Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Ryerson Press ; New York : J. Lane ; London : J. Lane, 1920 (New York : J.J. Little & Ives)
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 27,38 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The heiress of Styles has been murdered, dying in agony from strychnine slipped into her coffee. And there are plenty who would gain from her death: the financially strapped stepson, the gold digging younger husband, and an embittered daughter-in-law. Agatha Christie's eccentric and hugely popular detective, Hercule Poirot, was introduced to the world in this book, which launched her career as the most famous and best loved of all mystery writers.
Author : Scott Palmer
Publisher : Trafalgar Square Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,11 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Complete and up-to-date coverage of all films, both for cinema and for TV, made from the works of Dame Agatha Christie. Each entry contains a cast list, synopsis, plot, character analyses, reviews and other comments, making this the ultimate film reference book for every Christie fan. The films are dealt with chronologically from the very first film of an Agatha Christie story, Die Abenteuer GMBH, in 1928, through all the favourites such as Ten Little Indians, Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile and A Caribbean Mystery, right up to the latest in the series starring David Suchet as Poirot, The Mirror Cracked From Side to Side.
Author : Mark Aldridge
Publisher : Springer
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 13,13 MB
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137372923
This book is a comprehensive exploration of 90 years of film and television adaptations of the world’s best-selling novelist’s work. Drawing on extensive archival material, it offers new information regarding both the well-known and forgotten screen adaptations of Agatha Christie’s stories, including unmade and rare adaptations, some of which have been unseen for more than half a century. This history offers intriguing insights into the discussions and debates that surrounded many of these screen projects – something that is brought to life through previously unpublished correspondence from Christie herself and a new wide-ranging interview with her grandson, Mathew Prichard. Agatha Christie on Screen takes the reader on a journey from little known silent film adaptations, through to famous screen productions including 1974’s Murder on the Orient Express, as well as the television series of the Poirot and Miss Marple stories and, most recently, the BBC’s acclaimed version of And Then There Were None.
Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,85 MB
Release : 1982-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780671460747
Author : M. M. Kaye
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 30,93 MB
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250089247
Written by celebrated author M. M. Kaye, Death in Kasmir is a wonderfully evocative mystery ... When young Sarah Parrish takes a skiing vacation to Gulmarg, a resort nestled in the mountains above the fabled Vale of Kashmir, she anticipates an entertaining but uneventful stay. But when she discovers that the deaths of two in her party are the result of foul play, she finds herself entrusted with a mission of unforeseen importance. And when she leaves the ski slopes for the Waterwitch, a private houseboat on the placid shores of the Dal Lake near Srinagar, she discovers to her horror that the killer will stop at nothing to prevent Sarah from piecing the puzzle together.
Author : Scott V Palmer
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,49 MB
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781944786083
This book is a comparative study of the five film and six television adaptations of Agatha Christie's most famous novel. Cast listings, story synopses, and descriptions of the films are give, along with biographies of the more than 100 actors who appeared in the productions
Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,80 MB
Release : 1992-10
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 9780785748588
A corpse is discovered in the home of Col. and Mrs. Bantry, and when suspicion fall on the colonel, Miss Marple set out to prove her innocence.
Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : pages
File Size : 14,78 MB
Release : 2017-05-18
Category :
ISBN : 9780008196677
A young man, broken down in the fog, witnesses a murder he is asked to conceal... A full-length novel adapted by Charles Osborne from Agatha Christie's acclaimed play. When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog in South Wales and makes his way to an isolated house, he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of her wheelchair-bound husband, gun in her hand. She admits to murder, and the unexpected guest offers to help her concoct a cover story. But is it possible that Laura Warwick did not commit the murder after all? If so, who is she shielding? The victim's young half-brother or his dying matriarchal mother? Laura's lover? Perhaps the father of the little boy killed in an accident for which Warwick was responsible? The house seems full of possible suspects... THE UNEXPECTED GUEST is considered to be one of the finest of Christie's plays. Hailed as 'another Mousetrap' when it opened on 12 August 1958 in the West End, it ran for 604 performances over the succeeding 18 months and has been staged many times around the world over the last 40 years.
Author : J.C. Bernthal
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 49,86 MB
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476647151
The undisputed "Queen of Crime," Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is the bestselling novelist of all time. As the creator of immortal detectives Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple, she continues to enthrall readers around the world and is drawing increasing attention from scholars, historians, and critics. But Christie wrote far beyond Poirot and Marple. A varied life including war work, archaeology, and two very different marriages provided the backdrop to a diverse body of work. This encyclopedic companion summarizes and explores Christie's entire literary output, including the detective fiction, plays, radio dramas, adaptations, and her little-studied non-crime writing. It details all published works and key themes and characters, as well as the people and places that inspired them, and identifies a trove of uncollected interviews, articles, and unpublished material, including details that have never appeared in print. For the casual reader looking for background information on their favorite mystery to the dedicated scholar tracking down elusive new angles, this companion will provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date information.
Author : Lucy Worsley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 22,43 MB
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1639362533
A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural historian Lucy Worsley. "Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was." Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was “just” an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn’t? Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, as Lucy Worsley says, "She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern." She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. So why—despite all the evidence to the contrary—did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure? She was born in 1890 into a world that had its own rules about what women could and couldn’t do. Lucy Worsley’s biography is not just of a massively, internationally successful writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman. With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley’s biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realize what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was—truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.
