Agatha Christie

Broschiertes Buch

Partners in Crime

Beschreibung

"The second book to feature Agatha Christie's characters Tommy and Tuppence solving mysteries together, first published in 1929. Now with an Afterword by Christie's biographer Laura Thompson"--

Autor

AGATHA CHRISTIE (1890-1976) was born in Devon, England. She wrote more than 70 books and 150 short stories, as well as works for stage and screen. Her novel And Then There Were None is considered the world's bestselling mystery novel, and her play The Mousetrap is the longest-running play in London theater history. About the Introducer LAURA THOMPSON is the author of Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life, which was a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for biography. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed biography of Nancy Mitford, Life in a Cold Climate, and of The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters.

© Angus Mc Bean (National Portrait Gallery, London)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 130mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9780593688717
• ISBN-10: 0593688716
• Artikelnr.: 70374078

Rezensionen

'Required reading.'
Books

'Distinctly worthwhile.'
New York Times

'Sherlock Holmes, John Thorndyke, Father Brown and even Poirot are amiably parodied, and once or twice the solution as well as the dialogue is deliberately facetious.'
Times Literary Supplement