Partners In Crime

Details Book:
Author by Agatha Christie
Genre : Fiction
Editor : William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN : 0062074369
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 0
Download Book

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are restless for adventure, so when they are asked to take over Blunt's International Detective Agency, they leap at the chance. Their first case is a success—the triumphant recovery of a pink pearl. Other cases soon follow—a stabbing on Sunningdale golf course; cryptic messages in the personal columns of newspapers; and even a box of poisoned chocolates. But can they live up to their slogan of "Any case solved in 24 hours"?


Partners In Crime Tommy Tuppence Book 2

Details Book:
Author by Agatha Christie
Genre : Fiction
Editor : HarperCollins UK
ISBN : 9780007422678
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 352
Download Book

Agatha Christie’s complete Tommy and Tuppence short story collection, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.


The Mysterious Affair At Styles By Agatha Christie

Details Book:
Author by Agatha Christie
Genre : Fiction
Editor : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN :
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 283
Download Book

♥♥The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie♥♥ Agatha Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was the result of a dare from her sister Madge who challenged her to write a story. The story begins when Hastings is sent back to England from the First World War due to injury and is invited to spend his sick leave at the beautiful Styles Court by his old friend John Cavendish. Here, Hastings meets John’s stepmother, Mrs. Inglethorp, and her new husband, Alfred. Despite the tranquil surroundings Hastings begins to realize that all is not right. When Mrs. Inglethorp is found poisoned, suspicion falls on the family, and another old friend, Hercule Poirot, is invited to investigate. ♥♥The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie♥♥ Agatha Christie’s first-ever murder mystery. With impeccable timing, Hercule Poirot, the renowned Belgian detective, makes his dramatic entrance onto the English crime stage. ♥♥The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie♥♥ Recently, there had been some strange goings-on at Styles St Mary. Evelyn, the constant companion to old Mrs. Inglethorp, had stormed out of the house muttering something about ‘a lot of sharks’. And with her, something indefinable had gone from the atmosphere. Her presence had spelt security; now the air seemed rife with suspicion and impending evil. ♥♥The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie♥♥ A shattered coffee cup, a splash of candle grease, a bed of begonias... all Poirot required to display his now legendary powers of detection. ♥♥The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie♥♥


The Secret Adversary

Details Book:
Author by Agatha Christie
Genre :
Editor :
ISBN : 1691471313
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 308
Download Book

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are the protagonists of a series of novels and short stories by Agatha Christie, and mark the few ventures that Christie made into espionage tales rather than the whodunits she's known for. 'The Secret Adversary' introduces Tommy and Tuppence who feature in three other Christie novels and one collection of short stories; the five Tommy and Tuppence books span Agatha Christie's writing career.Thomas Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley started out as friends in post-World War I Britain. Jobless and penniless, they place an ad in the paper marketing themselves as adventurers, leading to an encounter that starts their career as spies for an unnamed British intelligence agency.Interestingly, the dedications of two Tommy and Tuppence books ('The Secret Adversary' and 'By the Pricking of My Thumbs') are the only times Christie ever dedicated a book directly to her readers.The Tommy and Tuppence books are: 'The Secret Adversary' (1922);'Partners in Crime' (short story collection) (1929)'N or M?' (1941)'By the Pricking of My Thumbs' (1968)'Postern of Fate' (1973)Upon publication of the first book edition it was reviewed by The Times Literary Supplement in its edition of 26 January, 1922, which described it as "a whirl of thrilling adventures". The critic for The New York Times Book Review (11 June 1922) was also impressed: "It is safe to assert that unless the reader peers into the last chapter or so of the tale, he will not know who this secret adversary is until the author chooses to reveal him." The review gave something of a backhanded compliment when it said that Christie "gives a sense of plausibility to the most preposterous situations and developments."Robert Barnard described the novel as "The first and best (no extravagant compliment this) of the Tommy and Tuppence stories. It tells how the dauntless pair foils a plot to foment labour unrest and red revolution in Britain, masterminded by the man behind the Bolshevists. Good reactionary fun, if you're in that mood".Some additional blurbs regarding the book, and used by The Bodley Head for advertising subsequent print runs, are as follows: "It's an excellent yarn and the reader will find it as impossible as we did to put it aside until the mystery has been fathomed." - Daily Chronicle"We promise our readers an exciting story of adventure, full of hairbreadth escapes, and many disappointments if they try to guess the riddle before the author is ready to give them the clue. An excellent story." - Saturday Review."The atmosphere of the book is admirable and the story will be read with avidity by all. Undoubtedly the book is a success." - East Anglian Daily Times."A book of thrilling adventure. Sensational adventures which make thrilling and gripping reading. Mrs Christie has certainly succeeded in writing a story not only entertaining, but ingenious and amazingly clever." - Irish Independent.Like its predecessor, 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles, ' 'The Secret Adversary' was first published as a serialization in The Times weekly edition (aka The Weekly Times) as a complete and unabridged text in seventeen installments from 12 August (Issue 2328) to 2 December 1921 (Issue 2343). Christie was paid �50 for the serialization rights (�1,545 in 2003 currency).


