P. Tromp-Palmer Libros

A lo largo de 56 años de actividad creadora, Agatha Christie (1890-1976) escribe 81 novelas policiacas que, traducidas a multitud de idiomas, con más de trescientos millones de ejemplares vendidos, la sitúan entre los escritores más comerciales del mundo. También escribe algunas novelas sentimentales con el pseudónimo Mary Westmacott, un libro de recuerdos bajo el nombre de Agatha Christie Malowan, y adapta varias de sus novelas al teatro, entre las que destaca La ratonera por alcanzar un éxito excepcional. Varias de sus novelas son el origen de películas tan conocidas como Testigo de cargo (Billy Wilder, 1958), Asesinato en el Oriente Express (Sidney Lumet, 1974) y Muerte en el Nilo (John Guillermin, 1978). Entre 1950 y 1965 escribe una larga autobiografía, que sólo se ha publicado recientemente por expresa prohibición suya de que no apareciera hasta después de su muerte.

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‘My brother George was in his chair by the fireplace. His right temple, the whole of that side of his head, was smashed. I did not take it in immediately, but there was a large crystal of uncut amethyst lying on the floor at his side. It usually stood on the desk for use as a paperweight. It looked as if Harte had snatched it up and hit out wildly.’ ‘My lord!’ Maitland was on his feet. ‘My learned friend will agree with me that that is a most improper remark.’ Antony Maitland’s client is Malcolm Harte, a nice, hard-working young man—and an accused murderer. Harte was a jeweler’s assistant, until the night when a fortune in jewels disappeared and the jeweler himself was found murdered. Then Malcolm Harte went on trial for his life, with the evidence strongly against him. Even Maitland is not very sure of his client’s innocence, but he decides to see what he can uncover in his own investigations. A brilliant addition to the chronicles of Antony Maitland, the detective-barrister who challenges lawyers and criminals on their own ground. “The jury, passing on the prisoner’s life, May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try.” —Measure for Measure, Act II, scene i