Book description
A wealthy Greek businessman is found dead at his London home…
The Leonides were one big happy family living in a sprawling,
ramshackle mansion. That was until the head of the household, Aristide,
was murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection.
Suspicion naturally falls on the old man's young widow, fifty years his
junior. But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles
Hayward, fiance of the late millionare's granddaughter… 'Writing
Crooked House was pure pleasure and I feel justified in my belief that
it is one of my best.'
Agatha Christie
'Her sleight of hand is impeccable.'
New Statesman
'Knock-out!'
Saturday Review of Literature 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 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.
