內容簡介
The World's Bestselling Mystery
"Ten . . ."
Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious "U.N. Owen."
"Nine . . ."
At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by the end of the night one of the guests is dead.
"Eight . . ."
Stranded by a violent storm, and haunted by a nursery rhyme counting down one by one . . . one by one they begin to die.
"Seven . . ."
Who among them is the killer and will any of them survive?
作者簡介
Agatha Christie was born in 1890 and created the detective Hercule Poirot in her debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920). She achieved wide popularity with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) and produced a total of eighty novels and short-story collections over six decades.
阿加莎·剋裏斯蒂被譽為舉世公認的偵探推理小說女王。她的著作英文版銷售量逾10億冊,而且還被譯成百餘種文字,銷售量亦逾10億冊。她一生創作瞭80部偵探小說和短篇故事集,19部劇本,以及6部以瑪麗·維斯特麥考特的筆名齣版的小說。著作數量之豐僅次於莎士比亞。
阿加莎·剋裏斯蒂的第一部小說《斯泰爾斯莊園奇案》寫於第一次世界大戰末,戰時她擔任誌願救護隊員。在這部小說中她塑造瞭一個可愛的小個子比利時偵探赫爾剋裏·波格,成為繼福爾摩斯之後偵探小說中受讀者歡迎的偵探形象。1926年,阿加莎·剋裏斯蒂寫齣瞭自己的成名作《羅傑疑案》(又譯作《羅傑·艾剋羅伊德謀殺案》)。1952年她著名的劇本《捕鼠器》被搬上舞颱,此後連續上演,時間之長久,創下瞭世界戲劇史上空前的紀錄。
1971年,阿加莎·剋裏斯蒂得英國女王冊封的女爵士封號。1975年,英格麗·褒曼憑藉根據阿加莎同名小說《東方快車謀殺案》改編的影片獲得瞭第三座奧斯卡奬杯。阿加莎數以億計的仰慕者中不乏顯赫的人物,其中包括女王伊麗莎白二世和法國總統戴高樂。
1976年,她以85歲高齡永彆瞭熱愛她的人們。
精彩書評
Daily Herald (UK) “The most astonishingly impudent, ingenious and altogether successful mystery story since The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.” New Statesman (UK) “There is no cheating; the reader is just bamboozled in a straightforward way from first to last….The most colossal achievement of a colossal career. The book must rank with Mrs. Christie’s previous best—on the top notch of detection.” Fewer Reviews New York Times “The whole thing is utterly impossible and utterly fascinating. It is the most baffling mystery Agatha Christie has ever written.” The Observer (UK) “One of the very best, most genuinely bewildering Christies.” Time magazine “One of the most ingenious thrillers in many a day.”
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