Middle-aged Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, too old to fight and too young to knit, are dismayed to find out that the British government of World War II has little interest in their detecting and spy-catching abilities. Then, almost incidentally, they are asked to spot a traitor, believed to be living at a rural guesthouse. But the place is full of harmless eccentrics: elderly ladies, retired military men, a hypochondriac and his colorless wife, a young mother, and a German refugee. The Beresfords invent personalities and elaborate traps, identify the imposter, and prevent an invasion. The strengths of this Christie "cozy" are the exuberant charm, intelligence, and enthusiasms of the central characters. Middle-aged they may be, but inside Tommy and Tuppence are still the same young adventurers who chased criminals and spies in post-Great War London. James Warwick does a highly competent, nicely unobtrusive job of reading this title, which is likely to be popular with fans of golden age mysteries. Recommended for moderate to large public libraries. I. Pour-El, Des Moines Area Community Coll., Boone, IA
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
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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 100 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 novel and short story coUections，19 plays,and six novels written under the narne of Mary Westrmacott．
Agatha Christie’S fast novel,The Mysterious Affair at Styles,was written towards the end of the First Wold War．in which she served as a VAD．In it she created Hercule Poiroh the little Belgian detective who was destined tO become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes．It was eventually published by The Bodley Head in 1920.
In 1926，after averaging a book a year，Agatha Christie wrote her masterpiece．The Murder ofRoger Ackroyd was the first of her books tO be published by Collins and marked the beginning of an author-pubfisher relationship which‘lasted for 50 years and well OVer 70 books．Murder of Roger Ackroyd was also the first of Agatha Christie's books to be dramatised—under the name Alibi-and to have a successful run in London’S West End．The Mousetrap,her most famous play of all，opened in 1952 and is the longest-running play in history．
Agatha Christie was made a Dame in l971．She died in 1976，since when a number of books have been published posthumously：the bestselling novel Sleeping Murder appeared later that year,followed by her autobiography and the short story collections Miss Marple's Final Cases，Problem at Pollensa Bay and While the Light lasts．In 1998 Black Coffes WaS the first of her plays tO be novelised by another author,Charles Osbome． |
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