The Voice in the Dark: An Agatha Christie Short Story
Title | The Voice in the Dark: An Agatha Christie Short Story PDF eBook |
Author | Agatha Christie |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 40 |
Release | 2014-03-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0007560117 |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.
The Voice in the Dark
Title | The Voice in the Dark PDF eBook |
Author | Agatha Christie |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 31 |
Release | 2013-10-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0062302329 |
Previously published in the print anthology The Mysterious Mr. Quin. Mr. Satterthwaite’s old friend Lady Barbara Stanleigh asks him to investigate her daughter Margery’s claim that the family seat is haunted. He and Mr. Quin set about solving the mystery.
Detectives and Young Adventurers
Title | Detectives and Young Adventurers PDF eBook |
Author | Agatha Christie |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | 50 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0007284195 |
A brand new bumper omnibus gathering together over 50 classic Agatha Christie stories featuring Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Harley Quin, Parker Pyne and Hercule Poirot, plus her rare Christmas Stories not available in any other volume. This new compendium of over 50 stories is the first time all the stories featuring Agatha Christie's detectives have been collected together. Here you will meet - PARKER PYNE - a consulting detective whose practice is to solve less murderous enigmas and restore happiness to his clients; HARLEY QUIN - a tall, dark, mysterious young man who takes a more surreptitious approach to solving crime; TOMMY AND TUPPENCE BERESFORD - a newly married pair of self-styled 'Young Adventurers' who are prepared to do anything in the name of justice. And in addition to presenting the complete oeuvre for these detectives, this volume includes as a bonus four rare short stories featuring that grand master of detection, Monsieur HERCULE POIROT, plus Agatha Christie's little-known Christmas stories written for children, including "Star Over Bethlehem" and "The Naughty Donkey".
God and the Little Grey Cells
Title | God and the Little Grey Cells PDF eBook |
Author | Dan W. Clanton, Jr. |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 233 |
Release | 2024-05-16 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567696103 |
Dan W. Clanton, Jr. examines the presence and use of religion and Bible in Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels and stories and their later interpretations. Clanton begins by situating Christie in her literary, historical, and religious contexts by discussing “Golden Age” crime fiction and Christianity in England in the late 19th-early 20th centuries. He then explores the ways in which Bible is used in Christie's Poirot novels as well as how Christie constructs a religious identity for her little Belgian sleuth. Clanton concludes by asking how non-majority religious cultures are treated in the Poirot canon, including a heterodox Christian movement, Spiritualism, Judaism, and Islam. Throughout, Clanton acknowledges that many people do not encounter Poirot in his original literary contexts. That is, far more people have been exposed to Poirot via “mediated” renderings and interpretations of the stories and novels in various other genres, including radio, films, and TV. As such, the book engages the reception of the stories in these various genres, since the process of adapting the original narrative plots involves, at times, meaningful changes. Capitalizing on the immense and enduring popularity of Poirot across multiple genres and the absence of research on the role of religion and Bible in those stories, this book is a necessary contribution to the field of Christie studies and will be welcomed by her fans as well as scholars of religion, popular culture, literature, and media.
Agatha Christie
Title | Agatha Christie PDF eBook |
Author | J.C. Bernthal |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 457 |
Release | 2022-08-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1476647151 |
The undisputed "Queen of Crime," Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is the bestselling novelist of all time. As the creator of immortal detectives Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple, she continues to enthrall readers around the world and is drawing increasing attention from scholars, historians, and critics. But Christie wrote far beyond Poirot and Marple. A varied life including war work, archaeology, and two very different marriages provided the backdrop to a diverse body of work. This encyclopedic companion summarizes and explores Christie's entire literary output, including the detective fiction, plays, radio dramas, adaptations, and her little-studied non-crime writing. It details all published works and key themes and characters, as well as the people and places that inspired them, and identifies a trove of uncollected interviews, articles, and unpublished material, including details that have never appeared in print. For the casual reader looking for background information on their favorite mystery to the dedicated scholar tracking down elusive new angles, this companion will provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date information.
Philomel Cottage
Title | Philomel Cottage PDF eBook |
Author | Agatha Christie |
Publisher | MB Cooltura |
Total Pages | 44 |
Release | 2023-08-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9877448548 |
Alix falls in love with a perfect stranger: Gerald Martin; and despite the opposition of her friend Dick Windyford, she marries him. The couple decides to buy and live at Philomel Cottage; a nice cabin lost in the country. Suddenly, Alix begins to think that her husband is a murderer who wants to keep her money and desperately must find the way to escape without arousing his suspicions. Will she make it?
The Mystery of the Blue Jar
Title | The Mystery of the Blue Jar PDF eBook |
Author | Agatha Christie |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 44 |
Release | 2012-05-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0062211099 |
A classic Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories. Every morning at the same hour on the golf course, Jack Hartington hears mysterious cries for help coming from a cottage. He speaks to the resident and learns that she has unsettling dreams of a woman with a blue Chinese vase. Believing that the cries for help are from the late Mrs. Turner, the former resident of the cottage, Jack hires a psychic investigator to spend a night in the house, a night which proves to have startling results…