1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. When one of the party dies suddenly they realise they may be harbouring a murderer among their number.
The 10 strangers include a reckless playboy, a troubled Harley Street doctor, a formidable judge, an uncouth detective, an unscrupulous mercenary, a God-fearing spinster, two restless servants, a highly decorated general and an anxious secretary. One by one they are picked off. Who will survive? And who is the killer? Copies of an ominous nursery rhyme hang in each room, the murders mimicking the awful fates of its ‘Ten Little Soldier Boys'.
The clear winner in an international online poll held to discover the world's favourite Agatha Christie book, this new paperback also coincides with a new 3-part BBC TV adaptation featuring a stellar ensemble cast: Douglas Booth, Charles Dance, Maeve Dermody, Burn Gorman, Anna Maxwell Martin, Sam Neill, Miranda Richardson, Toby Stephens, Noah Taylor and Aidan Turner.
克莉斯蒂本名Agatha May Clarissa Miller,一八九○年出生於英國德望郡,家境富裕但傳統守舊,是家中的么女,孩童時期未曾接受學校教育,在家中由女家庭教師教導學會識字和讀書。她生性害羞,不善表達,便透過音樂及文字創作來抒發情感。在母親的鼓勵下,她大量閱讀各類書籍,並開始創作詩和短篇故事。她的想像力豐富,可以為她的洋娃娃編織家世和成長故事,坐火車時更喜以杜撰車廂乘客的一生自娛。
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, 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 countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.
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ISBN:9780008123208
規格:平裝 / 256頁 / 21 x 14.8 x 1.5 cm / 普通級 / 單色印刷 / 初版