One of Agatha Christie's finest novels, which has finally been made into a film, adapted by Julian Fellowes and starring Glenn Close, Terence Stamp, Gillian Anderson, Stefanie Martini, Max Irons and Christina Hendricks. 'People more often kill those they love, than those they hate...' The Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. At least they were, until the wealthy grandfather, Aristide, is murdered with a fatal injection of barbiturates. Suspicion naturally ...
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One of Agatha Christie's finest novels, which has finally been made into a film, adapted by Julian Fellowes and starring Glenn Close, Terence Stamp, Gillian Anderson, Stefanie Martini, Max Irons and Christina Hendricks. 'People more often kill those they love, than those they hate...' The Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. At least they were, until the wealthy grandfather, Aristide, is murdered with a fatal injection of barbiturates. Suspicion naturally falls on the old man's young widow, fifty years his junior and suspected of having an illicit affair. While Scotland Yard struggles to find clues, the murderer has not anticipated the determination of Charles Hayward, fianc??? of the millionaire's granddaughter, to solve the crime from the inside...
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Near fine. No Dj as issued. Near fine condition. Planet Three Publishing, 2000-2004. Pictorial brown hardback with black borders(a couple of small scratches and nicks on the cover) in near fine condition, no Dj as issued. Nice and clean pages with light shelf wear on the outer edges.192pp. This is another paragraph The Leonides family all live together in a not-so-little crooked house. But which of them poisoned the patriarch, Aristides? Murder in the extended family always provided fertile ground for Christie, and this was one of her own favourites. Another example of a sinister reinterpretation of a nursery rhyme with an ending that her publishers initially considered too shocking, even for Agatha Christie.
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Fair. No Jacket. 12m0. Penguin First Edition, green bands to head/foot of front cover, Mystery & Crime No 925. Soft covers edgeworn and rubbed in places, sellotape repairs to head/foot of spine, ghost sticker to reading edge of front cover, closed edges and spine browned, some light spotting to rear cover, feint pencil inscription to rear cover, internal gutters cracked but pp secure in binding, some browning to edges of pages but text clear to read.
