Agatha Christie 9 : les années 1949-1953

by Agatha Christie

Six romans dans une nouvelle traduction intégrale.

Eclectique : c’est le qualificatif qui s’impose à nous pour désigner la grande dame du crime dans ses oeuvres de 1949 à 1953.
Diversifiant ses sources d’inspiration, la voici en Irak, où elle flirte avec le roman d’espionnage, un genre dans lequel elle excelle, de Rendez-vous à Bagdad à Passager pour Francfort ou Destination inconnue.
Mais Agatha Christie n’abandonne pas pour autant ses deux limiers favoris : voici miss Marple plongée au cœur d’une institution psychiatrique, où les miroirs multiplient de curieux Jeux de glaces… tandis qu’Hercule Poirot se voit obligé de goûter les charmes d’une pension de famille en désordre pour découvrir pourquoi Mrs McGinty est morte…

Contient :
- Trois souris
- Un meurtre sera commis le…
- Rendez-vous à Bagdad
- Mrs McGinty est morte
- Jeux de glaces
- Les indiscretions d'Hercule Poirot

1204 pages, Hardcover

First published January 24, 1996

About the author

Agatha 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)

Reviews

[Cloé · Rating 3 out of 5]

Certaines histoires sont bonnes, d'autres moins. Les Indiscrétions d'Hercule Poirot était la meilleure à mon avis