By the legendary Queen of Crime, this all-new collection of stories about love gone wrong will get your heart racing. By the legendary Queen of Crime, this all-new collection of stories about love gone wrong will get your heart racing. Love can propel us to our greatest heights…and darkest depths. In this new collection of Agatha Christie short stories, witness the dark side of love – crimes of passion, games of the heart, and deadly affairs. This pulse-pounding compendium features beloved detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, master of charades Parker Pyne, the enigmatic Harley Quin, and the adventurous Tommy and Tuppence, all on the ready to solve a tantalising mystery. INCLUDES THE STORIES:• The King of Clubs• The Face of Helen• A Death on the Nile• Death by Drowning• The Double Clue• Finessing the King• A Fruitful Sunday• Wasps’ Nest• The Case of the Caretaker• The Man in the Mist• The Case of the Rich Woman• Magnolia Blossom• The Love Detectives ‘Without a doubt, the greatest mystery writer of all time’ – Ragnar Jonasson ‘A hundred years after her first novel, and we are all still standing in her shadow’ – Andrew Taylor ‘Agatha Christie is the gateway drug to crime fiction both for readers and for writers’ – Val McDermid ‘She gives us an insight into human nature that few, if any, have surpassed’ – Susan Lewis ‘Dame Agatha has sold more books than all besides Shakespeare and the Bible’ – David Baldacci ‘All crime fiction writers around the globe owe Agatha Christie a massive debt’ – Peter James ‘Reading a perfectly plotted Agatha Christie is like crunching into a perfect apple: that pure, crisp, absolute satisfaction’ – Tana French Unexpected Love Stories from the Queen of Crime Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott. Unexpected Love Stories from the Queen of Crime Exclusive to audio, a curated collection of Agatha Christie’s best loved stories, centred on the theme of love. Follows in the wake of recent successful exclusive collections, Murder Under the Sun and Murder in Paradise. Kenneth Branagh’s film adaptation of Death on the Nile finally released in 2022. Competition: murder under the sun;death on the nile;the;mysterious affair at styles;evil under the sun;last seance;bodies from the library;midwinter murder;midsummer mysteries. by;ann cleeves;freeman wills crofts;arthur conan doyle;dean koontz;lucy foley;sophie hannah;lucy clarke;val mcdermid;nina de gramont
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