Authors: Agatha Christie
ISBN-13: 9780312351489, ISBN-10: 0312351488
Format: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: February 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Agatha Christie is nearly synonymous with upper-class British mysteries, for good reason. She set the standard for the genre in over 60 novels and dozens of short stories, also creating two classic detectives: the fastidious Belgian, Hercule Poirot, and English spinster Jane Marple. No one could match Christie's knack for weaving clues into her stories, then turning the whole thing inside out -- shocking her readers every time.
Agatha Christie is the world's most popular fiction writer; her works have been outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Best remembered for her classic crime novels such as Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None, her works have been cherished by generations of readers. Christie, however, was also a master of the short story and this volume collects some of her finest short pieces. With such masterpieces as 'Witness for the Prosecution' (the basis for the classic film) and 'Three Blind Mice' (the basis for her Mousetrap, the longest-running play in history), as well as some of her lesser known works, including all of her supernatural suspense tales, this collection of twenty-eight ingenious tales displays Agatha Christie's full range as an author.
The dressmaker's doll | 1 | |
The last seance | 21 | |
The witness for the prosecution | 36 | |
The red signal | 58 | |
The fourth man | 78 | |
S.O.S. | 95 | |
Where there's a will | 113 | |
The mystery of the blue jar | 128 | |
Sing a song of sixpence | 148 | |
The mystery of the Spanish shawl | 166 | |
Philomel cottage | 183 | |
Accident | 207 | |
The Listerdale mystery | 217 | |
The girl in the train | 235 | |
The manhood of Edward Robinson | 255 | |
Jane in search of a job | 270 | |
A fruitful Sunday | 291 | |
The golden ball | 301 | |
The Rajah's emerald | 312 | |
Swan song | 329 | |
The hound of death | 344 | |
The gipsy | 363 | |
The lamp | 374 | |
The strange case of Sir Arthur Carmichael | 383 | |
The call of wings | 404 | |
Magnolia blossom | 419 | |
Next to a dog | 437 | |
Three blind mice | 453 |