內容簡介
The new look series of Hercule Poirot books for the 21st Century. The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara , Nurse Craven, Colonel Luttrell and his charming wife, Daisy, and the charismatic Boyd-Carrington. So Hastings was shocked to learn from Hercule Poirot's declaration that one of them was a five-times murderer. True, the ageing det
ective was crippled with arthritis, but had hisdeductiveinstincts finallydesertedhim?...
中文簡介
一個嶄新的面貌出現一系列赫丘勒·波洛圖書給二十一號世紀。這房子看上去完全客人愉快的風格黑斯廷斯船長,有自己的女兒朱迪絲,一個穩重的鳥類學家稱為諾頓先生Allerton醜、脆性錯過科爾,富蘭克林博士和他的脆弱的妻子芭芭拉,護士膽小鬼,魯特瑞爾上校和他的迷人的妻子,黛西,Boyd-Carrington魅力。所以哈斯丁斯嚇得學習赫丘勒·波洛的宣言,其中有一個five-times兇手。真的,老化的偵探陷於癱瘓,關節炎,但是他最終拋棄了他演繹本能嗎?…
作者簡介
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.
阿加莎·克里斯蒂被譽為舉世公認的偵探推理小說女王。她的著作英文版銷售量逾10億冊，而且還被譯成百餘種文字，銷售量亦逾10億冊。她一生創作了80偵深小說和短篇故事集，19部劇本，以及6部以瑪麗·維斯特麥考特的筆名出版的小說。著作數量之豐僅次於莎士比亞。
阿加莎·克里斯的第一部小說《斯泰爾斯莊園奇案》寫於第一次世界大戰末，戰時她擔任志願救護隊員。在這部小說中她塑造了一個可愛的小個子比利時偵探赫爾克里·波洛，成為繼福爾摩斯之後偵探小說中最愛讀者歡迎的偵探形象。1926年，阿加莎·克里斯蒂寫出了自己的成名作《羅傑疑案》（又譯作《羅傑·艾克羅伊德謀殺案》）。1952年她最著名的劇本《捕鼠器》被搬上舞台，此後連續上演，時間之長久，創下了世界戲劇史上空前的紀錄。
1971年，阿加莎·克里斯蒂獲得英國女王冊封的女爵士封號。1975年，英格麗·褒曼憑藉根據阿加莎同名小說《東方快車謀殺案》改編的影片獲得了第三座奧斯卡獎盃。阿加莎數以億計的仰慕者中不乏顯赫的人物，其中包括女王伊莉莎白二世和法國總統戴高樂。
1976年，她以85歲高齡永別了熱愛她的人們。
媒體評論
“一流的克里斯蒂:快速、複雜性、收集有趣的"
——Time
“精湛、年份克里斯蒂”
——星期天表達
