Agatha Christie

The ABC Murders

A Hercule Poirot Mystery

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Produktbeschreibung

There's a serial killer on the loose, working his way through the alphabet and the whole country is in a state of panic. A is for Mrs. Ascher in Andover, B is for Betty Barnard in Bexhill, C is for Sir Carmichael Clarke in Churston. With each murder, the killer is getting more confident?but leaving a trail of deliberate clues to taunt the proud Hercule Poirot might just prove to be the first, and fatal, mistake.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 202mm x 134mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 208g
• ISBN-13: 9780062073587
• ISBN-10: 0062073583
• Artikelnr.: 32463540

Autorenporträt

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.

? Angus Mc Bean (National Portrait Gallery, London)

Rezensionen

"There is no more cunning player of the murder game than Agatha Christie." Sunday Times

"A masterwork of carefully concealed artifice... most stunningly original." Julian Symons

"An Agatha Christie triumph." Morning Post

"The best thing she has ever written, compact, witty and horribly exciting." Sunday Referee

"An entirely original idea." Daily Telegraph

"Mrs Christie has invented an entirely new plot for a detective story - a difficult thing in these days; she is to be congratulated on the perfection of her invention." The Times

"Her best yet. Where does she get hold of these brilliant notions?" Bristol Evening Post

"Vive Hercule Poirot! He is back again ... and I, for one, am thrilled to the marrow bones ... the most amazing finale for sheer ingenuity that I have ever come across ... Mrs Christie has pulled it off yet again." The Bystander