Name: El Misterio de la Guía de Ferrocarriles
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Author: Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9786070776984

portada El Misterio de la Guía de Ferrocarriles

Type

Physical Book

Author

Agatha Christie

Publisher

Booket

Pages

264

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9786070776984

Edited in

México

Edition No.

2021

Synopsis "El Misterio de la Guía de Ferrocarriles"

Cuando Hércules Poirot recibe una carta que lo desafía a solucionar un crimen inminente, cree que se trata sólo de una broma de mal gusto. Pero, aun así, su intuición le hace temer lo peor? Y no se equivoca: Alice Ascher, una cantinera de Andover, es asesinada el día anunciado en la misiva. Después de ella, el misterioso asesino amenaza a una segunda víctima, esta vez en Bexhill. Y luego, a una tercera, en Churston. Parece que las víctimas no guardan relación entre sí y que el diabólico criminal, que firma como A.B.C., las elige siguiendo un riguroso orden alfabético. El mejor detective de la historia está decidido a evitar que el misterioso asesino complete el abecedario?

Agatha Christie

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Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller (Torquay, September 15, 1890-Wallingford, January 12, 1976), known as Agatha Christie, was a British writer and playwright specialized in the detective genre, for which she gained international recognition. Throughout her career, she published 66 detective novels, 6 romance novels, and 14 short stories —under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott—, in addition to venturing as a playwright in works such as The Mousetrap or Witness for the Prosecution.

Born into an upper-middle-class family, she received a private education until her adolescence and studied at various institutes in Paris. While working as a nurse during World War I, she wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), where she first introduced the character of detective Hercule Poirot. Other creations were Miss Marple and Tommy and Tuppence Beresford.

In 1914, she married Archibald Christie, from whom she divorced in 1928. In 1926, affected by a supposed depression, she mysteriously disappeared after her car was found abandoned on the side of the road. She was found eleven days later with a possible case of amnesia, in a hotel where she registered under the name of her husband's lover. In 1930, she married archaeologist Max Mallowan, whom she accompanied for long periods on his trips to Iraq and Syria. Her stays inspired several of her later novels such as Murder in Mesopotamia (1936), Death on the Nile (1936), and Appointment with Death (1938), many of which were adapted into theater and film with high acceptance. In 1971, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II. She died of natural causes in 1976.

With between two and four billion copies of her works sold, Christie is considered the best-selling novelist of all time, and, along with William Shakespeare, the first or second author to do so (albeit with twice as many works). According to the Index Translationum, she is the most translated individual author, with editions in at least 103 languages. In 2013, her work The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was chosen as the best crime novel of all time by 600 members of the Crime Writers' Association.

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Mauricio Moreno Tuesday, November 28, 2023
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Me sorprendió que el libro llegase rápidamente. Agradezco la variedad de los libros en el catálogo y el estado de calidad en el que ellos llegan. En lo personal estuve buscando este libro por bastante tiempo y fue muy satisfactorio el proceso el proceso de la compra así como recibirlo. Gracias por el servicio brindado.
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Jonathan Aguilar Saturday, December 07, 2024
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No se puede pedir mas en esta historia, el misterio te mantiene de principio a fin hasta el punto de querer devorar el libro en horas
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