e-artnow present this unique edition of the greatest Hercule Poirot's detective The Mysterious Affair at Styles The Murder on the Links The Affair at the Victory Ball Mrs Opalsen's Pearls (The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan) The Adventure of the Clapham Cook The Cornish Mystery The Double Clue The Lost Mine The Kidnapping of Johnnie Waverly The King of Clubs The Lemesurier Inheritance The Mystery of the Plymouth Express The Chocolate Box The Case of the Veiled Lady The Submarine Plans The Market Basing Mystery The Western Star The Marsdon Manor Tragedy The Adventure of the Cheap Flat The Hunter's Lodge Case (The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge) The Million Dollar Bond Robbery The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb The Kidnapped Prime Minister The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman The Case of the Missing Will The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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.
I listened to this in audiobook. I enjoyed the variety of short stories. Some stories were a bit stronger than others but if you’re looking for a compilation of Christie mysteries, this is a good place to start. David Suchet and Hugh Fraser did much of the narration, one slight challenge was that Suchet accent at times was too strong . I am so used to seeing him portray the character on TV that I had to get used to listening to the narration.
Entertaining. As short stories the case and the characterizations of the novels are cut down and the solution is usually abrupt. Contains the story of Poirot’s only “failure.”