|
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay,
in the county of Devon, as the daughter of Frederick Alvah Miller,
an American with a moderate private income, and Clarissa Miller.
Her father died when she was a child. Christie was educated home,
where her mother encouraged her to write from very early age. Very
prolific British author of mystery novels and short stories,
creator of Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective, and Miss Jane
Marple. Christie wrote more than 70 detective novels under the
surname of her first husband, Colonel Archibald Christie whom she
married in 1914. During World War I she worked in a Red Cross
Hospital in Torquayas a hospital dispenser, which gave her a
knowledge of poisons. It was to be useful when she started writing
mysteries. Christie's first detective novel, The Mysterious
Affair at Styles, introduced Hercule Poirot, who appeared in
more than 40 books. Christie died on January 12, 1976 in
Wallingford, Oxforshire. With over one hundred novels and 103
translations into foreign languages, Christie was by the time of
her death the best-selling English novelist of all time. |
how
to download
this book
cómo descargar
este libro |
THE
MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES
(120 KB)
Fiction, mystery and
detective stories
This is the famous case that launched the career of Hercule
Poirot.
When a wealthy heiress is murdered, Poirot steps out of retirement to find the
killer. As the master detective makes his way through the list of
suspects, he
finds the solution in an elaborately planned scheme almost impossible to believe. |
|
|
how
to download
this book
cómo descargar
este libro |
THE
SECRET ADVERSARY (165 KB)
Fiction, mystery and
detective stories
Five years after the mysterious disappearance of Jane
Finn,
who was known to have been carrying top secret documents, undercover agents
Tommy and Tuppence race to save an elderly woman who knows of Jane's whereabouts
from a killer. Detective duo Tommy and Tuppence Beresford apply their wits,
charms, and adventurous spirits to a menacing mystery that spells certain
poisonous death for this missing lady at the hands of dangerous unknown foe. |
|
|