Murder found on the Orient Express - by Agatha Christie - Audio Book CD
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About Murder found on the Orient Express
Travelling found on the Orient Express, Poirot is approached by a eager American called Ratchett. Afraid that somebody plans to kill him, Ratchett asks Poirot for aid. Sadly the rather upcoming day Ratchett's worst worries become fact, when he is found dead in his cabin, a victim of numerous stab wounds. With nothing but a scrap of paper to go on, Poirot should piece together Ratchett’s identity before he may establish which of his fellow passengers murdered him.
The movie adaptation of the novel was created in 1974 and won an Oscar for Ingrid Bergman. At that time it was the many lucrative British movie ever prepared, grossing income of over £20million.
About Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), commonly recognised as Agatha Christie, was an English crime fiction author of novels, brief stories and plays. She furthermore wrote romance novels under the name Mary Westmacott, but is ideal remembered for her 80 detective novels and her lucrative West End theatre plays. Her functions, very featuring detectives Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple, have provided her the title the 'Queen of Crime' and created her among the most crucial and innovative writers in the development of the genre.
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay, in the county of Devon, as the daughter of Frederick Alvah Miller, an American with a moderate private money, and Clarissa Miller. Her dad died when she was a child. Agatha Christie was educated house, where her mom encouraged her to write from extremely early age. At sixteen she was transmitted to school in Paris where she studied singing and piano.
Christie has been called — by the Guinness Book of World Records, among others — the best-selling author of books of all time and the best-selling author of any type, together with William Shakespeare. Just the Bible is recognized to have outsold her accumulated sales of about 4 billion duplicates of novels. UNESCO states that she is currently the many translated individual writer in the globe with just the collective business functions of Walt Disney Productions superseding her.. As an illustration of her wide appeal, she is the all-time best-selling writer in France, with over 40 million duplicates sold in French (as of 2003) versus 22 million for Emile Zola, the closest contender.
Her stage play, The Mousetrap, holds the record for the longest initial run in the planet, opening at the Ambassadors Theatre in London on 25 November 1952, and as of 2008 remains running after over 20,000 performances. In 1955, Christie was the initially recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's highest honor, the Grand Master Award, and in the same year, Witness for the Prosecution was provided an Edgar Award by the MWA, for Best Play. Many of her books and brief stories have been filmed, some various occasions over (Murder found on the Orient Express, Death found on the Nile, four.50 From Paddington), and several have been adapted for tv, radio, games and comics. |
