The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie

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Dick Riley, Pam McAllister, Bruce Cassiday
A&C Black, 1 Sep 2001 - 384 halaman
Over 400,000 copies sold!

If you are a mystery buff, an Agatha Christie fan, an occasional Christie reader or an acquaintance of any of the above, this book is for you and all your fortunate friends

The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie, on the 25th anniversary of Agatha Christie's death, continues as a grand salute to the queen of mysteries. It is filled with wonderful and surprising things about her books, her characters, the movies and plays based on them, and Dame Agatha herself. Original contributions by some sixty writers celebrate the Christie touch. Take your pick among thse intriguing features and speculations:
-Surviving an English country weekend - if you had the advice of Hercule
Poirot
- A guide to the Christie poisions, as well as the cruder methods of genteel
mayhem
- The "other" Agatha Christie who wrote romantic novels
- A murder victim's (!) first-person account of a Christie Mystery Weekend
- The Hercule Poirot Double-Crostic and other puzzles

That's a taste. There's much more - and witty plot summaries of all Christie's novels, plays, and many of her short stories. (But no endings, of course!) This treasury is more than entertainment - it is also a personal reference work for Christie fans. And there are scores of movie posters, film stills, illustrations and a Christie mystery map, too.
 

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles 1928
33
CONTENTS
42
Murder at Hazelmoor 1931 suspicion inevitably falls first on the butler
48
A MACABRE TEA PARTY
55
Thirteen at Dinner 1933 by Phil Clendenen
63
Black Coffee 1934 by Helene Von Rosenstiel
69
Death on the Nile 1937 Agatha Christie
112
Appointment with Death 1938 romances into which she poured her intense
118
The Mousetrap and Other Stories
188
HERCULE POIROT 244 Double Sin and Other Stories
214
So Many Steps to Death 1954 by Michael Tennenbaum
222
Unexpected Guest 1958 by Granville Burgess
229
The Man in the Brown Suit 1924 by Dale G Copps
231
Ordeal by Innocence 1958
236
The Adventure of the Christmas by Edwin A Rollins
242
CONTENTS
273

YOU NEED LOOK
124
LIFE ON THE NILE by Cindy Loose 155 Towards Zero 1944
150
Remembered Death 1945 by John Sturman
166
There Is a Tide 1948 200 THE QUOTABLE CHRISTIE
173
A GUIDE TO MURDERS by Elizabeth Leese
180
By the Pricking of My Thumbs by Beth Simon
314
HE AND SHE by Bruce Cassiday
321
AGATHA IN THE EIGHTIES 345 AGATHA CHRISTIE MADE ME DO
334
JESSICA FLETCHER
340
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Dick Riley's novels and plays include collaboration on the best-selling Black Sunday (with Thomas Harris), Rite of Expiation, and the drama Middleman Out. He lives in White Plains, New York. Pam McAllister is the author of ten books, including three others in Continuum's Bedside, Bathtub &Armchair Companion series which she co-authored with Dick Riley, on Shakespeare (2001), Sherlock Holmes (1999), and Agatha Christie (1979). Her other books include Death Defying: Dismantling the Execution Machinery in 21st Century U.S.A. (Continuum, 2003) about ending capital punishment and two books about women's use of nonviolent action for social justice. In 1982, she edited the groundbreaking anthology Reweaving the Web of Life: Feminism and Nonviolence (New Society Publishers), which the Village Voice called "one of the most important books you'll ever read." She currently writes a column for The Progressive Christian magazine.

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