El espejo se rajó de parte a parte (Miss Marple, #9): La seguridad victoriana de su nueva casa no le proporcionará a la famosa actriz la paz —y mucho menos el olvido— cuando aquella mujer charlatana le dé la clave que buscó durante tantos años. ¿Puede una mujer aterrarse al mirar una bellísima madona renacentista? ¿Sólo esa mirada bastará para que miss Marple pueda recomponer un drama del pasado y aclarar los crímenes del presente? Un viejo poeta olvidado y sus versos pasados de moda guiarán a esa anciana dama de St. Mary Mead hacia la solución de un enigma que resultaba demasiado claro para ser verdad.
Tercera muchacha (Hercule Poirot, #35): Norma Restarick, la poco agraciada hija de un industrial londinense, se persona un día en casa de Hércules Poirot y le dice que cree haber cometido un asesinato. Antes de que el perplejo detective pueda reaccionar, la muchacha huye. Poirot decide investigar el caso, motivado por la secreta convicción de que la joven necesita desesperadamente su ayuda.
Primeros casos de Poirot (Hercule Poirot, #38): Un compendio de dieciocho relatos de las aventuras del famoso y peculiar detective belga.
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.