Book description
The ultimate introductory guide to Agatha Christie and her detectives,
including stories featuring Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Tommy & Tuppence.
Ever wondered how Agatha Christie became the world's best-selling
storyteller? Never read one even though you know someone who loves her?
Too bewildered by the choice of books to know where to start? Then CLUES
TO CHRISTIE could be the key that unlocks the door to a world of
mystery, thrills and romance that has captivated readers from 9 to 90
for the last 90 years.
With more than two billion book sales, Agatha Christie is the world's
best-selling novelist, translated into more languages than Shakespeare.
And with more than 100 books and plays to her name, and over 150 short
stories, it is no surprise that one-third of all fiction readers have
read an Agatha Christie, and millions have seen the films and TV series.
This exclusive eBook sampler includes a specially written introduction
by the award-winning author and world's foremost expert on Agatha
Christie, John Curran. Together with other useful and enlightening
material to help readers navigate the world of Agatha Christie, such as
reading lists, suggestions on different ways to read the books, a Poison
Primer, and an A to Z of characters, CLUES TO CHRISTIE also includes
three specimen stories by the Queen of Crime, to introduce her
world-famous detectives of Hercule Poirot, Jane Marple and Tommy &
Tuppence Beresford, and to help you decide which Agatha Christie books
you want to read next. Agatha Christie is known throughout the world
as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in
English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the
most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold
only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels
and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the
name of Mary Westmacott.
