Given the circumstances it was no surprise that The Big Four remained one of Christie’s least favourite novels. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott. The novel was published only a few weeks after the eleven-day disappearance of Agatha Christie which sparked national interest, consequently causing The Big Four to be a sales hit. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign languages.
She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. About the authorĪgatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history.
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As the threat of world war looms large, Poirot seeks the help of friends both old and new when he is pitted against a dangerous group of dissidents responsible for a series of violent murders.
Who was he? Was he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what was the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper? Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigue, risking his life to uncover the truth about ‘Number Four’. With David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Pauline Moran, Philip Jackson. The man’s gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. A ruthless international cartel seeks world domination…įramed in the doorway of Poirot’s bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. Hugh Fraser, best known as Captain Hastings on the Mystery dramatizations of the Poirot novels, here does double duty as Hastings and the little Bel. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare.
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