Murder in the Manor : Murder at Hazelmoor | The Secret of Chimneys | The Seven Dials Mystery
by Agatha Christie
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Crooked house: Criminologist Charles Hayward becomes a special assistant to Scotland Yard when his fiancee's grandfather is murdered, and her entire family comes under suspicion. The first person narrator is Charles Hayward who, towards the end of the Second World War, occupies some post in Cairo. There he meets Sophia Leonides, who works for the Foreign Office there. They fall in love with each other but put off getting engaged until after the end of the war when they will be reunited back show more home in England. When Hayward arrives back home it is only to find an obituary in The Times: Sophia's grandfather, Aristide Leonides, has died, aged 87. Due to the war, the whole family has been living together under one roof, in a large house near London, among them Leonides' second wife, whom many in the family dislike and see as nothing more than a gold digger. When the news is broken that Aristide Leonides has been poisoned, via a diabetic injection, Charles is unwittingly drawn into the case. Ordeal by innocence: While serving a life sentence for killing his mother, Jacko Argyle dies. Two years later, a stranger shatters the peace of the Argyle household. Can Arthur Calgary provide the missing link in Jacko's defence? Was Jacko sentenced for a murder he didn't commit? show lessTags
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Three Agatha Christies collected in one thick tome that span almost thirty years. Per the jacket, Christie herself said, "Of my detective books, I think the two that satisfy me best are Crooked House and Ordeal by Innocence."
I reviewed them separately to avoid a novella length review.
"The Seven Dials Mystery." (1929) Review at http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/504811414
"Ordeal By Innocence." (1958) Review at http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/504811857
"Crooked House." (1949) Review at http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/504810987
I reviewed them separately to avoid a novella length review.
"The Seven Dials Mystery." (1929) Review at http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/504811414
"Ordeal By Innocence." (1958) Review at http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/504811857
"Crooked House." (1949) Review at http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/504810987
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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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- Murder in the Manor : Murder at Hazelmoor | The Secret of Chimneys | The Seven Dials Mystery
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- 1989 (collection) (collection); 1925 (The Secret of Chimneys) (The Secret of Chimneys); 1929 (The Seven Dials Mystery) (The Seven Dials Mystery); 1931 (Murder at Hazelmoor) (Murder at Hazelmoor)
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