In a quiet English village, a killer is about to strike. Again and again.
Luke Fitzwilliam found it hard to credit Miss PinkertonтАЩs wild allegation that a multiple murderer was at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood тАУ or her speculation that the local doctor was next in line.
But within hours, Miss Pinkerton had been found dead. Crushed by a passing car. Mere coincidence? Luke was inclined to think so тАУ until another victim is found dead.
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.