“There has never been, and probably never will be, a P.I. more fun to observe and listen to, than Hercule Poirot.” (Joseph Wambaugh, New York Times bestselling author )

“Makes uncommonly good reading.” (New York Times )

“Mrs. Christie at the top of her form.” (Dorothy L. Sayers, Sunday Times (London) )

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in one hundred foreign countries. She is the author of eighty novels and short-story collections, nineteen plays, and six novels under the name Mary Westmacott. She died in 1976.