Crooked House

by Agatha Christie

Overview

An exclusive authorized edition of a classic Agatha Christie thriller revolving around a devastating family mystery, described by the Queen of Mystery herself as one of her favorites of her published works — now a feature film from Sony Pictures starring Christina Hendricks, Gillian Anderson, and Glenn Close.

The Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That is until the head of the household, Aristide, is murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection.

Suspicion naturally falls on the old man’s young widow, fifty years his junior. But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward, fiancé of the late millionaire’s granddaughter.

“Writing Crooked House was pure pleasure and I feel justified in my belief that it is one of my best.” —Agatha Christie

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062073532
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	02/01/2011
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	47,344
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	630L (what's this?)

About the Author

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.

Date of Birth:

September 15, 1890

Date of Death:

January 12, 1976

Place of Birth:

Torquay, Devon, England

Education:

Home schooling

Website:

http://www.agathachristie.com

What People are Saying About This

Reginald Hill

“We all go where [Agatha Christie] led; you can track us in her snow.”

Agatha Christie

“Writing Crooked House was pure pleasure and I feel justified in my belief that it is one of my best.”

Editorial Reviews

Writing Crooked House was pure pleasure and I feel justified in my belief that it is one of my best.” — Agatha Christie

“Her sleight of hand is impeccable.” — New Statesman (UK)

“Knock-out!” — Saturday Review of Literature

“We all go where [Agatha Christie] led; you can track us in her snow.” — Reginald Hill, author of the Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries Reginald Hill, author of the Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries Reginald Hill, author of the Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries

From the Publisher

Knock-out!

Saturday Review of Literature

Writing Crooked House was pure pleasure and I feel justified in my belief that it is one of my best.

Agatha Christie

We all go where [Agatha Christie] led; you can track us in her snow.

Reginald Hill

Her sleight of hand is impeccable.

New Statesman (UK)