Quatro casos clássicos: Tragédia em Três Atos, Cipreste Triste, Morte na Praia, A Mansão Hollow

by Agatha Christie

Poirot: Quatro Casos Clássicos - Os anos 30 e 40 foram tempos perigosos e violentos. Às vésperas, durante ou logo depois da Segunda Guerra Mundial, aonde quer que fosse, Hercule Poirot – o célebre detetive belga – era levado a investigar os mais traiçoeiros casos de assassinato... para a delícia dos leitores de Agatha Christie. Este volume reúne quatro dos mais instigantes e famosos casos de Poirot, emblemáticos da era dourada das histórias de detetive durante a qual Christie se consolidou como a maior autora de romances policiais de todos os tempos.

744 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

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)