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The Monogram Murders is the first original novel featuring Hercule Poirot to be commissioned by the Christie estate, more than thirty-eight years after Christie's death in 1976. [1] [2] [3] It is the thirty-fourth novel to feature Poirot. Curtain, the last Poirot novel published by Christie, was published in 1975. [2]
Peril at End House is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by the Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1932 [1] and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in March of the same year. [2] The US edition retailed at $2.00 [1] and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). [2]
In Chapter 12, Miss Van Schuyler mentions to Poirot a common acquaintance, Mr. Rufus Van Aldin, known from The Mystery of the Blue Train. In Part II, Chapter 21 of the novel, Poirot mentions having found a scarlet kimono in his luggage. This refers to the plot in Murder on the Orient Express.
The Poirot books are still under copyright in the United Kingdom. The Mysterious Affair at Styles , The Murder on the Links and Poirot Investigates are now public domain in the US but will not become public domain in the UK until 2046 (70 years after Christie's death).
The review compared the methods of detection of Poirot to Sherlock Holmes and concluded favourably that the book "provides the reader with an enthralling mystery of an unusual kind". [ 5 ] The New York Times Book Review of 25 March 1923 began, "Here is a remarkably good detective story which can be warmly commended to those who like that kind ...
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Three Act Tragedy is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1934 under the title Murder in Three Acts [1] [2] and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in January 1935 under Christie's original title. [3]
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