christie agatha the mysterious affair at styles
Christie Agatha The Mysterious Affair at Styles
After the Great War, life can never be the same again. Wounds need healing, and the horror of violent death banished into memory. Captain Arthur Hastings is invited to the rolling country estate of Styles to recuperate from injuries sustained at the Front. It is the last place he expects to encounter murder. Fortunately he knows a former detective, a Belgian refugee, who has grown bored of retirement ... The first Hercule Poirot mystery, now published with a previously deleted chapter and introduced by Agatha Christie expert Dr John Curran.
1190 Руб.
Christie Agatha The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Первый детектив, на страницах которого появляются знаменитый бельгийский сыщик Эркюль Пуаро и капитан Артур Гастингс. Выйдя из госпиталя после серьёзного ранения, капитан Гастингс по приглашению друзей принимает решение отдохнуть в имении Стайлз. Но события принимают неожиданный оборот - умирает хозяйка поместья. Совершенно случайно в этих же местах отдыхал знаменитый сыщик, и капитану Гастингсу выпадает шанс поучаствовать в настоящем детективном расследовании Эркюля Пуаро.
285 Руб.
Christie Agatha The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Перед вами самая первая книга Агаты Кристи. Гениальный сыщик Эркюль Пуаро сталкивается с будто бы простой задачей. Богатая леди стала жертвой злой воли одного из наследников. Ответ на вопрос "кто убийца?" очевиден, но дело значительно запутанней, чем кажется на первый взгляд, и только блестящий ум Пуаро способен разгадать эту головоломку. Неадаптированнный текст романа на языке оригинала снабжен комментариями и словарем.
477 Руб.
Christie Agatha The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was the result of a dare from her sister Madge who challenged her to write a story. The story begins when Hastings is sent back to England from the First World War due to injury and is invited to spend his sick leave at the beautiful Styles Court by his old friend John Cavendish. Here, Hastings meets John’s step-mother, Mrs Inglethorpe, and her new husband, Alfred. Despite the tranquil surroundings Hastings begins to realise that all is not right. When Mrs Inglethorpe is found poisoned, suspicion falls on the family, and another old friend, Hercule Poirot, is invited to investigate.
1276 Руб.
Christie Agatha The Mysterious Affair At Styles
Marking exactly 100 years since the publication of Agatha Christie’s first novel, this new edition includes a previously deleted chapter and a newly discovered essay, ‘Drugs and Detective Stories’, in which Agatha Christie reminisces about the inspiration for Poirot’s first case. ‘Beware! Peril to the detective who says: “It is so small – it does not matter…” Everything matters.’ After the Great War, life can never be the same again. Wounds need healing, and the horror of violent death banished into memory. Captain Arthur Hastings is invited to the rolling country estate of Styles to recuperate from injuries sustained at the Front. It is the last place he expects to encounter murder. Fortunately he knows a former detective, a Belgian refugee, who has grown bored of retirement…
1613 Руб.
Christie Agatha The Mysterious Affair at Styles
‘Beware! Peril to the detective who says: “It is so small – it does not matter…” Everything matters.’ After the Great War, life can never be the same again. Wounds need healing, and the horror of violent death banished into memory. Captain Arthur Hastings is invited to the rolling country estate of Styles to recuperate from injuries sustained at the Front. It is the last place he expects to encounter murder. Fortunately he knows a former detective, a Belgian refugee, who has grown bored of retirement… The first Hercule Poirot mystery, now published with a previously deleted chapter and introduced by Agatha Christie expert Dr John Curran.
3154 Руб.
Christie A. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
HERCULE POIROT'S FIRST CASE After the Great War, life can never be the same again. Wounds need healing, and the horror of violent death banished into memory. Captain Arthur Hastings is invited to the rolling country estate of Styles to recuperate from injuries sustained at the Front. It is the last place he expects to encounter murder. Fortunately he knows a former detective, a Belgian refugee, who has grown bored of retirement...
1321 Руб.
Christie A. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
HERCULE POIROT'S FIRST CASE After the Great War, life can never be the same again. Wounds need healing, and the horror of violent death banished into memory. Captain Arthur Hastings is invited to the rolling country estate of Styles to recuperate from injuries sustained at the Front. It is the last place he expects to encounter murder. Fortunately he knows a former detective, a Belgian refugee, who has grown bored of retirement...
