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Why Didn't They Ask Evans? / The A.B.C. Murders
This book is a double story collection from the Collected Works of Agatha Christie by Heron Books - The stories are "WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS" and "THE A.B.C. MURDERS". Beautiful hardback with red leather-like boards with gold embellishments. Illustrated by Patrick Couratin and Sylvie Dausset. Printed in England. There is an attached yellow ribbon placeholder.
502 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1977
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Agatha Christie
5,631 books74.2k followersAgatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.
This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater.
Associated Names:
Agata Christie
Agata Kristi
Агата Кристи (Russian)
Агата Крісті (Ukrainian)
Αγκάθα Κρίστι (Greek)
アガサ クリスティ (Japanese)
阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂 (Chinese)
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.
This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater.
Associated Names:
Agata Christie
Agata Kristi
Агата Кристи (Russian)
Агата Крісті (Ukrainian)
Αγκάθα Κρίστι (Greek)
アガサ クリスティ (Japanese)
阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂 (Chinese)
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July 11, 2015
It has dangerous moments but is told with a light hand, so that our sleuths never really seem like they could fail. To some this might be an annoyance, to me it is sometimes nice to feel you can totally depend on the author to protect their characters while writing an enjoyable story.
One of the things I really enjoy about Frankie and Bobby (our heroic duo) is how delightfully dense they sometimes prove to be. And why wouldn't they be? They stumbled upon a mystery and have no real idea of how to go about things other than what they've gleaned from detective stories. It'd be like you or I trying to go undercover and solve a crime.
Anyway, of course there's a couple who are friends but are destined to be more. There's a beautiful woman in need of help, and the plucky heroine has nothing but disdain for her. There's quite a few potential bad guys, and when the question is finally asked and answered there is a wonderful sense of adventure (I had an actual shiver when the question was asked, "Why didn't they ask Evans?", knowing that the answer was just a few sentences away).
In other words, this is another classically good Agatha Christie mystery (there's a sentence about how nobody looks at chauffeurs the way they look at regular people, so there's a bit of good old fashioned class based rudeness as well). It's lighthearted with some serious moments and instances of danger, and the solution is brilliants as always. I encourage you to read it. If not this one, one of the many other's she's left for us to enjoy.
One of the things I really enjoy about Frankie and Bobby (our heroic duo) is how delightfully dense they sometimes prove to be. And why wouldn't they be? They stumbled upon a mystery and have no real idea of how to go about things other than what they've gleaned from detective stories. It'd be like you or I trying to go undercover and solve a crime.
Anyway, of course there's a couple who are friends but are destined to be more. There's a beautiful woman in need of help, and the plucky heroine has nothing but disdain for her. There's quite a few potential bad guys, and when the question is finally asked and answered there is a wonderful sense of adventure (I had an actual shiver when the question was asked, "Why didn't they ask Evans?", knowing that the answer was just a few sentences away).
In other words, this is another classically good Agatha Christie mystery (there's a sentence about how nobody looks at chauffeurs the way they look at regular people, so there's a bit of good old fashioned class based rudeness as well). It's lighthearted with some serious moments and instances of danger, and the solution is brilliants as always. I encourage you to read it. If not this one, one of the many other's she's left for us to enjoy.
November 3, 2018
Audiobook performed by E. Fox. Oh, Nancy Drew!🎼
September 13, 2013
'Evans' started off well, but progressed far too quickly. A lot of the scenarios were improbable and Frankie and Bobby both seemed incompetent. Searching for a murderer is not child's play, but was what the author made it sound like. The ending especially disappointed me as she rushed to tie up loose ends.
'ABC,' too, started well, but already seems improbable. All the right witnesses at all the right times. Agatha Christie's stories all end in a way I dislike. The ending is not alluded to whatsoever and comes completely out of the blue. It becomes difficult to follow and is disappointing. In reality these cases would take months if not years to wrap up.
If not for the ending I would have given this a four, but it is still quite the page turner.
'ABC,' too, started well, but already seems improbable. All the right witnesses at all the right times. Agatha Christie's stories all end in a way I dislike. The ending is not alluded to whatsoever and comes completely out of the blue. It becomes difficult to follow and is disappointing. In reality these cases would take months if not years to wrap up.
If not for the ending I would have given this a four, but it is still quite the page turner.
December 28, 2015
This is an excellent murder mystery! I really enjoyed it!
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