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Le point de vue de l'éditeur Quelle drôle d'idée! Rassembler pour des vacances à La Pointe aux Mouettes l'ex-Mrs Strange - Mrs Audrey depuis son divorce - et Kay, la nouvelle tenante du titre, sous le prétexte d'en faire des amies ... C'est de l'inconscience, pour ne pas dire plus. Car enfin, l'époux de ces dames n'a quand même pas la naïveté de croire qu'elles vont tomber dans les bras l'une de l'autre. D'ailleurs, si ces tigresses ne se sont pas encore écharpées, c'est qu'elles se retiennent. Pour l'instant. Les vertus calmantes de l'air marin, sans doute ... Mais les choses n'en resteront pas là. Deux Mrs Strange sous le même toit, c'est une de trop ... Biographie[s] d'auteur[s] Agatha Christie, dont les 80 livres se sont vendus à plus de 2 milliards d'exemplaires dans le monde, est la reine du roman policier à énigmes. Ses héros les plus célèbres (Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple) s'attaquent aux crimes les plus mystérieux avec flegme, décontraction - et cette touche d'humour anglais qui rend l'atmosphère des romans d'Agatha Christie inimitable.
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Fiction, Police, Superintendent Battle (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories, Detectives, Large type books, Translations into Indonesian, English fiction, English literature, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, England, fiction, British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author), Zhen tan xiao shuoTimes
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2002, Librairie des Champs-Elysées
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What is the connection between a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and the romantic life of a tennis player? To the casual observer, apparently nothing. When a houseparty gathers at Gull's Point, the seaside home of an elderly widow, earlier events come to a dramatic head.Robert Graves, author of I Claudius, was a neighbour of Agatha Christie's in Devon during the Second World War and the two became friends. Christie dedicated this book to Graves: "Dear Robert, Since you are kind enough to say you like my stories, I venture to dedicate this book to you. All I ask is that you sternly restrain your critical faculties (doubtless sharpened by your recent excesses in that line!) when reading it. This is a story for your pleasure and not a candidate for Mr Graves' literary pillory!" The book was dramatised by Agatha Christie and Gerald Verner. It was adapted for TV in 2007 with Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple.
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