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Agatha Christie Crime Collection: Cards On The Table/ N Or M?/A Murder Is Announced
A Collection of three Agatha Christie stories featuring characters Tommy and Tuppence Beresford of Partners In Crime and Christie Mainstays Miss Marple And Hercule Poirot.
- GenresFiction
514 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1981
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Agatha Christie
5,794 books76.1k 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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January 27, 2025
Read cards on the table - great read but I have no concept of how a bridge is played so I had to miss a big chunk of the story.
February 7, 2017
Found a couple of Christies that I hadn't read before. Quite a treat! N or M was particularly good and out of her ordinary style.
September 26, 2021
book 25/26/27
cards on the table - a brilliant tale - perhaps similar to sherlock holmes the incident of the dog in the night where the dog did not howl in the night…
(difficult to really appreciate if you have no idea the concept of bridge) but how a Mephistophelian man (Mr. Shaitana) was murdered in his own him during his own dinner party WITH Hercule Poiroit in attendance and still it was a mighty difficult case as to who stabbed him with the little jeweled pin
“stupidity - a sin that is never forgiven and always punished”
why did christie make mrs. oliver the crime author in the book so annoying? is this a reflection of how she sees herself or is she more represented by Hercule P?
cards on the table = playing fair
N or M? - Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are veteran spies from WW1 who are find themselves in a small town trying to figure out who N or M are - apparent Nazi masterminds trying to land in a small cove and take over England from there. Love the love between Tommy and Tuppence and how strong-willed of a woman she was. As always Christie makes you speculate that things aren’t what they seem but only until the last moment does she make it clear. Her writing is miraculous in how the characters seem to open up beneath our noses and the element of surprise is never far off! Remember a mother with a child could in fact be the spy…
a murder announced - my first intro to miss marple and omg peak detective work areher impersonations the ending was AMAAAAAZING
cards on the table - a brilliant tale - perhaps similar to sherlock holmes the incident of the dog in the night where the dog did not howl in the night…
(difficult to really appreciate if you have no idea the concept of bridge) but how a Mephistophelian man (Mr. Shaitana) was murdered in his own him during his own dinner party WITH Hercule Poiroit in attendance and still it was a mighty difficult case as to who stabbed him with the little jeweled pin
“stupidity - a sin that is never forgiven and always punished”
why did christie make mrs. oliver the crime author in the book so annoying? is this a reflection of how she sees herself or is she more represented by Hercule P?
cards on the table = playing fair
N or M? - Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are veteran spies from WW1 who are find themselves in a small town trying to figure out who N or M are - apparent Nazi masterminds trying to land in a small cove and take over England from there. Love the love between Tommy and Tuppence and how strong-willed of a woman she was. As always Christie makes you speculate that things aren’t what they seem but only until the last moment does she make it clear. Her writing is miraculous in how the characters seem to open up beneath our noses and the element of surprise is never far off! Remember a mother with a child could in fact be the spy…
a murder announced - my first intro to miss marple and omg peak detective work areher impersonations the ending was AMAAAAAZING
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August 9, 2012
(Only reading A Murder is Announced - research!)
December 27, 2021
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Card son the Table : 8/10 : read 2011, 2014
N or M? : 8/10 : read 2009, 2014
A Murder is Announced : 9/10 : read 2009, 2014
Card son the Table : 8/10 : read 2011, 2014
N or M? : 8/10 : read 2009, 2014
A Murder is Announced : 9/10 : read 2009, 2014
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