?The best opening I ever wrote.? Agatha Christie

?Genuine old-crusted Christie.? Time

?Professional detectives are no match for elderly spinsters? it is hard not to be impressed.? Times Literary Supplement

?one of the most ingeniously contrived of all her murder stories.? Birmingham Post

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.