While the Light Lasts
1997
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Unabridged edition
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-00-105408-0 (ISBN)
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-00-105408-0 (ISBN)
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Five early stories unpublished since their first magazine appearances in the ’20s and ’30s, finally unearthed 21 years after Agatha Christie’s death, already showing the deft touch of the Queen of Crime in the making.
While the Light Lasts
The Actress
The House of Dreams
The Edge
Within a Wall
Like many of her contemporaries, Agatha Christie wrote stories for a variety of magazines in the 1920s and ’30s, and most of these eventually found their way into her books of short stories. Now, 21 years after her death, detective work worthy of Agatha Christie herself has unearthed `new’ stories, most of which have never been published anywhere in the world since their orginal appearances.
In this new collection the author observes the tragic flaws in human nature, providing a glimpse of the Queen of Crime in the making. Anyone who has ever read Agatha Christie will enjoy every story for her skill at characterisation and her ability to deliver an unexpected twist in the tail…
While the Light Lasts
The Actress
The House of Dreams
The Edge
Within a Wall
Like many of her contemporaries, Agatha Christie wrote stories for a variety of magazines in the 1920s and ’30s, and most of these eventually found their way into her books of short stories. Now, 21 years after her death, detective work worthy of Agatha Christie herself has unearthed `new’ stories, most of which have never been published anywhere in the world since their orginal appearances.
In this new collection the author observes the tragic flaws in human nature, providing a glimpse of the Queen of Crime in the making. Anyone who has ever read Agatha Christie will enjoy every story for her skill at characterisation and her ability to deliver an unexpected twist in the tail…
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.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.8.1997 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 106 x 139 mm |
| Gewicht | 122 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror |
| Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-00-105408-2 / 0001054082 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-00-105408-0 / 9780001054080 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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