Book description
A ruthless international cartel seeks world domination…
Framed in the doorway of Poirot's bedroom stood an uninvited guest,
coated from head to foot in dust. The man's gaunt face stared for a
moment, then he swayed and fell.
Who was he? Was he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all,
what was the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again
on a sheet of paper? Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of
international intrigue, risking his life to uncover the truth about
'Number Four'. “The acknowledged queen of detective fiction.”
Observer Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite
simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The
Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World
War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular
detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known
throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a
billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100
foreign languages. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story
collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.
