Murder and mystery lurk in the hills and on the shores of Devon and Cornwall in this new Special Edition Hardback of Agatha Christie's finest countryside stories.
Growing up in Torquay, Agatha Christie's love of the West Country never left her and many of her finest stories are set on the moors and shores of Devon and Cornwall. This collection celebrates some of her finest countryside stories featuring a cast of Christie's most iconic characters: Hercule Poirot, Miss Jane Marple, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford and Parker Pyne.
Also included in this story, published in its original form over a century after it first appeared in The Sketch magazine, join Poirot and Hastings as they solve a grisly murder in The Adventure of the Dartmoor Bungalow.
Also included in this collection are:
The Plymouth Express
The Unbreakable Alibi
The Case of the Missing Will
Ingots of Gold
Double Sin
The Hound of Death
The Cornish Mystery
The Regatta Mystery
The Flock of Geryon
The Edge
The Bloodstained Pavement
The Adventure of the Dartmoor Bungalow
Rezensionen / Stimmen
'Without a doubt, the greatest mystery writer of all time' - Ragnar Jonasson
'Agatha Christie is the gateway drug to crime fiction both for readers and for writers' - Val McDermid
'She gives us an insight into human nature that few, if any, have surpassed' - Susan Lewis
'Dame Agatha has sold more books than all besides Shakespeare and the Bible' - David Baldacci
'All crime fiction writers around the globe owe Agatha Christie a massive debt' - Peter James
'Reading a perfectly plotted Agatha Christie is like crunching into a perfect apple: that pure, crisp, absolute satisfaction.' - Tana French
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Höhe: 204 mm
Breite: 135 mm
Dicke: 18 mm
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978-0-00-873812-9 (9780008738129)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
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 over 70 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, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.
