James Zemboy

The Detective Novels of Agatha Christie

A Reader's Guide

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Produktbeschreibung

The most popular mystery writer of all time concocted a rich recipe of intrigue, character, and setting. All of Agatha Christie's 66 detective novels are covered here in great detail. Each chapter begins with general comments on a novel's geographical and historical setting, identifying current events, fashions, fads and popular interests that relate to the story. A concise plot summary and comprehensive character listing follow, and each novel is discussed within Christie's overall body of work, with an emphasis on the development of themes, narrative technique, and characters over the course of her prolific career. An appendix translates Poirot's French and defines the British idiomatic words and phrases that give Christie's novels so much of their flavor.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 840g
• ISBN-13: 9781476665955
• ISBN-10: 1476665958
• Artikelnr.: 44676706

Autorenporträt

James Zemboy taught French and Spanish in community college for many years. He lives in Detroit.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface     
Introduction     
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)     
The Secret Adversary (1922)     
Murder on the Links (1923)     
The Man in the Brown Suit (1924)     
The Secret of Chimneys (1925)     
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)     
The Big Four (1927)     
The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)     
The Seven Dials Mystery (1929)     
Summary for the 1920s     
Murder at the Vicarage (1930)     
Murder at Hazelmoor (1931)     
Peril at End House (1932)     
Thirteen at Dinner (1933)     
The Boomerang Clue (1934)     
Murder in the Calais Coach (1934)     
Murder in Three Acts (1935)     
Death in the Air (1935)     
The A.B.C. Murders (1935)     
Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)     
Cards on the Table (1936)     
Death on the Nile (1937)     
Poirot Loses a Client (1937)     
Appointment with Death (1938)     
A Holiday for Murder (1938)     
Easy to Kill (1939)     
And Then There Were None (1939)     
Summary for the 1930s     
Sad Cypress (1940)     
The Patriotic Murders (1940)     
Evil Under the Sun (1941)     
N or M? (1941)     
The Body in the Library (1942)     
The Moving Finger (1942)     
Murder in Retrospect (1943)     
Towards Zero (1944)     
Death Comes as the End (1945)     
Remembered Death (1945)     
Murder After Hours (1946)     
There Is a Tide (1948)     
Crooked House (1949)     
Summary for the 1940s     
A Murder Is Announced(1950)     
They Came to Baghdad (1951)     
Mrs. McGinty's Dead (1952)     
Murder with Mirrors (1952)     
A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)     
Funerals Are Fatal (1953)     
So Many Steps to Death (1954)     
Hickory, Dickory, Death (1955)     
Dead Man's Folly (1956)     
What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw (1957)     
Ordeal by Innocence (1958)     
Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)     
Summary for the 1950s     
The Pale Horse (1961)     
The Mirror Crack'd (1962)     
The Clocks (1963)     
A Caribbean Mystery (1964)     
At Bertram's Hotel (1965)     
Third Girl (1966)     
Endless Night (1967)     
By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968)     
Hallowe'en Party (1969)     
Summary for the 1960s     
Passenger to Frankfurt (1970)     
Nemesis (1971)     
Elephants Can Remember (1972)     
Postern of Fate (1974)     
Curtain (1975)     
Sleeping Murder (1976)     
Summary for the 1970s     
Appendix: British Expressions     
Title and Character Index     
Subject Index