Name: El truco de los espejos (in Spanish)
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Author: Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9786070787959

portada El truco de los espejos (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Agatha Christie

Publisher

booket

Year

2022

Language

Spanish

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9786070787959

Edition No.

Synopsis "El truco de los espejos (in Spanish)"

Ruth van Rydock está muy preocupada por Carrie-Louis, su hermana, de modo que le pide a su vieja amiga Miss Marple que se acerque hasta Stonygates, la laberíntica mansión donde vive junto a su tercer marido, Lewis Serrocold, para comprobar que todo va bien. Al llegar, Miss Marple se encuentra en medio de una excéntrica casa, donde conviven bajo el mismo techo una extraña familia y un reformatorio para jóvenes criminales, donde la violencia apenas parece percibirse. Sin embargo, la calma aparente se transforma en una tormenta cuando se cometa un crimen, y Miss Marple tendrá que utilizar todo su ingenio para desenmascarar al asesino y poner en evidencia su plan.

Agatha Christie

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Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller (Torquay, September 15, 1890-Wallingford, January 12, 1976), known as Agatha Christie, was a British writer and playwright specialized in the detective genre, for which she gained international recognition. Throughout her career, she published 66 detective novels, 6 romance novels, and 14 short stories —under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott—, in addition to venturing as a playwright in works such as The Mousetrap or Witness for the Prosecution.

Born into an upper-middle-class family, she received a private education until her adolescence and studied at various institutes in Paris. While working as a nurse during World War I, she wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), where she first introduced the character of detective Hercule Poirot. Other creations were Miss Marple and Tommy and Tuppence Beresford.

In 1914, she married Archibald Christie, from whom she divorced in 1928. In 1926, affected by a supposed depression, she mysteriously disappeared after her car was found abandoned on the side of the road. She was found eleven days later with a possible case of amnesia, in a hotel where she registered under the name of her husband's lover. In 1930, she married archaeologist Max Mallowan, whom she accompanied for long periods on his trips to Iraq and Syria. Her stays inspired several of her later novels such as Murder in Mesopotamia (1936), Death on the Nile (1936), and Appointment with Death (1938), many of which were adapted into theater and film with high acceptance. In 1971, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II. She died of natural causes in 1976.

With between two and four billion copies of her works sold, Christie is considered the best-selling novelist of all time, and, along with William Shakespeare, the first or second author to do so (albeit with twice as many works). According to the Index Translationum, she is the most translated individual author, with editions in at least 103 languages. In 2013, her work The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was chosen as the best crime novel of all time by 600 members of the Crime Writers' Association.

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