Poirot: The Complete Ariadne Oliver: Volume 1 - Tapa blanda

Reseña del editor

A brand new POIROT omnibus, featuring the first five appearances of the detective’s side-kick, the sleuthing crime novelist Ariadne Oliver: Cards on the Table, Mrs McGinty’s Dead, Dead Man’s Folly, and the short stories The Case of the Discontented Soldier and The Case of the Rich Woman.

Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver were an unilkely combination – a world-famous detective who dealt with fact and a prolific crime writer who dealt with fantasy. But their paths crossed six times, and Mrs Oliver was to become one of Poirot’s staunchest allies.

Cards on the Table
Ariadne Oliver makes her first appearance in Poirot’s life when they attend a bridge party in which the host is silently murdered in full view of a roomful of guests.

Mrs McGinty’s Dead
After 16 years, Mrs Oliver re-enters Poirot’s life when an old widow is murdered in the parlour of her cottage.

Dead Man’s Folly
A murder hunt is staged for charity, but alarmingly turns into the real thing when Poirot and Mrs Oliver have to face up to their first case of a child murder.

The Case of the Discontented Soldier and The Case of the Rich Woman are two bonus stories in which Mrs Oliver makes an appearance alongside the private eye Christopher Parker Pyne.

Biografía del autor

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.