Agatha Christie Collection - 3 Novels And 25 Short Stories. Agatha Christie

CHAPTER XIV - The Second Body

       CHAPTER XV - A Photograph

       CHAPTER XVI - The Beroldy Case

       CHAPTER XVII - We Make Further Investigations

       CHAPTER XVIII - Giraud Acts

       CHAPTER XIX - I Use My Grey Cells

       CHAPTER XX - An Amazing Statement

       CHAPTER XXI - Hercule Poirot On The Case

       CHAPTER XXII - I Find Love

       CHAPTER XXIII - Difficulties Ahead

       CHAPTER XXIV - “Save Him!”

       CHAPTER XXV - An Unexpected Denouement

       CHAPTER XXVI - I Receive A Letter

       CHAPTER XXVII - Jack Renauld’s Story

       CHAPTER XXVIII - Journey’s End

       SHORT STORIES

       The Affair At The Victory Ball

       The Curious Disappearance Of The Opalsen Pearls

       The Adventure Of The King Of Clubs

       The Disappearance Of Mr Davenheim

       The Mystery Of The Plymouth Express

       The Adventure Of The Western Star

       The Tragedy At Marsdon Manor

       The Kidnapped Prime Minister

       The Million Dollar Bond Robbery

       The Adventure Of The Cheap Flat

       The Mystery Of Hunter’s Lodge

       The Clue Of The Chocolate Box

       The Adventure Of The Egyptian Tomb

       The Case Of The Veiled Lady

       The Kidnapping Of Johnnie Waverly

       The Market Basing Mystery

       The Adventure Of The Italian Nobleman

       The Case Of The Missing Will

       The Submarine Plans

       The Adventure Of The Clapham Cook

       The Lost Mine

       The Cornish Mystery

       The Double Clue

       The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

       The Lemesurier Inheritance

       AGELESS READS NOTE :

      This book contains 3 Novels and 25 Short Stories by Agatha Christie, which were first published between the years 1920 and 1923.

      All the stories included in this book are in the Public Domain, in the USA.

      If additional works of fiction are discovered or pointed out, they will be added whenever they happen to become available.

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      PREFACE

      Agatha Christie’s novels are renown for being tightly worked detective novels. In total there are sixty-six of them but this collection contains two of the best, Mysterious Affair at Styles and The Secret Adversary.

      These detective novels she wrote under her own name along with fourteen short story collections, but she has also published six romances under the name Mary Westmacott. She is best known for her detective novels and these tend to focus on much loved characters Hercule Poirot, Jane Marple, Parker Pyne, Harley Quin/Mr Satterthwaite, and Tommy and Tuppence Beresford.

      Like many authors, Agatha Christie was unsuccessful at getting her work published first off, but in 1920 The Bodley Head press published her first novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles. This featured the prominent character Hercule Poirot and kick-started her literary career.

      Christie’s detective novels have given her the title of ‘Queen of Crime’ since she introduced of number of motifs into the genre which became classics. The genre of detective novels now pretty much follows the path laid by Christie: a murder is committed, there are several suspects who are all concealing their own secrets, the detective slowly uncovers these personal secrets over the course of the story and discovers a shocking twist towards the end. Agatha Christie novels pride themselves on shocking the reader. The culprits are so varied and usually the least suspecting person involved. They range from children to policemen and from narrators to people who have already died.

      At the end of most Agatha Christie novels the investigator will gather the surviving suspects into a single room and explain the course of his thinking. He will reveal the guilty person, usually to the surprise of several others in the room, although there are a few exceptions.

      There are certain flaws to the genre of realism, however, because they all work on such a tightly bound framework. By reading too many you can become pretty good at working out the twists. Many of the characters also fill stereotypes and so it can feel like reading the same novel on repeat. These stereotyped descriptions were more regular before the end of the Second World War, when such attitudes were more commonly expressed publicly, and focus largely around Italians, Jews, non-Europeans, and sometimes Americans, the last of which are usually described as impossibly naïve or uninformed.

      The repeatability factor is more to be said for modern detective novels than Agatha Christie’s