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The Sittaford Mystery is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1931 under the title of The Murder at Hazelmoor [1] [2] and in UK by the Collins Crime Club on 7 September of the same year under Christie's original title. [3]
The Chimneys novels were two light-hearted thrillers by Agatha Christie, The Secret of Chimneys (1925) and The Seven Dials Mystery (1929). Superintendent Battle and Lady "Bundle" Brent were characters in both books.
The Sittaford Mystery (publication) The Body in the Library (series) The Murder at the Vicarage is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie , first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1930 [ 1 ] and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.
1989, Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), 1989, Paperback, 272 pp 2007, Facsimile of 1925 UK first edition (HarperCollins), 5 November 2007, Hardcover, ISBN 0-00-726521-2 This was the last novel published under Christie's six-book contract with the Bodley Head which had been agreed back in 1919.
Indian streamer SonyLIV has announced an adaptation of Agatha Christie detective novel The Sittaford Mystery, which marks director Vishal Bhardwaj’s debut on a streaming series. The Hindi ...
The play is based on her 1937 novel Death on the Nile which in itself started off as a play which Christie called Moon on the Nile.Once written, she decided it would do better as a book and she only resurrected the play version in 1942 when she was in the middle of writing the theatrical version of And Then There Were None and her actor friend Francis L. Sullivan was looking for a play in ...
Julian MacLaren-Ross enthusiastically reviewed the novel in the 20 April 1951 issue of The Times Literary Supplement and said it was "more of a thriller than a detective story, though there are plenty of mysteries and two surprises reserved for the closing chapters; one of these is perhaps her best since the unmasking of the criminal in The Seven Dials Mystery."
In The New York Times Book Review for 25 June 1939, Isaac Anderson mentioned by name "Miss Marple Tells a Story" and went on to say that, "Neither this story nor any of the others is comparable to the longer works of Agatha Christie, but that is scarcely to be expected, for the detective story, more perhaps than any other type of fiction, needs continued suspense to hold the reader's interest ...