Name: La Casa Torcida (in Spanish)
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Author: Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9788467065015

Type

Physical Book

Author

Agatha Christie

Publisher

Booket

Collection

Biblioteca Agatha Christie

Year

2022

Language

Spanish

Pages

240

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19x12.5 cm

ISBN13

9788467065015

Edited in

España

Synopsis "La Casa Torcida (in Spanish)"

Tres generaciones de la familia del multimillonario griego Aristide Leonides conviven en una curiosa mansi¢n de estructura inclinada,entre ellas, la joven y hermosa segunda esposa del patriarca, ySophia, su m s avispada nieta, cuyo futuro suegro es comisario depolic¡a. Cuando Aristide aparece muerto, probablemente envenenado, las sospechas recaer n sobre todos los miembros de la familia. Sophiaexigir entonces a Charles, su prometido, que haga lo posible poresclarecer el asesinato, ya que no podr n casarse hasta que el asuntose resuelva. El inspector jefe de Scotland Yard Taverner se har cargo de un caso en el que ninguno de los sospechosos tienecoartada.

®Una maestra de los giros inesperados.¯New Statesman

®Escribir Lacasa torcida fue un placer de principio a fin, y creo poder afirmar que es una de mis mejores obras¯, Agatha Christie

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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