Agatha Christie's Detectives: Five Complete Novels (The Murder At The Vicarage, Dead Man's Folly, Sad Cypress, Towards Zero, N or M?)
by Agatha Christie
Superintendent Battle (Collections and Selections — Includes 5), Tommy and Tuppence (Collections and Selections — 3, includes), Miss Marple (Omnibus — Omnibus 1), Hercule Poirot (Collections and Selections — Omnibus 33,22)
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Contains five novels, The murder at the Vicarage, Dead Man's Folly, Sad Cypress, Towards Zero and N or M?Tags
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This review is for "Towards Zero" only. I have read the other four over the years, but may re-read them again. This was a Superintendent Battle book. We know early on in the book that a murder is being planned but we don't know by who or the victim. All the clues are cleverly placed. I admit I guess the wrong person. It was easy and enjoyable read.
DEAD MAN'S FOLLY
Hercules Poirot as usual is determined to use his little gray cells to solve the case
when the mock murder party turns into real life murder. Who better to have at your side than Poirot.
Hercules Poirot as usual is determined to use his little gray cells to solve the case
when the mock murder party turns into real life murder. Who better to have at your side than Poirot.
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One of the most successful and beloved writer of mystery stories, Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie was born in 1890 in Torquay, County Devon, England. She wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920, launching a literary career that spanned decades. In her lifetime, she authored 79 crime novels and a short story collection, 19 show more plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language with another billion in 44 foreign languages. Some of her most famous titles include Murder on the Orient Express, Mystery of the Blue Train, And Then There Were None, 13 at Dinner and The Sittaford Mystery. Noted for clever and surprising twists of plot, many of Christie's mysteries feature two unconventional fictional detectives named Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. Poirot, in particular, plays the hero of many of her works, including the classic, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and Curtain (1975), one of her last works in which the famed detective dies. Over the years, her travels took her to the Middle East where she met noted English archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan. They married in 1930. Christie accompanied Mallowan on annual expeditions to Iraq and Syria, which served as material for Murder in Mesopotamia (1930), Death on the Nile (1937), and Appointment with Death (1938). Christie's credits also include the plays, The Mousetrap and Witness for the Prosecution (1953; film 1957). Christie received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for 1954-1955 for Witness. She was also named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1971. Christie died in 1976. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Superintendent Battle
5 works (Collections and Selections — Includes 5)
Tommy and Tuppence
5 works (Collections and Selections — 3, includes)
Miss Marple
16 works (Omnibus — Omnibus 1)
Hercule Poirot
37 works (Collections and Selections — Omnibus 33,22)
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- Canonical title
- Agatha Christie's Detectives: Five Complete Novels (The Murder At The Vicarage, Dead Man's Folly, Sad Cypress, Towards Zero, N or M?) (The Murder At The Vicarage, Dead Man's Folly, Sad Cypress, Towards Zero, N or M?)
- Original title
- Agatha Christie's Detectives
- Alternate titles
- Wings Bestsellers
- Original publication date
- 1982
- People/Characters
- Hercule Poirot; Jane Marple; Superintendent Battle; Mr. Treves; Tommy Beresford; Tuppence Beresford (show all 7); Albert [Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries]
- Related movies
- The Murder at the Vicarage (1986 | IMDb); The Murder at the Vicarage (2004 | IMDb); Dead Man’s Folly (1986 | IMDb); L’heure zero (aka Towards Zero | 2007 | IMDb)
- Epigraph
- Sad Cypress: Come away, come away, death
And in sad cypress let me be laid;
Fly away, fly away, breath;
I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,
O prepare it!
My part of deat... (show all)h, no one so true
Did share it.
Shakespeare - Dedication
- Dead Man's Folly: To Humphrey and Peggie Trevelyan
To Robert Graves
Dear Robert
Since you are kind enough to say you like my stories. I venture to dedicate this book to you. All I ask is that you should sternly restrain your critical faculties (doubtless sharpened b... (show all)y your recent excesses in that line!) when reading it.
this is a story for your pleasure and NOT a candidate for Mr. Grave's literary pillory!
Your friend
Agatha Christie
Towards Zero: To Robert Graves - First words
- The Murder at the Vicarage: It is difficult to know quite where to begin this story, but I have fixed my choice on a certain Wednesday at luncheon at the Vicarage.
Murder at the Vicarage:
It is difficult to know quite where to begin this story, but I have fixed my choice on a certain Wednesday at luncheon at the Vicarage.
Dead Man's Folly: It was Miss Lemon, Poirot's efficient secretary, who took the telephone call.
Sad Cypress: "Elinor Katharine Carlisle."
Towards Zero: The group round the fireplace was nearly all composed of lawyers or those who had an interest in the law.
N or M?: Tommy Beresford removed his overcoat in the hall of the flat. - Quotations
- Come away, come away, death
And in sad cypress let me be laid;
Fly away, fly away, breath
I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
My should of white, stuck all with yew,
O prepare it!
My part of death, no one so t... (show all)rue
Did share it.
Shakespeare - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The Murder at the Vicarage: Really Miss Marple is rather a dear...
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)N or M?
We must do all we can to makeup to them for having such a dull time in this war...
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Dead Man's Folly: "There are some things one has to face quite alone..."
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Sad Cypress: "With you, she can be happy."
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Towards Zero: She said: "I shall never want to escape."
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)N or M?: "We must do all we can to make up to them for having such a dull time in this war..."
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