Los Tres Grandes Detectives [The Three Great Detectives]

by Agatha Christie

Una antologia policial unica. Alrededor de tres de los mas grandes y famosos detectives de la novela policial se ha hecho esta antologia que presenta historias protagonizadas por Sherlock Holmes, un genio de la deduccion y precursor de la narracion policial moderna; por Hercules Poirot, la satirica creacion de Agatha Christie y el Padre Brown, el curita que aplica los dogmas religiosos a la solucion de crimenes. Todas estas son grandes historias, con un suspenso que no decae en ningun momento y con lo caracteristico de la gran novela detectivesca, de que el culpable es aquel de quien menos se sospechaba. Pero lo interesante de esta coleccion es la posibilidad de conocer a tres personalidades, quiza excentricas, pero bien humanas y que ponen un toque de humor a lo tragico que en ultimas es la novela de crimen y castigo. This work is a unique police anthology. This compilation has been formed around three of the biggest and most famous detectives of police novels. It presents stories led by Sherlock Holmes, a genius of the deduction and predecessor of the modern police story; by Hercules Poirot, the satirical creation of Agatha Christie; and Father Brown, the priest that applies religious dogmas to the solution of crimes. All these are big stories, with suspense that doesn't ever decay and with the characteristic of any great detective's novel, where the guilty party is that one that was least suspected. The interesting side of this collection is the possibility of knowing three personalities, probably eccentric, but very human, that lay a touch of humor to the tragedy which is, at last, what makes a novel of crime and punishment.

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Published July 17, 2006

About the author

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)