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Agatha Christie
The ABC
Murders
Austėja Rimkevičiūtė IIIc
2011
Vytautas Magnus Gymnasium
Klaipėda
Agatha Christie
( 1890 – 1976 )
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born on15 September in 1890, in
Torquay, Devon, England. She was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections (especially those featuring Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple), and her successful West End plays.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly four billion copies, and her estate claims that her works rank third, after those of William Shakespeare and the Bible, as the most widely published books.
Her books have been translated into at least 103 languages.
The novel was adapted in 1992 for the television series Agatha Christie's Poirot with David Suchet playing the role of Hercule Poirot. The adaptation remains faithful to the novel, with some minor changes and characters omitted. In the end the murderer tries to escape while in the novel, he tries to commit suicide.
Agatha Christie died on 12 January 1976 at age 85 from natural causes at her Winterbrook House in the north of Cholsey parish, adjoining Wallingford in Oxfordshire.
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The ABC Murders
The A.B.C. Murders is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK.
This book is about unusual murders, which Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp have to detect. They got mysterious letters from killer, who wrote address where the murder will take place and also he left the book “The A.B.C. -railway guide” A was for Ascher. B was for Barnard. Hercule Poirot was forewarned. But it didn’t seem to matter. The letters of warning were signed “A.B.C.” And Poirot’s homicidal pen pal seemed well on his way to completing the alphabet with 24 more murders.
The ABC
Murders
Austėja Rimkevičiūtė IIIc
2011
Vytautas Magnus Gymnasium
Klaipėda
Agatha Christie
( 1890 – 1976 )
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born on15 September in 1890, in
Torquay, Devon, England. She was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections (especially those featuring Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple), and her successful West End plays.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly four billion copies, and her estate claims that her works rank third, after those of William Shakespeare and the Bible, as the most widely published books.
Her books have been translated into at least 103 languages.
The novel was adapted in 1992 for the television series Agatha Christie's Poirot with David Suchet playing the role of Hercule Poirot. The adaptation remains faithful to the novel, with some minor changes and characters omitted. In the end the murderer tries to escape while in the novel, he tries to commit suicide.
Agatha Christie died on 12 January 1976 at age 85 from natural causes at her Winterbrook House in the north of Cholsey parish, adjoining Wallingford in Oxfordshire.
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The ABC Murders
The A.B.C. Murders is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK.
This book is about unusual murders, which Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp have to detect. They got mysterious letters from killer, who wrote address where the murder will take place and also he left the book “The A.B.C. -railway guide” A was for Ascher. B was for Barnard. Hercule Poirot was forewarned. But it didn’t seem to matter. The letters of warning were signed “A.B.C.” And Poirot’s homicidal pen pal seemed well on his way to completing the alphabet with 24 more murders.