Agatha Christie
501) In the shadow of Agatha Christie: classic crime fiction by forgotten female writers : 1850-1917
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xx, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This new anthology brings the female crime writers who inspired Agatha Christie out of her shadow and back into the spotlight they deserve. The success of writers like Anna Katherine Green in America; L.T. Meade, C.L. Pirkis, the Baroness Orczy, and Elizabeth Corbett in England; and Mary Fortune in Australia opened doors for the women authors who followed them. While Agatha Christie may still reign supreme, the genre would be much poorer without the...
502) The mirror crack'd
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Miss Marple tackles an assembly of suspects in a homicide on the set of an American extravaganza being filmed in England.
Author
Series
And Then There Were None volume 3
Language
English
Description
The number of guests has shrunk to five after yet another murder, and the remaining few have lost nearly all hope of survival. With further acts of terrible violence all but guaranteed, they decide to revel in their final hours. But will help from the mainland arrive at last?
Author
Series
And Then There Were None volume 2
Language
English
Description
As the body count rises, the progress of the killings seems to correlate with an ominous nursery rhyme, "Ten Little Soldier Boys." Accusations fly, dark secrets are revealed, and the guests' mutual suspicion gives way to a sense of collective doom.
Author
Series
And Then There Were None volume 1
Language
English
Description
In 1939, as the world teeters on the brink of war, 10 strangers are persuaded to retreat from their troubled lives to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. When they are cut off from the mainland by a storm, the true reason for their presence soon becomes horribly clear.