The Monogram Murders: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery: 43 (Hercule Poirot Mysteries) - Softcover

Hannah, Sophie; Christie, Agatha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062326082 ISBN 13: 9780062326089

Publisher: Harper Large Print, 2014

Synopsis

Pub Date: 2014-09-09 Pages: 496 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins The bestselling novelist of all time The world s most famous detective The literary event of the year.Since the publication of her first novel in 1920. more than.. two billion copies of Agatha Christie s novels have been sold around the world. Now. for the first time ever. the guardians of her legacy have approved a brand-new novel featuring Dame Agatha s most beloved creation. Hercule Poirot.In the hands of internationally bestselling author Sophie Hannah. Poirot plunges into a mystery set in 1920s London -. a diabolically clever puzzle sure to baffle and delight Christie s fans as well as readers who have not yet read her work Written with the full backing of Christie s family. and featuring the most iconic detective of all time. this new novel is a major event for mystery lovers the world over.

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Review:

"Sophie Hannah is a prodigious talent. I can't wait to see what she does next."--Laura Lippman

"Sophie Hannah's idea for a plot line was so compelling and her passion for my grandmother's work so strong, that we felt that the time was right for a new Christie to be written."--Mathew Prichard, grandson of Agatha Christie

"Equal parts charming and ingenious, dark and quirky and utterly engaging...I was thrilled to see Poirot in such very, very good hands. Reading The Monogram Murders was like returning to a favorite room of a long-lost home."--Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl

"Sophie Hannah's The Monogram Murders does Christie proud. Our favorite detective is back and in impeccable form!"--Charles Todd, New York Times bestselling author of An Unwilling Accomplice

"Sophie Hannah does an egoless, silky job of reviving Agatha Christie's beloved Belgian detective Hercule Poirot...enough so to hope that Hannah turns to Miss Marple next."--USA Today

"Sharply written and rigorously plotted, this Poirot mystery rivals many of Christie's own."--NPR

"Perfect...a pure treat."--Tana French, New York Times-bestselling author of The Secret Place

"Terrific.... uncanny. As Hercule Poirot himself would say, 'Bravo, Madame Hannah. Bravo.' "--Boston Globe

"Christie herself, some might say, could do no better.... Enough twists, turns, revelations and suspects to cook up a most satisfying red-herring stew. Literary magic."--Washington Post

"Does Sophie Hannah's Poirot live up to our expectations? Yes, he does, and markedly so.... As tricky as anything written by Agatha Christie. The Monogram Murders has a life and freshness of its own. Poirot is still Poirot. Poirot is back."--Alexander McCall Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

From the Back Cover:

The bestselling novelist of all time.

The world's most famous detective.

The literary event of the year--an all-new mystery featuring

Agatha Christie's legendary hero Hercule Poirot.

Since the publication of her first novel in 1920, more than two billion copies of Agatha Christie's books have been sold around the globe. Now, for the first time ever, the guardians of her legacy have approved a brand new novel featuring Dame Agatha's most beloved creation, Hercule Poirot.

'I'm a dead woman, or I shall be soon...'

Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified - but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done.

Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a fashionable London Hotel have been murdered, and a cufflink has been placed in each one's mouth. Could there be a connection with the frightened woman? While Poirot struggles to put together the bizarre pieces of the puzzle, the murderer prepares another hotel bedroom for a fourth victim...

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Large Print
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0062326082
• ISBN 13: 9780062326089
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464