A facsimile first edition hardback of the Poirot books, published to mark the 80th anniversary of his first appearance and to celebrate his new-found success on television. / Market research shows that two out of three of all fiction readers have read an Agatha Christie book, and more than half want to read her again / Follows the popular and acclaimed Miss Marple first edition facsimile series in 2005/6. / Very collectable and affordable at GBP10.00 each. (The successful Ian Fleming/James Bond facsimile editions were GBP25.00 each.) / Sports the original pre-war first edition jackets and offset from genuine first editions, preserving all the original details. / Genuine first editions of these books can fetch up to GBP30,000, making these highly collectable for fans who will never be able to obtain true first editions. / Published to mark the 80th anniversary of Collins first Agatha Christie book, the groundbreaking The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, and marked by Agatha Christie Week in September 2006.
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.
"There is no more cunning player of the murder game than Agatha Christie" Sunday Times "A masterwork of carefully concealed artifice! most stunningly original" Julian Symons
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