Clues A Journal Of Detection Vol 39 No 2 Fall 2021

Details Book:
Author by Elizabeth Foxwell
Genre : Literary Criticism
Editor : McFarland
ISBN : 9781476644875
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 250
Download Book

For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal on mystery fiction, Clues is essential reading for literature and film students and researchers; popular culture aficionados; librarians; and mystery authors, fans and critics around the globe.


Agatha Christie

Details Book:
Author by Mark Campbell
Genre : Literary Criticism
Editor : Oldcastle Books
ISBN : 9781843444244
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 160
Download Book

Marking the 125th anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth, this new edition offers an informed introductin to the chief proponent of the English village murder mystery. Although she created two enormously popular characters - the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and the inquisitive elderly spinster and amateur sleuth Miss Jane Marple of St Mary Mead - it is not generally acknowledged that Agatha Christie wrote in many different genres: comic mysteries (Why Didn't They Ask Evans?), atmospheric whodunits (Murder On The Orient Express), espionage thrillers (N or M?), romances (under the pseudonym of Mary Westmacott), plays (The Mousetrap) and poetry. This guide examines all of Christie's novels and short stories and lists the various TV and film adaptations of her works.


Agatha Christie

Details Book:
Author by J.C. Bernthal
Genre :
Editor : McFarland
ISBN : 9781476647159
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 457
Download Book

The undisputed "Queen of Crime," Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is the bestselling novelist of all time. As the creator of immortal detectives Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple, she continues to enthrall readers around the world and is drawing increasing attention from scholars, historians, and critics. But Christie wrote far beyond Poirot and Marple. A varied life including war work, archaeology, and two very different marriages provided the backdrop to a diverse body of work. This encyclopedic companion summarizes and explores Christie's entire literary output, including the detective fiction, plays, radio dramas, adaptations, and her little-studied non-crime writing. It details all published works and key themes and characters, as well as the people and places that inspired them, and identifies a trove of uncollected interviews, articles, and unpublished material, including details that have never appeared in print. For the casual reader looking for background information on their favorite mystery to the dedicated scholar tracking down elusive new angles, this companion will provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date information.


The Plymouth Express Affair By Agatha Christie From The Author Of Books Like And Then There Were None By Agatha Christie Murder On The Orient Express Hercule Poirot 9 Agatha Christie The Mysterious Affair At Styles Hercule Poirot 1 Agatha Christie The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd Hercule Poirot 3 Agatha Christie Death On The Nile Hercule Poirot 16 Agatha Christie Murder At The Vicarage Agatha Christie The A B C Murders Hercule Poirot 12 Agatha Christie The Man In The Brown Suit Colonel Race 1 Agatha Christie

Details Book:
Author by AGATHA CHRISTIE
Genre : Fiction
Editor : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN : 9782301202307
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 18
Download Book

