Hercule Poirot #35

Dead Man's Folly

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Hercule Poirot must unmask a devious killer when a mock murder mystery proves all too fatal in this Agatha Christie classic. Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well-known crime writer, agrees to organize their murder hunt. Despite weeks of meticulous planning at the last minute Ariadne calls her friend Hercule Poirot for his expert assistance. Instinctively she senses that something sinister is about to happen.

288 pages, Paperback

First published October 1,1956

This edition

Format
288 pages, Paperback
Published
January 1, 2008 by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
ISBN
9780007121076
ASIN
0007121075
Language
English
Characters More characters
  • Ariadne Oliver

    Ariadne Oliver

    Mrs. Oliver is a famous mystery novelist and a friend of both Hercule Poirot and Parker Pyne. She often assists them in their cases through her knowledge of the criminal mind. She claims to be endowed with particular "feminine intuition", but it usually l...

  • Miss Lemon
  • Hercule Poirot

    Hercule Poirot

    Hercule Poirot is one of Agatha Christies most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era. Poirots name was derived from two other fictional detectives ...

  • Sir George Stubbs

    Sir George Stubbs

    The owner of Nasse House....

  • Lady Hattle Stubbs

    Lady Hattle Stubbs

    Georges wife.more...

  • Miss Merdell

    Miss Merdell

    Georges secretary.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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