Book description
Agatha Christie's ingenious mystery thriller, reissued with a striking
cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie
fans and book lovers.
Lucy Angkatell invited Hercule Poirot to lunch. To tease the great
detective, her guests stage a mock murder beside the swimming pool.
Unfortunately, the victim plays the scene for real. As his blood drips
into the water, John Christow gasps one final word: 'Henrietta'. In the
confusion, a gun sinks to the bottom of the pool.
Poirot's enquiries reveal a complex web of romantic attachments. It
seems everyone in the drama is a suspect - and each a victim of love.
“A grade-A plot - the best Christie in years”
San Francisco Chronicle 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.
