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The Moving Finger
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Series: Collins English Readers
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ISBN10: 0007451636
ISBN13: 9780007451630
Publisher: Collins Educational
Published: Feb 1 2012
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780007451630
Publisher: Collins Educational
Published: Feb 1 2012
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
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 44 foreign languages. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott and saw her work translated into more languages than Shakespeare. Her enduring success, enhanced by many film and TV adaptations, is a tribute to the tCollins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2).Each reader includes: - A CD with a reading of the adapted story
- Helpful notes on characters
- Cultural and historical notes relevant to the plot
- A glossary of the more difficult wordsLymstock is a small town with lots of secrets. Recently several people in the town have received anonymous hate-mail. When Mrs Symmington receives one of the letters and then dies in mysterious circumstances, the people of the town no longer know whom they can trust.Who is writing the letters? And why? Miss Marple helps solve the mystery.imeless appeal of her characters and the unequalled ingenuity of the plots.
- Cultural and historical notes relevant to the plot
- A glossary of the more difficult wordsLymstock is a small town with lots of secrets. Recently several people in the town have received anonymous hate-mail. When Mrs Symmington receives one of the letters and then dies in mysterious circumstances, the people of the town no longer know whom they can trust.Who is writing the letters? And why? Miss Marple helps solve the mystery.imeless appeal of her characters and the unequalled ingenuity of the plots.
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