Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in 100 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.
Agatha Christie's first novel, The Mystery Affair of Styles, was written towards the end of the First World War, in which she served as a VAD. In it she created Hercule Poirot, the little Belgian detective who was destined to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. It was eventually published by The Bodley Head in 1920.
In 1926, after averaging a book a year, Agatha Christie wrote her masterpiece. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was the first of her books to be published by Collins and marked the beginning of an author-publisher relationship which lasted for 50 years and well over 70 books. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was also the first of Agatha Christie's books to be dramatised - under the name Alibi - and to have a successful run in London's West End. The Mousetrap, her most famous play of all, opened in 1952 and is the longest-running play in history.
Agatha Christie was made a Dame in 1971. She died in 1976, since when a number of books have been published posthumously: the bestselling novel Sleeping Murder appeared later that year, followed by her autobiography and the short story collection Miss Marple's Final Cases, Problem at Pollensa Bay and While the Light Lasts. In 1998 Black Coffee was the first of her plays to be novelised by another author, Charles Osborne.
(from the first pages of Agatha Christie's paperbacks published by HarperCollins)
As Jane Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine she felt mildly disconnected with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened.
Eventually, her interest was aroused by an old soldier's yarn about a strange coincidence. Infuriatingly, just as he was about to show her an astonishing photograph, the Major's attention wandered. He never did finish the story...
'Liveliness... infectious zest... as good as anything Miss Christie has done.' Observer
最近有点空余时间,再次看了阿婆的《加勒比海岛谋杀案》,重温一下马普尔小姐的魅力。 小说还是很有意思的,悬疑设置的不是很深,也能猜到一些答案的,但是里面的人物都非常有趣,我非常喜欢阿婆对人物深刻的刻画,栩栩如生,可以想象到人物的样子,阿婆看来还是个婚姻保卫者,...
评分 评分杀人无非是两条道路,“激情杀人”和“蓄谋已久”。“激情杀人”是在双方陷入白热化争斗之中热血上头的后果,而“蓄谋已久”则是有目的有计划的谋杀。两条道路的结果都是人的死亡,而当有死者出现,自然故事里面就有凶手。侦探的目的就是找出凶手,凶手的目的则是逃出生天。 “...
评分最近有点空余时间,再次看了阿婆的《加勒比海岛谋杀案》,重温一下马普尔小姐的魅力。 小说还是很有意思的,悬疑设置的不是很深,也能猜到一些答案的,但是里面的人物都非常有趣,我非常喜欢阿婆对人物深刻的刻画,栩栩如生,可以想象到人物的样子,阿婆看来还是个婚姻保卫者,...
评分大学里读的很多,但都是波洛的探案集,这本是头一回读马普尔小姐的作品,但情节一如既往的紧凑,扣人心弦,最后凶手倒是出人意料,(当然这个是阿加莎的杀手锏了),现在很多作品都是靠对话推动情节,略显无趣,但是阿婆的作品虽然也是对话,但写的就能让人欲罢不能的读下去,...
3.10- 12| for once she didn't draw any resemblance between the murderer and her formal acquaintances
评分3.10- 12| for once she didn't draw any resemblance between the murderer and her formal acquaintances
评分2008年看 我都忘了是什么时候看的。只要是Miss Marple的,我就提不起兴趣。留到最后勉强看完,连记都没记一笔... 这个故事好像也是个讨厌老头被杀的什么故事吧,内容都忘了。
评分3.10- 12| for once she didn't draw any resemblance between the murderer and her formal acquaintances
评分其实很好,不知道为什么评分不高,毕竟不喜欢慢节奏的人本就不该看阿加莎的书。
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