A Caribbean Mystery

An exotic holiday for Miss Marple is ruined when a retired major is killed...

Informationen zum Autor Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott. Klappentext A Caribbean resortStrangers thrown togetherIs there evil in paradise? Major Palgrave enjoys an audience, and, in Miss Marple, he discovers a captive audience too polite to walk away. But midway through recounting the tale of a multiple murder, he stops suddenly when something, or someone, catches his eye. Then, when he's found dead the following day, Miss Marple suspects that someone wanted to silence the talkative major. Permanently. Never underestimate Miss Marple 'There's no such thing as a disappointing Agatha Christie: there are only good ones and better ones.' Naomi Alderman 'Livelieness . . . infectious zest . . . as good as anything Miss Christie has done.' Observer Zusammenfassung A Caribbean resort Strangers thrown together Is there evil in paradise?

Autorentext

Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.

Klappentext

A Caribbean resortStrangers thrown togetherIs there evil in paradise?Major Palgrave enjoys an audience, and, in Miss Marple, he discovers a captive audience too polite to walk away.

But midway through recounting the tale of a multiple murder, he stops suddenly when something, or someone, catches his eye.

Then, when he's found dead the following day, Miss Marple suspects that someone wanted to silence the talkative major. Permanently.

Never underestimate Miss Marple

'There's no such thing as a disappointing Agatha Christie: there are only good ones and better ones.'
Naomi Alderman

'Livelieness . . . infectious zest . . . as good as anything Miss Christie has done.'
Observer

Zusammenfassung
A Caribbean resort Strangers thrown together Is there evil in paradise?