Book description
A flamboyant party host is murdered in full view of a roomful of bridge players…
Mr Shaitana was famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he was
a man of whom everybody was a little afraid. So, when he boasted to
Poirot that he considered murder an art form, the detective had some
reservations about accepting a party invitation to view Shaitana's
private collection.
Indeed, what began as an absorbing evening of bridge was to turn into a
more dangerous game altogether… “The finest murder story of her
career… Mrs Christie has never been more ingenious”
Daily Mail 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.
