Book description
Agatha Christie's audacious mystery thriller, reissued with a striking
cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie
fans and book lovers.
For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that
frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Helplessly, she stared out of
her carriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip around a
woman's throat. The body crumpled. Then the other train drew away.
But who, apart from Miss Marple, would take her story seriously? After
all, there were no suspects, no other witnesses… and no corpse. 'A
model detective story, there is never a dull moment.' The Times
'The suspense is agonising.' Daily Mail
'Miraculously fresh from a vintage pen.' Sunday Dispatch
'Without the female of the species, indeed, detective fiction would be
in a bad way. Miss Christie never harrows her readers, being content to
intrigue and amuse them.' Times Literary Supplement
'The great mistress of the last-minute switch is at it again… even the
experts have given up any attempts to out-guess Miss Christie.' New Yorker
'Precisely what one expects: the most delicious bamboozling possible in
a babble of bright talk and a comprehensive bristle of suspicion all
adeptly managed to keep you much too alert elsewhere to see the neat
succession of clues that catch a murderer we never so much as thought
of.' New York Herald Tribune 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 countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and
short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary
Westmacott.
