基本信息出版社：HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
页码：224 页
出版日期：2002年04月
ISBN：0007120893
条形码：9780007120895
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Poirot

内容简介 A dentist lies murdered at his Harley Street practice...The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung right hand. Later, one of his patients was found dead from a lethal dose of local anaesthetic. A clear case of murder and suicide. But why would a dentist commit a crime in the middle of a busy day of appointments? A shoe buckle holds the key to the mystery. Now -- in the words of the rhyme -- can Poirot pick up the sticks and lay them straight?
作者简介 Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. 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. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign languages. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.
编辑推荐 Review
"The Empress of the crime novel" Daily Express 'A swift course of unflagging suspense leads to complete surprise.' New York Times

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This is major Christie. (New York Herald Tribune) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.