Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890
and became, quite simply, the best-selling
novelist in history. Her first novel, The
Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards
the end of the First World War, introduced us
to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the
most popular detective in crime fiction since
Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout
the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books
have sold over a billion copies in the English
language and another billion in over 100
foreign countries. She is the author of 80
crime novels and short story collections, 19
plays, and six novels under the name of Mary
Westmacott.
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Agatha Christie’s sensational mystery thriller set in her Devonshire homeland.
On holiday in Cornwall, Poirot meets a pretty young woman with an unusual name, ‘Nick’ Buckley.
Upon discovering a bullet-hole in Nick’s sun hat, the great detective decides the girl needs his protection. He also begins to unravel the mystery of a murder that hasn’t been committed. Yet.
