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Sad Cypress

Sad Cypress

by Agatha Christie

FictionHercule Poirot (Fictitious character)Private investigatorsDetective and mystery storiesHistorical Fiction
4.1
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Cousins by marriage and lovers by inclination, Roddy and Elinor were the ideal match. He loathed any display of emotion, while she was composed at all times. Then they got an anonymous letter warning that their rich Aunt Laura was thinking of cutting them off, and their perfect world vanished. Roddy did the unthinkable, and fell in love. And Elinor found herself charged with murder. When Hercule Poirot is hired to uncover the truth, even the inimitable Belgian detective is stumped. For a time.

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FictionHercule Poirot (Fictitious character)Private investigatorsDetective and mystery storiesHistorical FictionMystery

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Setting

EnglandBelgium

About the author

Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie

15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976

Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, in the United Kingdom, the daughter of a wealthy American stockbroker. Her father died when she was eleven years old. Her mother taught her at home, encouraging her to write at a very young age. At the age of 16, she went to Mrs. Dryden's finishing school in Paris to study singing and piano. In 1914, at age 24, she married Colonel Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. While he went away to war, she worked as a nurse and wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), which wasn't published until four years later. When her husband came back from the war, they had a daughter. In 1928 she divorced her hus…

Author

Agatha Christie

Pages

240

Read time

≈ 6h

Editions

86

Languages

English, French, Spanish

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

ISBN

9788324592791

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