The youngest of three children of the Miller family. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. More than seventy detective novels of British writer Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie include The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and And Then There Were None (1939) she also wrote plays, including The Mousetrap (1952). Decorative, durable, and collectible, these books offer hours of pleasure to readers young and old, and are an indispensable cornerstone for every home library.Īgatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors, in exquisitely designed bonded-leather bindings with distinctive gilt edging and an attractive silk-ribbon bookmark. But he ignores an old woman’s warning of an ancient curse, and soon evil begins to stir in paradise-for, as Michael discovers, Gypsy’s Acre is a place where fatal “accidents” happen.Īnd Then There Were None and Other Classic Mysteries is one of Barnes & Noble's collectible classics editions. But sometimes the best-reasoned suspicions overlook the clues.Įndless Night is the story of penniless Michael Rogers, who discovers the beautiful house at Gypsy’s Acre and heiress Ellie, a dream come true. Suspicions naturally fall on the old man’s young wife, fifty years his junior. That is until the head of the household, Aristide, is murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection. The Leonides, at the center of Crooked House, are one big happy family living in a sprawling ramshackle mansion. And then night after night, one by one, another of them is found dead. In And Then There Were None, the bestselling mystery of all time, ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion of the Devon coast where, over dinner, a recorded message accuses each of them of harboring a guilty secret. A collection of three classic crime novels by Agatha Christie, the undisputed Queen of Mystery.
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