Review“Agatha Christie needed to create an exceptional detective to outthink every reader and Hercule Poirot is the result.” (Peter Lovesey, Anthony award-winning author ofStagestruck)“A thundering success….A triumph for Hercule Poirot.” (Daily Mirror (London) )About the AuthorAgatha 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.