Marking exactly 100 years since the publication of Agatha Christie's first novel,this new edition includes a previously deleted chapter and a newly discovered essay,'Drugs and Detective Stories',in which Agatha Christie reminisces about the inspiration for Poirot's first case.
'Beware! Peril to the detective who says: "It is so small - it does not matter..."Everything matters.'
After the Great War,life can never be the same again. Wounds need healing,and the horror of violent death banished into memory.
Captain Arthur Hastings is invited to the rolling country estate of Styles to recuperate from injuries sustained at the Front. It is the last place he expects to encounter murder. Fortunately he knows a former detective,a Belgian refugee,who has grown bored of retirement...
'Agatha Christie is the gateway drug to crime fiction thanks to her storytelling skills. Just one book is never enough...'VAL McDERMID
'What a writer. A hundred years after her first novel,and we are all still standing in her shadow.'ANDREW TAYLOR
'Agatha Christie must surely be the most imitated author in the entire canon of literature - what greater acclaim could there be'PETER JAMES
Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersISBN: 9780008400637Number of pages: 320Weight: 220 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 20 mm
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'Almost too ingenious...very clearly and brightly told.'Times Literary Supplement
'Very well contrived.'Sunday Times
'Altogether a skilful tale and a talented first book.'Daily News
'The most ingenious and absorbingly interesting tale of sensations and mystery we have read for a long time.'Bookman
'Well written,well proportioned,and full of surprises. Lovers of good stories will,without exception,rejoice in this book.'The British Weekly
Agatha Christie
The reigning queen of crime,Agatha Christie's life took her from her home in the Devon countryside to Cairo,Australia and,of course,a journey on the Orient Express. She created two of the most famous detectives in literature,the moustached Belgian super-sleuth Hercule Poirot and the deceptively genteel village investigator Miss Marple,as well as creating the longest running stage playThe Mousetrap.
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