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Marple twelve new stories [LP]

"For the first time in forty-five years, Agatha Christie's legendary sleuth Jane Marple returns to solve twelve baffling cases penned by a host of acclaimed authors skilled in the fine art of mystery and murder. In St. Mary Mead, a Christmas dinner is interrupted by unexpected guests; the Broadway s...

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Main Author: Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 (Creator)
Other Authors: Foley, Lucy (Novelist), McDermid, Val, Cole, Alyssa, Haynes, Natalie, Ware, Ruth, Alderman, Naomi, Kwok, Jean, Mitchell, Dreda Say, Griffiths, Ella, 1978-, McManus, Karen M., Mosse, Kate, 1961-, Bardugo, Leigh
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2022.
Edition:First Harper large print edition.
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Marple, Jane > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Women detectives > England > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Short stories.
Large print books.
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Summary:"For the first time in forty-five years, Agatha Christie's legendary sleuth Jane Marple returns to solve twelve baffling cases penned by a host of acclaimed authors skilled in the fine art of mystery and murder. In St. Mary Mead, a Christmas dinner is interrupted by unexpected guests; the Broadway stage in New York City is set for a dangerous improvisation; bad omens surround an untimely death aboard a cruise ship to Hong Kong; and a bestselling writer on holiday in Italy is caught in a nefarious plot. These and other crimes committed in the name of love, jealousy, blackmail, and revenge are ones that only the indomitable Jane Marple can solve. A triumphant celebration of Christie's legacy and essential reading for crime lovers, Marple is a timely reminder of why Jane Marple remains one of the most famous detectives of all time." --
Item Description:At head of title: Agatha Christie
"One doesn't stop at one murder..." -- From back cover.
"Originally published as Marple in the United Kingdom in 2022 by HarperCollins." -- From title page verso.
Physical Description:463 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
ISBN:9780063266056
0063266059
Author Notes:One of the most successful and beloved writer of mystery stories, Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie was born in 1890 in Torquay, County Devon, England. She wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920, launching a literary career that spanned decades. In her lifetime, she authored 79 crime novels and a short story collection, 19 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language with another billion in 44 foreign languages. Some of her most famous titles include Murder on the Orient Express, Mystery of the Blue Train, And Then There Were None, 13 at Dinner and The Sittaford Mystery.

Noted for clever and surprising twists of plot, many of Christie's mysteries feature two unconventional fictional detectives named Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. Poirot, in particular, plays the hero of many of her works, including the classic, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and Curtain (1975), one of her last works in which the famed detective dies.

Over the years, her travels took her to the Middle East where she met noted English archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan. They married in 1930. Christie accompanied Mallowan on annual expeditions to Iraq and Syria, which served as material for Murder in Mesopotamia (1930), Death on the Nile (1937), and Appointment with Death (1938).

Christie's credits also include the plays, The Mousetrap and Witness for the Prosecution (1953; film 1957). Christie received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for 1954-1955 for Witness. She was also named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1971.

Christie died in 1976.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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