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Agatha Christie - Page 2

The Mousetrap & Selected Plays Elephants Can Remember Hallowe'en Party The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side The Pale Horse

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Paperback - harpercollins (2001)

The Mousetrap & Selected Plays
50th Anniversary Edition Celebrating the greatest achievement in World Theatre
The Mousetrap, the longest running play in the history of London's West End, began its 50th Year run on 25 November 2001. Now you can enjoy the masterful thriller in this special anniversary edition.
And Then There Were None was a huge theatrical success and was made into a superb film by Rene Clair. The two remaining plays were both adapted by Agatha Christie from her earlier novels: The Hollow, set in the English countryside and Appointment with Death, set among the exotic ruins of Petra in the suffocating heat of the Jordan desert.
Agatha Christie dramatised many of her own stories and frequently devised new twists of plot and character to surprise and enthrall her audience. Known as the Queen of Crime, with her books selling well over a billion copies worldwide, this edition reveals how her plays are as compulsive as her novels, their colourful characters and ingenious plots providing yet more evidence of her skill as a crime writer.
Agatha has written 19 plays and this edition comprises The Mousetrap, And Then There Were None, Appointment With Death and The Hollow.
The Mousetrap is not available in any other published form - the short story being banned from publication in Britain.
The Mousetrap
Being cut off by snowdrifts is not an auspicious beginning, but Molly and Giles Ralston are determined to make a go of their new guest house. But among their first visitors is a maniac with an ambition to murder ‘Three Blind mice’…
And Then There Were None
Ten guilty people, brought together on an island in mysterious circumstances, await their sentence...
Appointment With Death
The suffocating heat of an exotic Middle-Eastern setting provides a backdrop for murder...
The Hollow
A set of friends convene at a country home where their convoluted relationships mean that any one of them could be a murderer...

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Paperback - harpercollins (2002)

Elephants Can Remember
See Review by Martin Edwards - creator of the highly acclaimed, Liverpool based Harry Devlin Mysteries
Hercule Poirot stood on the clifftop. Here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies - a husband and wife - shot dead.
But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves back into the past and discovers that `old sins leave long shadows’.
`Splendid... she tells us all we want to know and nothing that is irrelevant.’ The Times

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Paperback - harpercollins (2001)

Hallowe'en Party
At a Hallowe’en party, Joyce - a hostile thirteen-year-old - boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an applebobbing tub.
That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the `evil presence’. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer...
‘A thundering success:.. a triumph for Hercule Poirot.’ Daily Mirror

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Paperback - Fontana (1969)

The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
What was it that Marina Gregg, the famous film actress, saw just before a murder was committed in her house? What or who caused her expression to change so violently that one observer was reminded of Alfred Tennyson:
Out flew the web and floated wide;
The mirror crack'd from side to side:
"The curse is come upon me," cried
The Lady of Shalott.
A few minutes later a body lay dead in Marina's large house - the second time a victim of wilful murder had been discovered there. Miss Marple, whose house in St. Mary Mead is close to the scene of the murder, finds a perfect opportunity to indulge in the particular kind of "unravefling" at which she is adept. Agatha Christie's millions of fans will enjoy trying to anticipate Miss Marple, as they will enjoy the humour and characterisation of this ingenious and exciting story.

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Hardback harpercollins (2002)

The Pale Horse
To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning?
Was it the savage blow to the back of Farther Gorman's head? Or the priest's visit, just minutes before, to a woman on her death bed? Or was there a deeper significance to the violent squabble which Mark Easterbrook had himself witnessed earlier?
'Wholesale murder by black magic… highly ingenious, wholly enjoyable' Evening Standard

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