & Tuppence
The Secret Adversary
Partners in Crime
N or M?
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Postern of Fate
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Giant’s Bread
Unfinished Portrait
Absent in the Spring
The Rose and the Yew Tree
A Daughter’s a Daughter
The Burden
Memoirs
An Autobiography
Come, Tell Me How You Live
Play Collections
The Mousetrap and Selected Plays
Witness for the Prosecution and Selected Plays
THE MYSTERIOUS MR. QUIN
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novelised by Charles Osborne
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novelised by Charles Osborne
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novelised by Charles Osborne