Book description
An exotic holiday for Miss Marple is ruined when a retired major is killed…
As Jane Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine she felt mildly
discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here
in paradise nothing ever happened.
Eventually, her interest was aroused by an old soldier's yarn about a
strange coincidence. Infuriatingly, just as he was about to show her an
astonishing photograph, the Major's attention wandered. He never did
finished the story… 'Throws off the false clues and misleading events
as only a master of the art can do.' New York Times
'Liveliness… infectious zest… as good as anything Miss Christie has
done.' 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.
