E-book exclusive extras:
1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Miss Marple's Final Cases;
2) "The Marples": the complete guide to all the cases of crime literature's foremost female detective.
Despite the title, the stories collected here recount cases from the middle of Misss Marple’s career. They are: ‘Sanctuary’; ‘Strange Jest’; ‘Tape-Measure Murder’; ‘The Case of the Caretaker’; ‘The Case of the Perfect Maid’; ‘Miss Marple Tells a Story’; ‘The Dressmaker’s Doll’; ‘In a Glass Darkly’; ‘Greenshaw’s Folly.’
The Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts): ‘When it all becomes clear as day, the reader can only say, “Now why didn’t I think of that?” But he never does. Mrs Christie at her best.’
Agatha Christie, renowned as the 'Queen of Crime,' is the author of over 100 works, most famously her mysteries featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. Her books have sold over two billion copies worldwide (she is outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare). Most of Agatha Christie's works have been dramatized for television and/or cinema, notably Murder on the Orient Express. Christie's The Mousetrap (1952) is the longest-running play in history and is performed to this day at St. Martin's Theatre in London's West End. Agatha Christie was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1971. She died in 1976. Please visit the official Agatha Christie website: www.agathachristie.com.
