The Agatha Christie Audio Boxed Set: The Mystery of the Blue Train / Murder on the Orient Express / Death on the Nile

by Agatha Christie, Dramatization (Reader)

Book by Christie, Agatha

Genres: Agatha Christie, Mystery, Historical Fiction

Audio Cassette

First published January 1, 1927

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)

Reviews

[C.A. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not the best of Christie, but not the worst either. In this one Poirot is hired by a wealthy american to find out who murdered his daughter and stold the very expensive, and rare, ruby neckless he recently gave her. There are no shortage of suspects, but this being Christie, the obvious solution is not the right one. I have to say that while I enjoyed the story, the father sort of game me the creeps.

[Campbell Thompson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wasn’t super into this book and it wasn’t my favorite, until the second-to-last chapter where everything is explained. This chapter really puts into perspective how complex the murder was and how clever Hercule Poirot is. Will probably come back and do another Agatha Christie bc she rlly is the queen of mystery.

[P.J. · Rating 4 out of 5]

A friend recomended to me Agatha Christie for a good old classic crime novel. I just started Murder on the Orient Express and can see that i am in for a world of (who done it's) I personally have never read anything by her before and always said i was going too.

[Trina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Absolutely loved Death on the Nile. So wonderfully plotted.

[Gelockt · Rating 5 out of 5]

I grew up reading Agahta Christie. Hercule Poirot is my favourite of all her detectives. The little Belgian man really knows how to work those grey cells of his :)

[C · Rating 5 out of 5]

Death on the Nile alongside the Murder on the OE, indeed some of the best mystery thrillers ever written!