Book description
A poisoning many years ago may not have been accidental after all…
Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an
old house in an English village. Along with the property, they have
inherited some worthless bric-a-brac, including a collection of antique
books. While rustling through a copy of The Black Arrow, Tuppence comes
upon a series of apparently random underlinings.
However, when she writes down the letters, they spell out a very
disturbing message:
M a r y - J o r d a n - d i d - n o t - d i e - n a t u r a l l y…
And sixty years after their first murder, Mary Jordan's enemies are
still ready to kill… 'The Beresfords are wonderfully revived. Smooth,
beautifully paced, and effortlessly convincing.'
New York Times
'Past and present interlock impressively… this is a genuine tour de force.'
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.
