Cat Among the Pigeons is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 2 November 1959, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1960 with a copyright date of 1959. ‘Hope nobody here had nothing to hide,’ said Miss Springer, the new Game Mistress at Meadowbank to her colleagues at the beginning of the summer term. Days later the s... Read More
Agatha Christie was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. Her reputation rests on 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections that have sold over two billion copies. Her works contain several regular characters with whom the public became familiar, including Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Parker Pyne and Harley Quin. The Regatta Mystery... Read More
Agatha Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon. 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. She was initially an unsuccessful writer with six consecutive rejections, but this changed when The Mysterious Affair at Styles, featuring Hercule Poir... Read More
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie also wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery, The Mousetrap, and, under the pen name Mary Westmacott, six romances. Where did she ge... Read More
The Hollow is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the United States by Dodd, Mead & Co. in 1946 and in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club in November of the same year. The eccentric Lucy Angkatell has invited the Christows, along with other members of her extended family, to her estate for the weekend. John Christow is carrying on an affair with Henr... Read More
Agatha Christie was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. Her reputation rests on 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections that have sold over two billion copies. In Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, the story follows the main character, Arthur Hastings, where he embarks on a trip to stay in the Styles guesthouse, which is a house that he once lived in when his frie... Read More
Agatha Christie was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. Christie's Cards on the Table is considered to be one of her very best locked room mysteries. Her character, the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot is invited by Mr Shaitana to an unusual dinner party. Mr Shaitana, who chooses to adopt a Mephistophelian appearance, is considered by many who know him to truly be a d... Read More
Hickory Dickory Dock is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 31 October 1955 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in November of the same year under the title of Hickory Dickory Death. The title is taken, as are other of Christie's titles, from a nursery rhyme: Hickory Dickory Dock. This is nevertheless one of her most tenu... Read More
Agatha Christie's first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introduced Hercule Poirot, her eccentric and egotistic Belgian detective. Christie’s first major recognition came with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, which was followed by some 75 novels that usually made best-seller lists. In 1955, Christie was the first recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's highest honour, the Grand Master... Read More
Dumb Witness is a detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 5 July 1937 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year under the title of Poirot Loses a Client. In The New York Times Book Review, Kay Irvin wrote that "Agatha Christie can be depended upon to tell a good tale. Even when she is not doing her mo... Read More
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon. Before marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospi... Read More