From the Author of Books Like: 1. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 2. Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #9) Agatha Christie 3. The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1) Agatha Christie 4. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #3) Agatha Christie 5. Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #16) Agatha Christie 6. Murder at the Vicarage Agatha Christie 7. The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #12) Agatha Christie 8. The Man in the Brown Suit (Colonel Race, #1) Agatha Christie 9. The Body in the Library Agatha Christie 10. The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2) Agatha Christie 11. Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #18) Agatha Christie 12. Crooked House Agatha Christie 13. Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #21) Agatha Christie 14. Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #22) Agatha Christie 15. A Murder Is Announced Agatha Christie 16. Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #7) Agatha Christie 17. 4:50 from Paddington Agatha Christie 18. Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #1.5) Agatha Christie 19. The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1) Agatha Christie 20. The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot, #5) Agatha Christie 21. Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #14) Agatha Christie 22. Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #13) Agatha Christie 23. Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #17) Agatha Christie 24. Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #32) Agatha Christie 25. Death in the Clouds (Hercule Poirot, #11) Agatha Christie 26. The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #4) Agatha Christie 27. Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #8) Agatha Christie 28. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (Miss Marple, #8) Agatha Christie 29. Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #34) Agatha Christie 30. The Moving Finger Agatha Christie 31. Sleeping Murder Agatha Christie 32. A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7) Agatha Christie 33. Cat Among the Pigeons (Hercule Poirot, #29) Agatha Christie 34. A Caribbean Mystery Agatha Christie 35. After the Funeral (Hercule Poirot, #26) Agatha Christie 36. Nemesis Agatha Christie 37. Elephants Can Remember (Hercule Poirot, #33) Agatha Christie 38. Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #19) Agatha Christie 39. They Do It With Mirrors Agatha Christie 40. At Bertram's Hotel Agatha Christie 41. Dumb Witness (Hercule Poirot, #15) Agatha Christie 42. Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #10) Agatha Christie 43. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Hercule Poirot, #20) Agatha Christie 44. Endless Night Agatha Christie 45. The Hollow (Hercule Poirot, #23) Agatha Christie 46. The Thirteen Problems Agatha Christie 47. The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #30) Agatha Christie 48. Why Didn't They Ask Evans? Agatha Christie 49. Sparkling Cyanide (Colonel Race, #4) Agatha Christie 50. Mrs. McGinty's Dead (Hercule Poirot, #25) Agatha Christie 51. Dead Man's Folly (Hercule Poirot, #28) Agatha Christie 52. Third Girl (Hercule Poirot, #31) Agatha Christie 53. Ordeal by Innocence Agatha Christie 54. The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5) Agatha Christie 55. The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle, #2 Agatha Christie 56. The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle, #1) Agatha Christie 57. The Labours of Hercules (Hercule Poirot, #20.5) Agatha Christie 58. Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4) Agatha Christie 59. N or M? (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #3 Agatha Christie 60. Death Comes as the End Agatha Christie 61. The Sittaford Mystery Agatha Christie 62. Taken at the Flood (Hercule Poirot, #24) Agatha Christie 63. Murder in the Mews (Hercule Poirot, #16.5) Agatha Christie 64. By the Pricking of My Thumbs (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #4) Agatha Christie 65. hey Came to Baghdad Agatha Christie 66. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (Hercule Poirot, #37) Agatha Christie 67. Parker Pyne Investigates Agatha Christie 68. Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2) Agatha Christie 69. Three Blind Mice and Other Stories Agatha Christie 70. The Mysterious Mr. Quin Agatha Christie 71. Destination Unknown Agatha Christie 72. Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories Agatha Christie 73. Poirot's Early Cases: 18 Hercule Poirot Mysteries (Hercule Poirot, #11.5) Agatha Christie 74. Agatha Christie: An Autobiography Agatha Christie 75. Passenger to Frankfurt Agatha Christie 76. Miss Marple's Final Cases Agatha Christie ♥♥ THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES BY AGATHA CHRISTIE (ILLUSTRATED)♥♥ EMILY BRONTË : Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan. Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie is the best-selling author of all time. She wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in Romance. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author, having been translated into at least 103 languages. She is the creator of two of the most enduring figures in crime literature-Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple-and author of The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theatre. Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K., as the youngest of three. The Millers had two other children: Margaret Frary Miller (1879–1950), called Madge, who was eleven years Agatha's senior, and Louis Montant Miller (1880–1929), called Monty, ten years older than Agatha. Before marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the First World War, tending to troops coming back from the trenches. During the First World War, she worked at a hospital as a nurse; later working at a hospital pharmacy, a job that influenced her work, as many of the murders in her books are carried out with poison. During the Second World War, she worked as a pharmacy assistant at University College Hospital, London, acquiring a good knowledge of poisons which feature in many of her novels. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, came out in 1920. During her first marriage, Agatha published six novels, a collection of short stories, and a number of short stories in magazines. In late 1926, Agatha's husband, Archie, revealed that he was in love with another woman, Nancy Neele, and wanted a divorce. On 8 December 1926 the couple quarreled, and Archie Christie left their house, Styles, in Sunningdale, Berkshire, to spend the weekend with his mistress at Godalming, Surrey. That same evening Agatha disappeared from her home, leaving behind a letter for her secretary saying that she was going to Yorkshire. Her disappearance caused an outcry from the public, many of whom were admirers of her novels. Despite a massive manhunt, she was not found for eleven days. In 1930, Christie married archaeologist Max Mallowan (Sir Max from 1968) after joining him in an archaeological dig. Their marriage was especially happy in the early years and remained so until Christie's death in 1976. Christie frequently used familiar settings for her stories. Christie's travels with Mallowan contributed background to several of her novels set in the Middle East. Other novels (such as And Then There Were None) were set in and around Torquay, where she was born. Christie's 1934 novel Murder on the Orient Express was written in the Hotel Pera Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, the southern terminus of the railway. The hotel maintains Christie's room as a memorial to the author. The Greenway Estate in Devon, acquired by the couple as a summer residence in 1938, is now in the care of the National Trust. Christie often stayed at Abney Hall in Cheshire, which was owned by her brother-in-law, James Watts. She based at least two of her stories on the hall: the short story The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, and the novel After the Funeral. Abney Hall became Agatha's greatest inspiration for country-house life, with all the servants and grandeur which have been woven into her plots. To honour her many literary works, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1956 New Year Honours. The next year, she became the President of the Detection Club.


N Or M Tommy Tuppence Book 3

Details Book:
Author by Agatha Christie
Genre : Fiction
Editor : HarperCollins UK
ISBN : 9780007422616
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 304
Download Book

Tommy & Tuppence are hired to track down wartime spies at a seaside resort...


By The Pricking Of My Thumbs Tommy Tuppence Book 4

Details Book:
Author by Agatha Christie
Genre : Fiction
Editor : HarperCollins UK
ISBN : 9780007422180
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 352
Download Book

An old woman in a nursing home speaks of a child buried behind the fireplace...