Book description
A young woman investigates an accidental death at a London tube
station, and finds herself of a ship bound for South Africa…
Pretty, young Anne came to London looking for adventure. In fact,
adventure comes looking for her - and finds her immediately at Hyde Park
Corner tube station. Anne is present on the platform when a thin man,
reeking of mothballs, loses his balance and is electocuted on the rails.
The Scotland Yard verdict is accidental death. But Anne is not satisfied.
After all, who was the man in the brown suit who examined the body? And
why did he race off, leaving a cryptic message behind: '17-122 Kilmorden
Castle'? 'The acknowledged queen of detective fiction the world over'
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 44 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.
