Crooked House by Dame Agatha Christie appeared in 1948. The novel concerns the murder of a wealthy Greek restaurant owner Aristide Leonides. The old chap had married a much younger woman Brenda who was a waitress at the time of their nupitals. The book is narrated by Charles Hayward a Scotland Yard criminologist whose father is also a policeman involved it he case. Charles is in love with Sophie Leonides one of old Aristide’s grandchildren. Her family is eccentric to say the least. The family consists of her ineffectual father Phillip and his older brother of whom he is jealous. Crooked House is an evil place and the murderer is hard to discover.
The book is written in Christie’s simple style and required only a few hours of reading. If you want a short mystery novel to while away a few hours this Christie classic will fit your needs to a tee!
A wealthy Greek businessman is found dead at his London home…The Leonides were one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That was until the head of the household, Aristide, was 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, fiance of the late millionare’s granddaughter…
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One of Christie’s strongest. Although the plot is neither intricate nor clue-laden, the ending is powerful and immediately convincing. Christie’s climatic explanatory chapters are usually lengthy; this one is barely two or three pages. This is due to the soundness and deceptive simplicity of the solution. Christie’s publishers wanted her to change the unconventional ending, but she wisely refused. A classic murder mystery.
Crooked House (Agatha Christie) Info
- Series: Agatha Christie ( Download PDF :
) - Hardcover: 270 pages
- ISBN-10: 1611732336
- ISBN-13: 978-1611732337
- Author: Agatha Christie
- Publisher: Center Point; Lrg edition (December 1, 2011)
- Language: English
- Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
About the Author
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 100 foreign languages. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.
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