Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. She wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in Romance. THE AUTHOR: Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.Īgatha Christie is the best-selling author of all time. I loved it, and didn’t even come close to guessing who was actually responsible.
She steps outside her normal boundaries and hits a massive home run in my opinion. If you are used to reading her Marple or Poirot offerings, Crooked House will come as quite a surprise. But that would be fat too easy a solution…… Suspicion naturally falls upon the elderly man’s young and beautiful widow who is, supposedly, enamoured with the tutor. Everyone in the household is a suspect, has a motive, and the opportunity. Her characters are almost caricatures, yet they suit this particular story admirably.Ĭrooked House is actually quite dark for an Agatha Christie tale. She certainly doesn’t hold back at poking a bit of fun at the rich and aristocratic. MY THOUGHTS: Crooked House is one of my very favourite Christies. And he’s certain that in a crooked house such as Three Gables, no one’s on the level… But criminologist Charles Hayward is casting his own doubts on the innocence of the entire Leonides brood. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years his junior, set to inherit a sizeable fortune, and rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor comfortably ensconced in the family estate. ‘One brother, one sister, a mother, a father, an uncle, an aunt by marriage, a grandfather, a great-aunt, and a step-grandmother.’ĪBOUT THIS BOOK: In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. ‘Are you one of a large family? Brothers and sisters?’ But definitely crooked – running to gables and half-timbering!’ ‘ ‘And they all lived together in a little crooked house.’ That’s us. I must have looked slightly startled, for she seemed amused, and explained by elaborating the quotation.
She added softly in a musing voice: ‘In a little crooked house….’ I nodded at the mention of the well known outer suburb of London which boasts three excellent golf courses for the city financier. ‘I don’t even know where you live in England.’ EXCERPT: ‘….For one thing, you don’t know much about me, do you?’
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