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Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at learners of English. Lymstock is a small town with lots of secrets. Recently several people in the town have received anonymous hate-mail. When Mrs Symmington receives one of the letters and then dies in mysterious circumstances, the people of the town no longer know whom they can trust. Who is writing the letters? And why? Miss Marple helps solve the mystery.
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Agatha Christie
5,805 books76.2k followersAgatha 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)
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)
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June 8, 2023
Abridged text + audio for English learners.
February 26, 2020
I might have found this disappointing because I listened to the abridged version, but overall it wasn't as convoluted as I have grown to expect from Dame Agatha Christie.
Hopefully, the next mystery I choose will be better.
Hopefully, the next mystery I choose will be better.
January 17, 2019
3,5* i really liked the story but i was really confused about the characters. I couldn’t understand who was who.
November 9, 2018
This book is my all time favorite Agatha Christie's
June 6, 2017
What I love from most of Agatha's novels I've read so far is that thrilling sensation when you are deep into the whole mistery and desperately crave for answers. Some of them may be more enjoyable than the rest but that feeling is very likely to stay. And that's what keeps me wanting to read as much of her works as possible.
This time I would've preferred to get more of Miss Marple and all her characteristic unstoppable passion for crime, though. As a narrator, Jerry was pretty okay, still he's not topping the elderly woman's charm at all.
/---spoilers ahead---/
I'm not buying the light romance either, nope. Megan suddenly becomes "your woman" when you have been addressing her as a child during 80% of the book? Right, he considered Megan more mature than the rest of the villagers did, yet the love dynamic felt forced to me. Thanks but no thanks. Was I the only one confused thinking Jerry was at least a lot older than her, and later felt tricked about him being actually just a few years older but not too many?
Aside from that issue, I appreciated both Joanna and Megan. In fact, I end up getting a little attached to female characters in Agatha's books, since she includes them in a wide age variety.
About the plot, it turned out being addictive and it's always entertaining trying to guess who the killer was without having an actual clue 'til the very end. I don't know why but I left the husband out when it made a lot more sense than suspecting Megan or the governess. Christie manages to mislead me every time. xD
This time I would've preferred to get more of Miss Marple and all her characteristic unstoppable passion for crime, though. As a narrator, Jerry was pretty okay, still he's not topping the elderly woman's charm at all.
/---spoilers ahead---/
I'm not buying the light romance either, nope. Megan suddenly becomes "your woman" when you have been addressing her as a child during 80% of the book? Right, he considered Megan more mature than the rest of the villagers did, yet the love dynamic felt forced to me. Thanks but no thanks. Was I the only one confused thinking Jerry was at least a lot older than her, and later felt tricked about him being actually just a few years older but not too many?
Aside from that issue, I appreciated both Joanna and Megan. In fact, I end up getting a little attached to female characters in Agatha's books, since she includes them in a wide age variety.
About the plot, it turned out being addictive and it's always entertaining trying to guess who the killer was without having an actual clue 'til the very end. I don't know why but I left the husband out when it made a lot more sense than suspecting Megan or the governess. Christie manages to mislead me every time. xD
March 12, 2022
Miss Marple comes in very late in this book and is charming and intelligent as always, so at first I thought, she could have written this as a short story: said there were a bunch of poison pen letters and then X happened, but it was better al a full length book because the reader gets to know everyone first. A very entertaining read.
April 26, 2019
Great story!
October 8, 2019
Very confusing...
January 21, 2020
Great fun! Nice weekend read!
October 25, 2021
This was much better than the other audiobook I read
May 15, 2019
3.75
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