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Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time with her works outsold only by Shakespeare and the Bible. She is regarded by generations of fans as the greatest mystery writer ever, and her novels are read and cherished the world over.

Clarissa, the young wife of a Foreign Office Diplomat, delights in tweaking the sensibilities of her more serious friends and for playing a game she calls "supposing" - imagining a difficult situation and figuring out how people would respond. But Clarissa's lighthearted game becomes deadly serious when she discovers the dead body of an unknown person in her own drawing room. If that wasn't bad enough, her husband is on the way home with an important foreign politician and the attendant scandal of the dead body would irrevocably damage his career at the very least. Therefore, Clarissa decides to dispose of the body and persuades her three houseguests to help.

But before she can get the body off the premises, a policeman arrives at her front door. The police received an anonymous tip about a murder in the house and have shown up to investigate. Now Clarissa must keep the body hidden, convince the skeptical police inspector that there has been no murder, and, in the meantime, find out who has been murdered, why, and what the body is doing in her house.

Originally written by Agatha Christie as a play in 1954, now rendered as a novel by Charles Osborne, Spider's Web is a compelling tale of murder and deceit sure to entertain and amuse the legions of Christie's fans worldwide.

無可爭議的偵探小說女王，偵探文學史上最偉大的作傢之一。

阿加莎•剋裏斯蒂原名為阿加莎•瑪麗•剋拉麗莎•米勒，一八九〇年九月十五日生於英國德文郡托基的阿什菲爾德宅邸。她幾乎沒有接受過正規的教育，但酷愛閱讀，尤其癡迷於歇洛剋•福爾摩斯的故事。

第一次世界大戰期間，阿加莎•剋裏斯蒂成瞭一名誌願者。戰爭結束後，她創作瞭自己的第一部偵探小說《斯泰爾斯莊園奇案》。幾經周摺，作品於一九二○正式齣 版，由此開啓瞭剋裏斯蒂輝煌的創作生涯。一九二六年，《羅傑疑案》由哈珀柯林斯齣版公司齣版。這部作品一舉奠定瞭阿加莎•剋裏斯蒂在偵探文學領域不可撼動的地位。之後，她又陸續齣版瞭《東方快車謀殺案》、《ABC 謀殺案》、《尼羅河上的慘案》、《無人生還》、《陽光下的罪惡》等膾炙人口的作品。時至今日，這些作品依然是世界偵探文學寶庫裏最寶貴的財富。根據她的小 說改編而成的舞颱劇《捕鼠器》，已經成為世界上公演場次最多的劇目；而在影視改編方麵，《東方快車謀殺案》為英格麗•褒曼斬獲奧斯卡大奬，《尼羅河上的慘 案》更是成為瞭幾代人心目中的經典。

阿加莎•剋裏斯蒂的創作生涯持續瞭五十餘年，總共創作瞭八十部偵探小說。她的作品暢銷全世界一 百多個國傢和地區，纍計銷量已經突破二十億冊。她創造的小鬍子偵探波洛和老處女偵探馬普爾小姐為讀者津津樂道。阿加莎•剋裏斯蒂是柯南•道爾之後最偉大的 偵探小說作傢，是偵探文學黃金時代的開創者和集大成者。一九七一年，英國女王授予剋裏斯蒂爵士稱號，以錶彰其不朽的貢獻。