Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Putnam Adult
ISBN: 9780399140792
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This omnibus edition presents a quintet of classics from the champion deceiver of our time including The Murder at the Vicarage--Miss Marple's first mystery--a super-puzzling Hercule Poirot mystery, Sad Cypress, and the ingenious Towards Zero, N or M? and Dead Man's Folly.
Agatha Christie's Detectives
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Putnam Adult
ISBN: 9780399140792
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This omnibus edition presents a quintet of classics from the champion deceiver of our time including The Murder at the Vicarage--Miss Marple's first mystery--a super-puzzling Hercule Poirot mystery, Sad Cypress, and the ingenious Towards Zero, N or M? and Dead Man's Folly.
Publisher: Putnam Adult
ISBN: 9780399140792
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This omnibus edition presents a quintet of classics from the champion deceiver of our time including The Murder at the Vicarage--Miss Marple's first mystery--a super-puzzling Hercule Poirot mystery, Sad Cypress, and the ingenious Towards Zero, N or M? and Dead Man's Folly.
The Love Detectives: An Agatha Christie Short Story
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 000745211X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 000745211X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.
Masterpieces in Miniature: The Detectives
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 9780312349387
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Agatha Christie is the world's most popular writer in modern times and her books have only been outsold by the Bible and Shakespeare. Best remembered for such classic crime novels as Murder on the Orient Express, And Then There Were None, and Death on the Nile, her works have been cherished by generations of readers. Christie, however, was also a master of the shorter crime story and this volume collects some of her finest short stories. Each of these thirty-nine stories features one of Christie's famous detectives - Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, Parker Pyne, and Harley Quin - in some of their most baffling and intriguing cases, as these ingenious Christie tales show how satisfying and compelling the crime short story can be.
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 9780312349387
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Agatha Christie is the world's most popular writer in modern times and her books have only been outsold by the Bible and Shakespeare. Best remembered for such classic crime novels as Murder on the Orient Express, And Then There Were None, and Death on the Nile, her works have been cherished by generations of readers. Christie, however, was also a master of the shorter crime story and this volume collects some of her finest short stories. Each of these thirty-nine stories features one of Christie's famous detectives - Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, Parker Pyne, and Harley Quin - in some of their most baffling and intriguing cases, as these ingenious Christie tales show how satisfying and compelling the crime short story can be.
The Mysterious Mr. Quin
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312981600
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Mr. Harley Quin has an almost magical flair for appearing at the scene of the most remarkable crimes. But is it a light trick that haunts his shadow with a ghostly apparition? Is it fate that invited him to a New Year's Eve murder? And what forces are at work when his car breaks down outside Royston Hall, an isolated estate with a deadly history?
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312981600
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Mr. Harley Quin has an almost magical flair for appearing at the scene of the most remarkable crimes. But is it a light trick that haunts his shadow with a ghostly apparition? Is it fate that invited him to a New Year's Eve murder? And what forces are at work when his car breaks down outside Royston Hall, an isolated estate with a deadly history?
Dining Room Detectives
Author: Silvia Baucekova
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443881244
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
In the structuralist understanding as proposed by John G. Cawelti, a classical detective novel is defined as a formula which contains prescribed elements and develops in a predefined, ritualistic manner. When described in this way, the crime fiction formula very closely resembles a recipe: when one cooks, they also add prescribed ingredients in a predefined way in order to produce the final dish. This surprising parallel serves as the starting point for this book’s analysis of classical detective novels by Agatha Christie. Here, a structuralist approach to Golden Age crime fiction is complemented by methodology developed in the field of food studies in order to demonstrate the twofold role that food plays in Christie’s novels: namely, its function as an element of the formula – a literary device – but also as a cultural sign. Christie employed food on various different levels of her stories in order to portray characters, construct plots, and depict settings. What is more, incorporating domesticity and food in her novels helped her fundamentally alter the rigid conventions of the crime fiction genre as it developed in the nineteenth century, and enabled her to successfully introduce the character of the female detective and to feminise the detective novel as such.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443881244
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
In the structuralist understanding as proposed by John G. Cawelti, a classical detective novel is defined as a formula which contains prescribed elements and develops in a predefined, ritualistic manner. When described in this way, the crime fiction formula very closely resembles a recipe: when one cooks, they also add prescribed ingredients in a predefined way in order to produce the final dish. This surprising parallel serves as the starting point for this book’s analysis of classical detective novels by Agatha Christie. Here, a structuralist approach to Golden Age crime fiction is complemented by methodology developed in the field of food studies in order to demonstrate the twofold role that food plays in Christie’s novels: namely, its function as an element of the formula – a literary device – but also as a cultural sign. Christie employed food on various different levels of her stories in order to portray characters, construct plots, and depict settings. What is more, incorporating domesticity and food in her novels helped her fundamentally alter the rigid conventions of the crime fiction genre as it developed in the nineteenth century, and enabled her to successfully introduce the character of the female detective and to feminise the detective novel as such.
The Agatha Christie Who's who
Author: Randall Toye
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780584950267
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780584950267
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Agatha Christie
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780517035825
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
A collection of novels by renowned mystery author Agatha Christie.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780517035825
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
A collection of novels by renowned mystery author Agatha Christie.
Five Complete Novels of Murder and Detection
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Wings
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Five complete, unabridged books in one volume.
Publisher: Wings
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Five complete, unabridged books in one volume.
Agatha Christie Detectives
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780517035818
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
A collection of five Agatha Christie mystery novels.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780517035818
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
A collection of five Agatha Christie mystery novels.
Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?
Author: Pierre Bayard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781565846777
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A French psychoanalyst and literary scholar offers a dramatic re-reading of Agatha Christie's classic novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, challenging Hercule Poirot's conclusions about the identity of the killer and presenting a startling new solution to the crime. Reprint.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781565846777
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A French psychoanalyst and literary scholar offers a dramatic re-reading of Agatha Christie's classic novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, challenging Hercule Poirot's conclusions about the identity of the killer and presenting a startling new solution to the crime. Reprint.