內容簡介
A frightened adolescent brings Hercule Poirot one of the most challenging cases of his long and brilliant career. A killer is terrorizing a famous school for girls; an unsuspecting student has become a magnet for evil and death.
The trouble started in a palace in Ramat when Prince Ali Yusaf gave a packet of jewels to his private pilot, Bob Rawlinson, in the hope that he could smuggle them to England. Long before the packet reached its destination, Prince Ali and Bob were dead, their attempt to escape a coup d'etat a failure. Several groups of people wanted the packet, and some of them jumped to the conclusion that Bob had hidden it in his sister's or his young niece's luggage. To the predators, murder was a small price for jewels worth a million pounds.
This story of intrigue and murder is Agatha Christie at her very best. The reader is cunningly lead down a trail of violence, bypassing the expected, to arrive at a set of stunning surprises when the astute Belgian detective separates the guilty from the innocent and, unmasking the killer "cat," ends a nightmare of horror.。
作者簡介
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay, Devonshire, England, on September 15,1890. When she died on January 12, 1976, at the age of 85, she left behind a rich legacy of works of fiction and nonfiction: 66 mystery novels, 13 short-story collections, a book of poems, a volume of Christmas verse and stories, and her autobiography.
In addition to her success as a best-selling novelist, Agatha Christie also wrote plays, many of which were original and a number of which were based on her novels and short stories.The Mousetrap,based on the short story "The Blind Mice," holds the record for the longest-running play in the history of the modern theatre.
With her works appearing in 103 languages around the world, and her sales exceeding 500 million copies, Dame Agatha Christie continues to be one of the world's best-loved and most widely read writers of all time.。
