The Mysterious Affair at Styles 斯泰尔斯庄园奇案 9780007119271

　　Agatha Christie launches the legendary career of Hercule Poirot with this classic tale of intrigue. Did one of the Cavendish brothers poison their stepmother, Mrs. Iglethorp, or was it her new husband? Nadia May reads with such a delightful English accent, intonation, and careful pacing that the suspense and drama build gradually. Each character is easily distinguishable and a treat to listen to, especially Poirot. This baffling tale with many characters is a bit difficult to follow but well worth the effort. The compulsion to discover the truth is motive enough for all listeners. S.C.A. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. 作者简介： Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime．Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in 100 foreign languages．She is the most widely publiShed author of all time and in any language，outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare．She is the author of 80 crime novel and short story coUections，19 plays,and six novels written under the narne of Mary Westrmacott． Agatha Christie’S fast novel,The Mysterious Affair at Styles,was written towards the end of the First Wold War．in which she served as a VAD．In it she created Hercule Poiroh the little Belgian detective who was destined tO become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes．It was eventually published by The Bodley Head in 1920. In 1926，after averaging a book a year，Agatha Christie wrote her masterpiece．The Murder ofRoger Ackroyd was the first of her books tO be published by Collins and marked the beginning of an author-pubfisher relationship which‘lasted for 50 years and well OVer 70 books．Murder of Roger Ackroyd was also the first of Agatha Christie's books to be dramatised—under the name Alibi-and to have a successful run in London’S West End．The Mousetrap,her most famous play of all，opened in 1952 and is the longest-running play in history． Agatha Christie was made a Dame in l971．She died in 1976，since when a number of books have been published posthumously：the bestselling novel Sleeping Murder appeared later that year,followed by her autobiography and the short story collections Miss Marple's Final Cases，Problem at Pollensa Bay and While the Light lasts．In 1998 Black Coffes WaS the first of her plays tO be novelised by another author,Charles Osbome．