Crooked House
The Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That is until the head of the household, Aristide, is murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection.
Suspicion naturally falls on the old man’s young widow, fifty years his junior. But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward, fiancé of the late millionaire’s granddaughter.
276 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1,1949
This edition
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276 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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August 19, 2002 by Minotaur Books
- ISBN
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9780312981662
- ASIN
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031298166X
- Language
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English
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Charles Hayward
Five foot eleven, brown hair, brown eyes, works in the Diplomatic Service. Fiancé to Sophia Leonides; met her when she was about 22 working in one of the Foreign Office department in Egypt. Narrator of the story....
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Sophia Leonides
Daughter of Magda and Philip Leonides, granddaughter of Aristide. She lives in a house built by her grandfather called the Three Gables in Swinly Dean with her family and relatives. Charless fiancée. Efficient, extremely easy to look at and has a cl...
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Josephine Leonides
12-year-old, second daughter of Magda and Philip Leonides. Likes to listen at doors and plays detective....
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Edith De Haviland
Sophias elderly spinster great-aunt, sister of Aristide Leonides first wife, Marcia. About seventy, has a mass of untidy grey hair, a weather beaten face and a shrewd and piercing glance. When her sister died leaving seven children, Aristide a...
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Chief Inspector Taverner
In charge of the case of Aristide Leonides sudden death.more...
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Brenda Leonides
Aristides second wife. Married Aristide when she was twenty four and he was seventy five. Good looking in an anaemic, apathetic sort of way, difficult to read her thought, very quiet, likes living soft, sitting about, eating sweets and having nice c...
About the author
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)
