Produktdetails
- Verlag
- Harper Collins Publ. UK
- Erschienen
- 2003
- Sprache
- English
- Seiten
- 224
- Infos
- 224 Seiten
177 mm x 113 mm - ISBN
- 978-0-00-713683-4
Besprechung
'Agatha Christie's masterpiece.'
Spectator
'One of the very best, most genuinely bewildering Christies.'
Observer
'The most astonishingly impudent, ingenious and altogether successful mystery story since The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.'
Daily Herald
'One of the most ingenious thrillers in many a day.'
Time Magazine
'There is no doubt that this is a highly ingenious jigsaw by a master of puzzling.'
Books
'There is no cheating; the reader is just bamboozled in a straightforward way from first to last... The most colossal achievement of a colossal career. The book must rank with Mrs Christie's previous best - on the top notch of detection.'
New Statesman
'The whole thing is utterly impossible and utterly fascinating. It is the most baffling mystery Agatha Christie has ever written.'
New York Times
Kurztext / Annotation
Ein gespenstisches Wochenende auf einer kleinen Insel. Eingeladen hat der große Unbekannte - Gäste sind zehn Personen mit dunkler Vergangenheit. Sie halten Gericht über sich selbst, bis einer nach dem anderen nicht nur das Gesicht, sondern auch das Leben verliert.
Langtext
Agatha Christie's world-famous mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.
Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U.N.Owen. Over dinner, a record begins to play, and the voice of an unseen host accuses each person of hiding a guilty secret. That evening, former reckless driver Tony Marston is found murdered by a deadly dose of cyanide.
The tension escalates as the survivors realise the killer is not only among them but is preparing to strike again... and again...
Über den AutorIn
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.