HERCULE POIROT'S CASEBOOK
Agatha Christie is known throughout the world
as the Queen of Crime. Her seventy-six detective
novels and books of stories have been translated
into every major language, and her sales are
calculated
in tens of millions.
She began writing at the end of the First
World War, when she created Hercule Poirot,
the little Belgian detective with the egg-shaped
head and the passion for order - the most
popular sleuth in fiction since Sherlock Holmes.
Poirot, Miss Marple and her other detectives
have appeared in films, radio programmes,
television films and stage plays based on her
books.
Agatha Christie also wrote six romantic novels
under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, several
plays and a book of poems; as well, she assisted
her archaeologist.husband Sir Max Mallowan on
many expeditions to the Middle East. She was
awarded the DBE in 1971.
Postern of Fate was the last book she wrote
before her death in 1976, but since its
publication two books Agatha Christie wrote in
the 1940s have appeared: Curtain: Poirot's Last
Case and Sleeping Murder, the last Miss Marple
book.
Agatha Christie's Autobiography was
published by Fontana in 1978.
Available in Fontana by the same author
The ABC Murders
At Bertram's Hotel
The Body in the Library
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
The Clocks
Dead Man's Folly
Death Comes as the End
Destination Unknown
Elephants Can Remember
Endless Night
Evil Under the Sun
Hallowe'en Party
Hickory Dickory Dock
The Hollow
The Labours of Hercules
Lord Edgware Dies
The Moving Finger
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Murder in Mesopotamia
Murder is Easy
The Mysterious Mr Quin
The Mystery of the Blue Train
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
Parker Pyne Investigates
Partners in Crime
A Pocket Full of Rye
