The Labours of Hercules | Agatha Christie | 2014 | englisch
A Classic Hercule Poirot Mystery
Autor: Agatha Christie
Format: kartoniert
Seitenanzahl: 381
Verlag: Harper Collins Publ. UK
Erscheinungsdatum: 20140313
Sprache: englisch
Genre: Importe
Serie: Hercule Poirot
Höhe in mm: 30
Länge in mm: 198
Breite in mm: 126
Gewicht in g: 288
Beschreibung
Portrait
Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.
Poirot sets himself a challenge before he retires - to solve 12 cases which correspond with the labours of his classical Greek namesake...
In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet - reasoned the detective - like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters.
So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot made up his mind to accept just twelve more cases: his self-imposed 'Labours'. Each would go down in the annals of crime as a heroic feat of deduction.
Portrait
Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.