According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author, having been translated into at least 103 languages.

Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. She wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in Romance.

Why is the dead man wearing an overcoat that is too big for him? And who was the impassioned love-letter in the pocket for? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identically murdered corpse.Īgatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.ĭame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie is the best-selling author of all time. The police think they've found the culprit. There's no lack of suspects: his wife, whose dagger served as the weapon his embittered son, who would have killed for independence and his mistress, who refused to be ignored - and each felt deserving of the dead man's fortune. Apparently, it seems that Renauld and his wife were victims of a failed break-in, resulting in Renauld's kidnapping and death. Meanwhile the millionaire's wife is found bound and gagged in her room. Upon his arrival in Merlinville-sur-Mer, the investigator finds the man who penned the letter, the South American millionaire Monsieur Renauld, stabbed to death and his body flung into a freshly dug open grave on the golf course adjoining the property.

Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is summoned to France after receiving a distressing letter with a urgent cry for help.

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