Name: La Casa Torcida (in Spanish)
SKU: 50035891
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Author: Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9788467051643

Type

Physical Book

Author

Agatha Christie

Publisher

Booket

Collection

Biblioteca Agatha Christie

Year

2018

Language

Spanish

Pages

240

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19x12.5 cm

ISBN13

9788467051643

Edited in

España

Synopsis "La Casa Torcida (in Spanish)"

Tres generaciones de la familia del multimillonario griego Aristide Leonides conviven en Inglaterra bajo el mismo techo: una curiosamansión de estructura inclinada. Una multitud de personajes seentremezcla en los pasillos y las estancias de la casa, incluidas lajoven y hermosa Brenda, segunda esposa del anciano patriarca, ySophia, su más avispada nieta, cuyo futuro suegro es comisario depolicía. Sin embargo, la paz hogareña se trunca cuando Aristide esenvenenado. Las sospechas recaen sobre todos los miembros de lafamilia.

¿Quién es el asesino?
El misterio estáservido.

«Escribir La casa torcida fue un placer de principio afin, y creo poder afirmar que es una de mis mejores obras», AgathaChristie

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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