1321 Руб.
Aldridge Mark Agatha Christie's Poirot. The Greatest Detective in the World
From the very first book publication in 1920 to the recent film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably the world’s favourite fictional detective. This book tells his story decade-by-decade, exploring his appearances not only in the original novels, short stories and plays but also across stage, screen and radio productions. Poirot has had near-permanent presence in the public eye ever since the 1920 publication of The Mysterious Affair at Styles. From character development, publication history and private discussion concerning the original stories themselves, to early forays on to the stage and screen, the story of Poirot is as fascinating as it is enduring. Based on the author’s original research, review excerpts and original Agatha Christie correspondence, Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World is a lively and accessible history of the character, offering new information and helpful pieces of context, that will delight all Agatha Christie fans, from a new generation of readers to those already highly familiar with the canon.
2435 Руб.
Aldridge Mark Agatha Christie's Poirot. The Greatest Detective In The World
From the very first book publication in 1920 to the upcoming film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably the world’s favourite fictional detective. This book tells his story decade-by-decade, exploring his appearances not only in the original novels, short stories and plays but also across stage, screen and radio productions. The hardback edition includes more than 400 illustrations. Poirot has had near-permanent presence in the public eye ever since the 1920 publication of The Mysterious Affair at Styles. From character development, publication history and private discussion concerning the original stories themselves, to early forays on to the stage and screen, the story of Poirot is as fascinating as it is enduring. Based on the author’s original research, review excerpts and original Agatha Christie correspondence, Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World is a lively and accessible history of the character, offering new information and helpful pieces of context, that will delight all Agatha Christie fans, from a new generation of readers to those already highly familiar with the canon.
4685 Руб.
Curran John Agatha Christie's Complete Secret Notebooks. Stories and Secrets of Murder in the Making
Agatha Christie’s Complete Secret Notebooks brings together for the first time Secret Notebooks and Murder in the Making, two volumes that explore the fascinating contents of her 73 notebooks. This includes illustrations, deleted extracts, unused ideas, two unpublished Poirot stories and a lost Miss Marple. When Agatha Christie died in 1976, aged 85, she had become the world's most popular author. With sales of more than two billion copies worldwide in more than 100 countries, she had achieved the impossible – more than one book every year since the 1920s, every one a bestseller. So prolific was Agatha Christie's output – 66 crime novels, 20 plays, 6 romance books under a pseudonym and over 150 short stories – it was often claimed that she had a photographic memory. Was this true? Or did she resort over those 55 years to more mundane methods of working out her ingenious crimes? Following the death of Agatha's daughter, Rosalind, at the end of 2004, a remarkable secret was revealed. Unearthed among her affairs at the family home of Greenway were Agatha Christie's private notebooks, 73 handwritten volumes of notes, lists and drafts outlining all her plans for her many books, plays and stories. Buried in this treasure trove, all in her unmistakable handwriting, are revelations and details that will fascinate anyone who has ever read or watched an Agatha Christie story. Christie archivist and expert John Curran leads the reader through the six decades of Agatha Christie's writing career, unearthing some remarkable clues to her success and a number of never-before-published excerpts and stories from her archives. This book features Agatha's original ending of her very first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, painstakingly transcribed from her notebooks. It also includes a number of short stories from the archives reproduced in full, including the unpublished The Man Who Knew, How I Created Hercule Poirot, and an early draft for a Miss Marple story, The Case of the Caretaker's Wife.
2921 Руб.
Кристи Агата The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Капитан Артур Гастингс приглашен в поместье Стайлз. Его обитатели ведут безмятежную жизнь, которая внезапно омрачается странной смертью пожилой хозяйки, имевшей обыкновение раз в год менять условия завещания и недавно вышедшей замуж за человека много моложе себя. Дама отравлена стрихнином. Ее смерть выгодна многим, и в первую очередь - молодому мужу. К счастью, капитан Гастингс встретил жившего неподалеку Эркюля Пуаро. который раскрыл тайну убийства миссис Инглторп. Во время Первой мировой войны Агата Кристи работала в больнице, затем в аптеке. Полученные сведения о ядах она затем использовала во многих своих книгах, например, в первом своем романе "Загадочное происшествие в Стайлзе", написанном на спор в 1916 году и опубликованном в 1920-м. На страницах романа читатели знакомятся с персонажами, которые будут появляться во многих произведениях королевы детектива, - с Эркюлем Пуаро, капитаном Гастингсом, старшим инспектором Скотланд-Ярда Джеппом. Роман содержит все элементы классического детектива - "закрытая комната" и множество скрывающих что-либо подозреваемых, схемы и планы. Крутые повороты расследования, за которыми следует неожиданная развязка, держат читателя в напряжении до последней страницы. Комментарии и словарь Е.Г. Тигонен
384 Руб.
