A message from a dead acquaintance prompts a bus tour to an unknown crime...In utter disbelief Miss Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr Rafiel -- an acquaintance she had met briefly on her travels. Recognising in Miss Marple a natural flair for justice, Mr Rafiel had left instructions for her to investigate a crime after his death. The only problem was, he had failed to tell her who was involved or where and when the crime had been committed. It was most intriguing.
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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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