This ebook collection contains the following works of Agatha Christie :The Mysterious Affair At StylesThe Secret AdversaryThe Murder On The LinksThe Man in the Brown SuitThe Secret of ChimneysThe Murder of Roger AckroydThe Big FourThe Jewel Robbery at the Grand MetropolitanThe Disappearance of Mr. DavenheimThe Adventure of the “Western Star”The Tragedy at Marsdon ManorThe Million Dollar Bond RobberyThe Adventure of the Cheap FlatThe Mystery of the Hunter’s LodgeThe Kidnapped Prime MinisterThe Adventure of the Egyptian TombThe Adventure of the Italian NoblemanThe Case of the Missing WillThe Chocolate BoxThe Veiled LadyThe Lost MineThe Affair at the Victory BallThe Adventure of the Clapham CookThe Cornish MysteryThe Adventure of Johnnie WaverlyThe Double ClueThe King of ClubsThe Lemesurier InheritanceThe Plymouth ExpressThe Submarine PlansThe Market Basing Mystery
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.
To continue my decembering I turned to something familiar and old school - my childhood favourite - Agatha Christie.
Sadly, this is far from a complete collection (if one were to exist it would probably run into hundreds of thousands of pages given how prolific Christie was). Furthermore, other than The Mysterious Affair At Styles (in which, if I'm not mistaken, the world first met the only and only Hercule Poirot) and a couple of short stories, her worst works are featured here. Really don't bother reading this.
Word to the wise - the Kindle formatting is awful.
Hercule Poirot and his many stories all in one place! Quick short stories that leaves you dumbfounded that you could not have seen the solution to the crime before the master Poirot explained the happenings. Great little reads to keep you occupied for 10 to whatever amount of time you have. Highly recommended for any Hercule Poirot fan!
Hercule Poirot is always delightful. The little gray cells doing their job as always. I never tire of Agatha Christie. She certainly was a creative mystery writer and you can still see her influence in many writers today.
I've read all of the novels and short stories in this collection before, but I'm on a bit of a Christie kick, and this was included in Kindle Unlimited, so I read them all again. The short stories are a little uneven, but she was the master, and the plotting throughout is exemplary.