The House of Dreams: An Agatha Christie Short Story

The House of Dreams: An Agatha Christie Short Story PDF Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0007560230
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.

The House of Dreams

The House of Dreams PDF Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062302833
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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Previously published in the print anthology The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories. John Seagrove, a young city clerk, awakens early one morning in his London bedsit, desperately clinging to a dream that has just transformed his life. The next day, while dining at his boss’s house, he meets the enigmatic Allegra Kerr. Falling in love with her at first sight, John instantly realizes this is the overwhelming joy his dream foreshadowed … but could darker forces be at work?

The House of Dreams: An Agatha Christie Short Story

The House of Dreams: An Agatha Christie Short Story PDF Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0007560230
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Book Description
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.

The House of Dreams and Other Stories

The House of Dreams and Other Stories PDF Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780007215256
Category : Compact discs
Languages : en
Pages : 63

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Incorporating 2 CDs and a complementary book in DVD-style packaging, this selection of stories by the is designed to entertain as well as to teach and improve English for international readers and listeners. Each volume is read by a selection of celebrated readers.

Philomel Cottage

Philomel Cottage PDF Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: MB Cooltura
ISBN: 9877448548
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Alix falls in love with a perfect stranger: Gerald Martin; and despite the opposition of her friend Dick Windyford, she marries him. The couple decides to buy and live at Philomel Cottage; a nice cabin lost in the country. Suddenly, Alix begins to think that her husband is a murderer who wants to keep her money and desperately must find the way to escape without arousing his suspicions. Will she make it?

The Dream

The Dream PDF Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062129562
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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Hercule Poirot is reluctant to answer a letter demanding his services by the reclusive and eccentric millionaire Benedict Farley. Farley wants him to diagnose his recurring dream of death, in which he shoots himself at precisely 3:28 p.m. Then, a week after dismissing Poirot, the dream becomes real. Each member of the Farley household that Poirot questions seems to be more puzzled than the one before. Was Benedict Farley’s death a suicide, or are darker forces at work?

Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Spring 2023)

Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Spring 2023) PDF Author:
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476651639
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 185

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For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal on mystery fiction, Clues is essential reading for literature and film students and researchers; popular culture aficionados; librarians; and mystery authors, fans and critics around the globe.

Within a Wall

Within a Wall PDF Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062302868
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31

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Previously published in the print anthology The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories. Alan Everard, a successful modernist painter, is married to the beautiful society girl Isobel Loring, who eagerly promotes her husband's work. At one of her tea parties, to which she invites the London art critics, she unveils her husband's latest masterpiece—a portrait of herself. But Alan realizes the picture is lifeless. However, a sketch he has done of his daughter's godmother, Jane Haworth, is full of life and honesty. Alan soon discovers that the real contribution Jane has made to his life is not just her artistic judgment.

The Lonely God

The Lonely God PDF Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062302841
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Previously published in the print anthology The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories. Frank Oliver returns to England after years of overseas service only to realize he no longer knows anyone there. On visiting the British Museum, he encounters the “lonely god,” who seems to be experiencing the same sense of isolation he is. Will this strange deity help relieve him of his loneliness?

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie PDF Author: Mark Campbell
Publisher: Oldacastle Books
ISBN: 1842435353
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. In this book, Mark Campbell provides an informed introduction to the Agatha Christie phenomenon, including a biography of the great author, in-depth profiles of 10 of her most popular characters, analyses of the stories, and a section on film, TV, and stage adaptations. Appendices include an exhaustive biography and an overview of the best Christie websites around.

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie PDF Author: Mary Anna Evans
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350212490
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 425

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Nominated for the 2023 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical / Biography The first specifically academic companion to contemporary scholarship on the work of Agatha Christie, this book includes chapters by an international group of scholars writing on topics and fields of study as various as ecocriticism and the anthropocene, popular modernism, middlebrow fiction, queer theory, feminism, crime and the state, and more. It addresses a broad selection of Christie's crime novels, as well as her short stories, literary novels written pseudonymously, and her own and others' dramatic adaptations for television, film, and the stage. Featuring unprecedented access to images and content held in Christie's personal archive, as well as a Foreword from renowned crime fiction writer Val McDermid, this is essential reading for anyone interested in Christie's work and legacy.