The Burden - Softcover

Westmacott, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006168817 ISBN 13: 9780006168812

Publisher: Fontana Press, 1986

Synopsis

ENGLISH , 192pp , ABOUT THE AUTHOR :: Christie published almost eighty novels and plays , mainly of arguments which involved one of its main characters, Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple . Although he liked to vary the established form of detective story one of his first book , The Death of Roger Ackroyd , is renowned for its particular outcome , putting emphasis on " play fair with the reader " to ensure deliver on their stories all the information to solve the riddle. The frame structure , based on the tradition of enigma to discover, is always similar , and its development is based on the observation psicológica.44 One of the main features of detective prose Christie is that their stories are developed in is called the whodunit , allowing the reader to test hypotheses and in short, trying to decipher the identity of the culprit before finishing reading the story. Agatha Christie was devoted to writing since the end of World War II, when he created his character Hercule Poirot , the Belgian detective meticulous ; since been one of the most popular detectives from Sherlock Holmes. Your room at the Hotel Pera Palace , where he wrote Murder on the Orient Express . Several of his books were published posthumously , including his autobiography in two volumes , written between 1950 and 1965.45 In addition to detective writer Agatha Christie wrote six romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott , some plays and a book of poems Agatha Mary Clarissa .46 ... Miller , DBE (Torquay , September 15, 1890 - Wallingford, January 12, 1976 ) , better known as Agatha Christie, was an English writer specializing in the police and romantic genres, whose work received international recognition . Although he also wrote short stories and plays, his 79 novels and dozens of short stories have been translated into almost every language , and several adapted for film and theater . Its classic characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple were very popular . His four billion novels sold

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Review:

‘Sometimes you haven’t the right currency. And then someone else has to pay...’ Agatha Christie

‘The art of story-telling that would be at home in the woman’s magazine.’ Times Literary Supplement

About the Author:

Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime for her 80 ingenious crime books and her plays. Writing anonymously as Mary Westmacott, she also wrote about crimes of the heart, a series of six bittersweet novels with a jagged edge, as compelling and memorable as the best of her work.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fontana Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0006168817
• ISBN 13: 9780006168812
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192