Кристи Агата The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Загадочное происшествие в Стайлзе. Книга для чтения на английском языке. Во время Первой мировой войны Агата Кристи работала в больнице, затем в аптеке. Полученные сведения о ядах она затем использовала во многих своих книгах, например, в первом своем романе "Загадочное происшествие в Стайлзе", написанном на спор в 1916 году и опубликованном в 1920-м. На страницах романа читатели знакомятся с персонажами, которые будут появляться во многих произведениях королевы детектива, - с Эркюлем Пуаро, капитаном Гастингсом, старшим инспектором Скотланд-Ярда Джеппом. Роман содержит все элементы классического детектива - "закрытая комната" и множество скрывающих что-либо подозреваемых, схемы и планы. Крутые повороты расследования, за которыми следует неожиданная развязка, держат читателя в напряжении до последней страницы.
240 Руб.
Кристи Агата The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Загадочное происшествие в Стайлзе. Книга для чтения на английском языке. Во время Первой мировой войны Агата Кристи работала в больнице, затем в аптеке. Полученные сведения о ядах она затем использовала во многих своих книгах, например, в первом своем романе "Загадочное происшествие в Стайлзе", написанном на спор в 1916 году и опубликованном в 1920-м. На страницах романа читатели знакомятся с персонажами, которые будут появляться во многих произведениях королевы детектива, - с Эркюлем Пуаро, капитаном Гастингсом, старшим инспектором Скотланд-Ярда Джеппом. Роман содержит все элементы классического детектива - "закрытая комната" и множество скрывающих что-либо подозреваемых, схемы и планы. Крутые повороты расследования, за которыми следует неожиданная развязка, держат читателя в напряжении до последней страницы.
240 Руб.
Christie Agatha The Last Seance. Tales of the Supernatural
From the Queen of Crime, the first time all of her spookiest and most macabre stories have been collected in one volume. ‘From behind the curtains there still sounded the terrible high long-drawn scream – such a scream as Raoul had never heard. It died away with a horrible kind of gurgle. Then there came the thud of a body falling…’ For lovers of the supernatural and the macabre comes this collection of ghostly and chilling tales from Agatha Christie. Acknowledged the world over as the undisputed Queen of Crime, in fact she dabbled in her early writing career with mysteries of a more unearthly kind – stories featuring fantastic psychic visions, spectres looming in the shadows, encounters with deities, eerie messages from the Other Side, even a man who switches bodies with a cat… This haunting compendium gathers together all of Christie’s spookiest and most macabre short stories, some featuring her timeless detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Finally together in one volume, it shines a light on the darker side of Agatha Christie, one that she herself relished, identifying ten of them as ‘my own favourite stories written soon after The Mysterious Affair at Styles, some before that’. Contains 20 stories: The Last Seance • In a Glass Darkly • The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb • SOS • The Fourth Man • The Idol House of Astarte • The Gipsy • Philomel Cottage • The Dream • The Lamp • Wireless • The Mystery of the Blue Jar • The Blue Geranium • The Wife of the Kenite • The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael • The Call of Wings • The Red Signal • The Flock of Geryon • The Dressmaker’s Doll • The Hound of Death
1814 Руб.
de Gramont Nina The Christie Affair
In 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days. Only I know the truth of her disappearance. I’m no Hercule Poirot. I’m her husband’s mistress. Agatha Christie’s world is one of glamorous society parties, country house weekends, and growing literary fame. Nan O’Dea’s world is something very different. Her attempts to escape a tough London upbringing during the Great War led to a life in Ireland marred by a hidden tragedy. After fighting her way back to England, she’s set her sights on Agatha. Because Agatha Christie has something Nan wants. And it’s not just her husband. Despite their differences, the two women will become the most unlikely of allies. And during the mysterious eleven days that Agatha goes missing, they will unravel a dark secret that only Nan holds the key to . . .
1705 Руб.