阿加莎·克里斯蒂短篇侦探小说集 Masterpieces in Miniature: The Detectives Stories by Agatha Christie

作者： Agatha Christie著

出 版 社： Oversea Publishing House

出版时间： 2005-10-1字数：版次： 1页数： 691印刷时间： 2005/10/01开本： 32开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780312349387包装： 平装内容简介

The most beloved characters by the most popular crime writer of all timetogether in her largest compendium of stories everAgatha Christie is the worlds most popular writer in modern times and her books have only been outsold by the Bible and Shakespeare. Best remembered for such classic crime novels as Murder on the Orient Express, And Then There Were None, and Death on the Nile, her works have been cherished by generations of readers. Christie, however, was also a master of the shorter crime story and this volume collects some of her finest short pieces. Each of these thirty-nine stories features one of Christies famous detectivesMiss Marple, Hercule Poirot, Parker Pyne, and Harley Quinin some of their most baffling and intriguing cases, as these ingenious Christie tales show how satisfying and compelling the crime short story can be.

作者简介：

Agatha Christie's career spanned more than fifty years and included eighty books as well as fourteen plays. Declared the "champion deceiver of our time" (New York Times), she is best known in the U.S. for her classic novel And Then There Were None as well as her novels featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Her work has been the subject of numerous films and TV dramas over the past seventy-five years. She died in 1976.

目录

PART ONE: PARKER PYNE

Meeting Parker Pyne by Agatha Christie

1.The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife

2.The Case of the Discontented Soldier

3.The Case of the Distressed Lady

4.The Case of the Discontented Husband

5.The Case of the City Clerk

6.The Case of the Rich Woman

7.Have You Got Everything You Want?

8.The Gate of Baghdad

9.The House at Shiraz

10.The Pearl of Price

11.Death on the Nile

12.The Oracle at Delphi

PART Ⅱ: HARLEY QUIN

Presenting Mr.Harley Quin by Agatha Christie

1.The Coming of Mr.Quin

2.The Shadow on the Glass

3.At the Bells and Motley

4.The Sign in the Sky

5.The Soul of the Croupier

6.The World's End

7.The Voice in the Dark

8.The Face of Helen

9.The Dead Harlequin

10.The Bird with the Broken Wing

11.The Man from the Sea

12.Harlequin's Lane

13.The Love Detectives

PARTⅢ: HERCULE POIROT

1.The Third-Floor Flat

2.The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly

3.Four and Twenty Blackbirds

4.The Double Clue

5.Double Sin

6.Wasps' Nest

7.The Theft of the Royal Ruby

8.The Second Gong

PART Ⅳ: MISS JANE MARPLE

1.Strange Jest

2.Tape-Measure Murder

3.The Case of the Perfect Maid

4.The Case of the Caretaker

5.Greenshaw's Folly

6.Sanctuary