The Greenway Collection: Dead Man’s Folly, Five Little Pigs, Ordeal by Innocence - Softcover

Christie, Agatha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007364490 ISBN 13: 9780007364497

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2010

Synopsis

A special boxed set of the three Agatha Christie novels set in or around her home of Greenway House in Devon.

DEAD MAN’S FOLLY:
Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fête, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well known crime writer, agrees to organise their murder hunt. But at the last minute Ariadne calls her friend Hercule Poirot for his expert assistance. Instinctively, she senses that something sinister is about to happen...

FIVE LITTLE PIGS:
Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects: Philip Blake (the stockbroker) who went to market; Meredith Blake (the amateur herbalist) who stayed at home; Elsa Greer (the three-time divorcee) who had roast beef; Cecilia Williams (the devoted governess) who had none; and Angela Warren (the disfigured sister) who cried ‘wee wee wee’ all the way home. It is sixteen years later, but Hercule Poirot just can’t get that nursery rhyme out of his mind...

ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE:
No one felt sorry when Jacko Argyle died in prison. Everyone knew he killed his mother by striking her over the head with a poker from the fire. But when a doctor turns up at the house two years afterwards with proof of Jacko's innocence, the whole family is horrified. Because it can mean only one thing - that their mother's killer is still among them...

About this title

Review:

‘The solution is of the colossal ingenuity we have been conditioned to expect.’ Times Literary Supplement

‘Mrs Christie as usual puts a ring through the reader’s nose and leads him to one of her smashing last-minute showdowns.’ Observer

‘The answer to the riddle is brilliant.’ Times Literary Supplement

About the Author:

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0007364490
• ISBN 13: 9780007364497
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 976