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Agatha Christie Crime Collection: The Mysterious Affair at Styles / Ten Little Niggers / Dumb Witness
THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES: the first ever novel by Agatha Christie, introducing Hercule Poirot and his friend Captain Hastings. Recently, there had been some strange goings on at Styles St Mary. Evelyn, constant companion to old Mrs Inglethorp, had stormed out of the house muttering something about 'a lot of sharks'. And with her, something indefinable had gone from the atmosphere. Her presence had spelt security; now the air seemed rife with suspicion and impending evil. A shattered coffee cup, a splash of candle grease, a bed of begonias are all Poirot requires to display his now legendary powers of detection.
TEN LITTLE NIGGERS (later renamed to And Then There Were None and/or Ten Little Indians): Agatha Christie's world-famous mystery thriller. Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U.N.Owen. Over dinner, a record begins to play, and the voice of an unseen host accuses each person of hiding a guilty secret. That evening, former reckless driver Tony Marston is found murdered by a deadly dose of cyanide. The tension escalates as the survivors realise the killer is not only among them but is preparing to strike again! and again!
DUMB WITNESS: Everyone blamed Miss Emily's accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her. On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously he didn't receive the letter until June 28th ... by which time Miss Emily was dead ...
TEN LITTLE NIGGERS (later renamed to And Then There Were None and/or Ten Little Indians): Agatha Christie's world-famous mystery thriller. Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U.N.Owen. Over dinner, a record begins to play, and the voice of an unseen host accuses each person of hiding a guilty secret. That evening, former reckless driver Tony Marston is found murdered by a deadly dose of cyanide. The tension escalates as the survivors realise the killer is not only among them but is preparing to strike again! and again!
DUMB WITNESS: Everyone blamed Miss Emily's accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her. On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously he didn't receive the letter until June 28th ... by which time Miss Emily was dead ...
512 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1970
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Agatha Christie
5,857 books76.3k followersAgatha 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)
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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December 29, 2021
Was fun but not that much i mean it's hard to Understanding the story
May 17, 2024
4.5 προς τα πανω για το εξαιρετικο σασπενς.
June 5, 2022
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles : 8/10 : read 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2022
Dumb Witness : 8/10 : read 2011, 2014, 2016
Ten Little Niggers : 8/10 : read 2011, 2014, 2016
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Read again for the English Mysteries Club June Read & Turn of a Page's A Day at the Fair Challenge. It is our first introduction to Poirot & Christie's first published novel (1920). It is simple & clever, & the language is delightful. A very enjoyable read.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles : 8/10 : read 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2022
Dumb Witness : 8/10 : read 2011, 2014, 2016
Ten Little Niggers : 8/10 : read 2011, 2014, 2016
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Read again for the English Mysteries Club June Read & Turn of a Page's A Day at the Fair Challenge. It is our first introduction to Poirot & Christie's first published novel (1920). It is simple & clever, & the language is delightful. A very enjoyable read.
January 19, 2013
Solo leí Diez negritos. Muy interesante, la historia te atrapa, muy ingeniosa, un final realmente muy bueno, inesperado.
Me hizo acordar mucho a la serie Dexter, por el espíritu justiciero y a las películas de Juego Del Miedo, no digo por que porque seria tremendo spoiler. Se habrán inspirado en este libro?
Me hizo acordar mucho a la serie Dexter, por el espíritu justiciero y a las películas de Juego Del Miedo, no digo por que porque seria tremendo spoiler. Se habrán inspirado en este libro?
August 8, 2008
Agatha Christie is so great. Her books are all pretty formulaic, but entertaining enough that you can overlook it!
October 17, 2012
Ten Little Niggers....
April 17, 2013
Just read Ten Little Niggers. Best mistery novel I've ever read.
August 30, 2017
Would you stay in a house full of murderers?
June 10, 2010
Just Ten Little Niggers...
April 10, 2019
از بین کتابهای هیجان انگیز آگاتا، این یکی از بهترینهایی بوده که خوندم، تا دم آخر شما نمیتونید حدس بزنید که قاتل کیه و هی حدسهاتون دچار تغییر میشن.
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