Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is the best-selling novelist of all time and the writer the world calls the "Queen of Crime." Born Agatha Miller in Torquay, Devon, she came to fiction on a dare: her sister Madge bet she could not write a convincing detective story, and the result, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introduced the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Her dispensing work in a hospital pharmacy during the First World War, repeated again during the Second, gave her the expert knowledge...
Three Act Tragedy
Three Act Tragedy
Synopsis
At an apparently respectable dinner party, a vicar is the first to die... Thirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actor's house. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, went into convulsions and died. But when his martini glass was sent for chemical analysis, there was no trace of poison - just as Poirot had predicted. Even more troubling for the great detective, there was absolutely no motive...
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Characters
Hercule PoirotProtagonist
The Belgian detective who investigates the deaths.
Sir Charles CartwrightSupporting
A retired actor hosting the dinner party where the first death occurs.
Mr. SatterthwaiteSupporting
Poirot's friend who helps investigate.
Hercule Poirot
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Three Act TragedyUnknown, 2002
13 pages
HarperCollins UKLanguage: EnglishISBN: 9780007120901
