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By the Pricking of My Thumbs: A Tommy & Tuppence Mystery Paperback – 1 Jan. 2015
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An old woman in a nursing home speaks of a child buried behind the fireplace…
When Tommy and Tuppence visited an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they thought nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada was a very difficult old lady.
But when Mrs Lockett mentioned a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs Lancaster talked about ‘something behind the fireplace’, Tommy and Tuppence found themselves caught up in an unexpected adventure involving possible black magic…
Agatha Christie's book 'Marple' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 12-09-2022.
- ISBN-100007590628
- ISBN-13978-0007590629
- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date1 Jan. 2015
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions12.9 x 2 x 19.8 cm
- Print length304 pages
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‘The most macabre and eerie Christie I have read for a long time.’
Sunday Express
‘All beautifully plotted in the way that Mrs Christie is famous for. The title is from Macbeth: “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” Wicked indeed!’
Best Sellers
‘Ladies disappearing from homes of rest, sinister empty houses, hints of gang-leaders mixed with black magic – mystery at the usual high Christie level.’
Evening Standard
‘Devised with fiendish ingenuity in the classic Christie cast.’
Illustrated London News
About the Author
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 over 70 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 novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.
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- Publisher : HarperCollins (1 Jan. 2015)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 304 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0007590628
- ISBN-13 : 978-0007590629
- Dimensions : 12.9 x 2 x 19.8 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 63,848 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 370 in Medical Thrillers (Books)
- 2,488 in British Detective Stories
- 3,565 in Fiction Classics (Books)
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Born in Torquay in 1890, Agatha Christie began writing during the First World War and wrote over 100 novels, plays and short story collections. She was still writing to great acclaim until her death, and her books have now sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in over 100 foreign languages. Yet Agatha Christie was always a very private person, and though Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple became household names, the Queen of Crime was a complete enigma to all but her closest friends.
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