Il segreto di Greenshore

I liked it. Adriane Oliver calls Poirot because of some nebulous bad feelings she has while organizing a 'staged murder' for a village fete that is being hosted by a very reputable family. Greenshore Folly was an earlier shorter version of Dead Man's Folly that was published posthumously. There are di Leggi tutto

This novella is the first draft (or I should say " version ", since only later Christie thought to make a novel out of it) of the Poirot novel Dead Man's Folly , which I read years ago and which I remember as one of the very few Poirot cases whose solution I didn't exactly appreciated -I've always felt Leggi tutto

It was originally written in 1954 to raise money for stained glass window at Church at Chrston Ferrers where Christie used to come regularly. However The Greenshore Folly novella was never published as it found no takers. It was later expanded into a full novel by Christie in Dead Man's folly. She s Leggi tutto

Βρήκανε ένα ξεχασμένο μεγαλούτσικο αφήγημα της Κρίστι-ούτε διήγημα, αλλά ούτε και νουβέλα- του βάλανε δύο (2) προλόγους και έναν (1) επίλογο να αυγατίσει από ατζέντηδες, εικονογράφους, βιογράφους κλπ, το εκδώσανε σε μέγεθος σπιρτόκουτου με μέγεθος γραμματοσειράς για 60αρηδες μύωπες ελέφαντες, ε βουα Leggi tutto

This previously unpublished novella is basically an earlier, more condensed version of Christie’s full length mystery “Dead Man’s Folly”, released a year or so after this version was written. There are no significant plot deviations, and no alternate solution, unlike some other works in which the au Leggi tutto

Quando la "caccia all'assassino" organizzata per divertimento finisce in un vero omicidio, Poirot non può che far luce su quello che si nasconde a Greenshore House. Un racconto lungo con un finale davvero sorprendente. La storia dietro a questo racconto è molto curiosa. Scritto nel 1954 per raccoglie Leggi tutto

Tenho de fazer uma opinião ao livro. Sim, ao livro... enquanto... objecto. Não sou apenas uma leitora, gosto muito de capas bonitas de livros, gosto de coleccionar livros e gosto de procurar sempre a edição mais bonita do livro que quero ler. Então, posto isto, assim que vi o cuidado que a Asa empenho Leggi tutto

"Have you ever reflected, Madame, on the enormous part that hearsay plays in life 'Mr. A said, ' 'Mrs. B told us, ' 'Miss C explained why --' and so on. And if the known facts seem so fit with what we have been told, then we never question them. There are so many things that do not concern

For reasons I won’t go into, Dame Agatha Christie was unable to publish this tale in its original novella format and it eventually became the novel Dead Man's Folly . The story suffers not at all for its abbreviated form, and, whether you’ve already enjoyed Dead Man’s Folly , as I have, or you’re comi Leggi tutto