Book description
A man is shot at in a juvenile reform home - but someone else dies…
Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in a
Victorian mansion which doubles as a rehabilitiation centre for
delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when a youth fires a revolver at
the administrator, Lewis Serrocold. Neither is injured. But a mysterious
visitor, Mr Gilbrandsen, is less fortunate - shot dead simultaneously in
another part of the building.
Pure coincidence? Miss Marple thinks not, and vows to discover the real
reason for Mr Gilbrandsen's visit. 'Brilliant'
Guardian
'No one on either side of the Atlantic does it better'
New York Times 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.
