50 Mystery and Detective masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

by Agatha Christie

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names

A Royal Prisoner [Marcel Allain]
The Man Who Knew Too Much,The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare [G.K Chesterton]
The Hound of the Baskervilles,The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle]
The Nebuly Coat [John Meade Falkner]
The Chestermarke Instinct,The Middle of Things,The Orange-Yellow Diamond,The Paradise Mystery [Joseph Smith Fletcher]
Helen Vardon's Confession,The Singing Bone{R. Austin Freeman]
File No.113, Monsieur Lecoq,The Lerouge Case,The Mystery of Orcival [Émile Gaboriau]
The Riddle of the Frozen Flame [Thomas W. Hanshew]
A Thief in the Night ,Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman, The Amateur Cracksman [Ernest William Hornung]
Malcolm Sage, Detective [Herbert George Jenkins]
The Room in the Dragon Volant, Wylder's Hand [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu]
The Stretton Street Affair [William Le Queux]
The Crystal Stopper [Maurice Leblanc]
The Voice in the Fog [Harold MacGrath]
Anderson Crow, Detective [George Barr McCutcheon]
Ashton-Kirk, Investigator [John T. McIntyre]
Martin Hewitt, Investigator, The Red Triangle [Arthur Morrison]
The Black Box [Edward Phillips Oppenheim]
The Burglar's Fate and The Detectives [Allan Pinkerton]
The Sleuth of St. James's Square [Melville Davisson Post]
The Hand in the Dark, The Shrieking Pit [Arthur John Rees]
More Tish, The Case of Jennie Brice [Mary Roberts Rinehart]
Bat Wing, The Hand of Fu-Manchu, The Quest of the Sacred Slipper, The Sins of Séverac Bablon [Sax Rohmer]
The Brand of Silence [Harrington Strong]
Number Seventeen,The Stowmarket Mystery,The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley [Louis Tracy]
The Lone Wolf [Louis Joseph Vance]
Raspberry Jam [Carolyn Wells]
The Mystery of the Barranca [Herman Whitaker]
Peter the Brazen [George F. Worts]
The Big Bow Mystery [Israel Zangwill]

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Published March 12, 2017

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

[Tony · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as good overall as volume 1, but still contains some great stories and books.

[Maureen S Downey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay, but I certainly do not think that all stories included are masterpieces.