Crooked House - Hardcover

Christie, Agatha

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0007354711 ISBN 13: 9780007354719

Publisher: Agatha Christie Limited and Collins, 2010

Synopsis

The Leonides were one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That was until the head of the household, Aristide, was murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection.Suspicion naturally falls on the old man's young widow, fifty years his junior. But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward, fiance of the late millionare's granddaughter ...

About this title

About the Author:

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the bestselling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of World War I, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign languages. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.

Review:

`Writing Crooked House was pure pleasure and I feel justified in my belief that it is one of my best.' Agatha Christie `Her sleight of hand is impeccable.' New Statesman `Knock-out!' Saturday Review of Literature

About this edition

• Publisher: Agatha Christie Limited and Collins
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0007354711
• ISBN 13: 9780007354719
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192