Miss Marple #7

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A new tie-in edition of Agatha Christie's bestseller, to coincide with the broadcast of the new movie on ITV starring Geraldine McEwan. Includes a full colour plate section, a 'making of' essay, background facts and a bonus chapter. For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Helplessly, she stared out of her carriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip around a woman's throat. The body crumpled. Then the other train drew away. But who, apart from Miss Marple, would take her story seriously? After all, there were no suspects, no other witnesses! and no corpse.

352 pages, Paperback

First published November 4,1957

This edition

Format
352 pages, Paperback
Published
January 1, 2005 by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
ISBN
9780007191017
ASIN
0007191014
Language
English
Characters More characters
  • Lucy Eyelesbarrow

    Lucy Eyelesbarrow

    Miss Marples proxy at Rutherford Hall. Head housekeeper. 32. She had placed first in mathematics at Oxford and was expected to take up a distinguished academic career.more...

  • Elspeth McGillicuddy

    Elspeth Mcgillicuddy

    Witness to a murder on a passing train. A friend of Miss Marple....

  • Luther Crackenthorpe

    Luther Crackenthorpe

    Elderly widower and owner of Rutherford Hall, very selfish with money. He and his wife had 6 children....

  • Cedric Crackenthorpe

    Cedric Crackenthorpe

    Luthers son; a bohemian painter and lover of women. He lives in Ibiza. The eldest son of the three.more...

  • Harold Crackenthorpe

    Harold Crackenthorpe

    Luthers son; a cold and stuffy banker.more...

  • Alfred Crackenthorpe

    Alfred Crackenthorpe

    Luthers son; wartime spy and con artist. The black sheep of Luthers six children.more...

About the author

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Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.

This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater.

Associated Names:
Agata Christie
Agata Kristi
Агата Кристи (Russian)
Агата Крісті (Ukrainian)
Αγκάθα Κρίστι (Greek)
アガサ クリスティ (Japanese)
阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂 (Chinese)

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