Reviews"thoughtful and entertaining...highly useful...achieves its goal"-- Booklist ; "may be the most thorough guide to the 60 novels published between 1920 and 1976...provides thoughtful and helpful commentary"-- ARBA ; "a very worthwhile book for...a good encyclopedic introduction to the world of this most prolific and well loved crime author"-- Reference Reviews ; "excellent"-- GAdetection ; "the writing is lively, the author's enthusiasm infectious"-- Mystery Scene.
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Table Of ContentTable of Contents Preface Introduction The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) The Secret Adversary (1922) Murder on the Links (1923) The Man in the Brown Suit (1924) The Secret of Chimneys (1925) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) The Big Four (1927) The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928) The Seven Dials Mystery (1929) Summary for the 1920s Murder at the Vicarage (1930) Murder at Hazelmoor (1931) Peril at End House (1932) Thirteen at Dinner (1933) The Boomerang Clue (1934) Murder in the Calais Coach (1934) Murder in Three Acts (1935) Death in the Air (1935) The A.B.C. Murders (1935) Murder in Mesopotamia (1936) Cards on the Table (1936) Death on the Nile (1937) Poirot Loses a Client (1937) Appointment with Death (1938) A Holiday for Murder (1938) Easy to Kill (1939) And Then There Were None (1939) Summary for the 1930s Sad Cypress (1940) The Patriotic Murders (1940) Evil Under the Sun (1941) N or M? (1941) The Body in the Library (1942) The Moving Finger (1942) Murder in Retrospect (1943) Towards Zero (1944) Death Comes as the End (1945) Remembered Death (1945) Murder After Hours (1946) There Is a Tide (1948) Crooked House (1949 ) Summary for the 1940s A Murder Is Announced(1950) They Came to Baghdad (1951) Mrs. McGinty''s Dead (1952) Murder with Mirrors (1952) A Pocket Full of Rye (1953) Funerals Are Fatal (1953) So Many Steps to Death (1954) Hickory, Dickory, Death (1955) Dead Man''s Folly (1956) What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw (1957) Ordeal by Innocence (1958) Cat Among the Pigeons (1959) Summary for the 1950s The Pale Horse (1961) The Mirror Crack''d (1962) The Clocks (1963) A Caribbean Mystery (1964) At Bertram''s Hotel (1965) Third Girl (1966) Endless Night (1967) By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968) Hallowe''en Party (1969) Summary for the 1960s Passenger to Frankfurt (1970) Nemesis (1971) Elephants Can Remember (1972) Postern of Fate (1974) Curtain (1975) Sleeping Murder (1976) Summary for the 1970s Appendix: British Expressions Title and Character Index Subject Index
SynopsisThe most popular mystery writer of all time concocted a rich recipe of intrigue, character, and setting. All of Agatha Christie's 66 detective novels are covered here in great detail. Each chapter begins with general comments on a novel's geographical and historical setting, identifying current events, fashions, fads and popular interests that relate to the story. A concise plot summary and comprehensive character listing follow, and each novel is discussed within Christie's overall body of work, with an emphasis on the development of themes, narrative technique, and characters over the course of her prolific career. An appendix translates Poirot's French and defines the British idiomatic words and phrases that give Christie's novels so much of their flavor., Covers Agatha Christie's 66 detective novels. This book offers a plot summary and comprehensive character listing, and discusses the novels within Christie's overall body of work, with an emphasis on the development of themes, narrative technique, and characters over the course of her prolific career., The most popular mystery writer of all time concocted a rich recipe of intrigue, character, and setting. All of Agatha Christie s 66 detective novels are covered here in great detail. Each chapter begins with general comments on a novel s geographical and historical setting, identifying current events, fashions, fads and popular interests that relate to the story. A concise plot summary and comprehensive character listing follow, and each novel is discussed within Christie s overall body of work, with an emphasis on the development of themes, narrative technique, and characters over the course of her prolific career. An appendix translates Poirot s French and defines the British idiomatic words and phrases that give Christie s novels so much of their flavor."