Murder, stolen plans, a mysterious death and a menage a trois – four intriguing novellas featuring Hercule Poirot…
How did a woman holding a pistol in her right hand manage to shoot herself in the left temple? What was the link between a ghost sighting and the disappearance of top secert military plans? How did the bullet that killed Sir Gervase shatter a mirror in another part of the room? And who destroyed the ‘eternal triangle' of love involving renowned beauty, Valentine Chantry?
Hercule Poirot is faced with four mystifying cases – Murder in the Mews, The Incredible Theft, Dead Man's Mirror and Triangle at Rhodes – each a miniature classic of characterisation, incident and suspense.
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.
詳細資料
ISBN:9780008164928
規格:平裝 / 320頁 / 21 x 14.8 x 1.5 cm / 普通級 / 單色印刷 / 初版