The Mystery of the Blue Train: A Positronic Book - Paperback

Christie, Agatha: - Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was an English novelist, short-story writer, and playwright whose extraordinary command of plotting, misdirection, and character made her one of the defining figures of detective fiction. Over the course of a career spanning more than five decades, she created two of the genre's most enduring detectives, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, and became one of the most widely read authors in the world.Christie published her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920, introducing Hercule Poirot. She went on to write more than sixty detective novels as well as numerous short-story collections and plays. Her work helped establish many of the conventions associated with the Golden Age of detective fiction while repeatedly finding inventive ways to subvert them. Novels such as The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, and And Then There Were None remain among the best-known mysteries ever written.Her fiction is distinguished by tightly controlled structure, carefully planted clues, memorable settings, and a remarkable ability to conceal solutions in plain sight. Christie was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1971 for her contribution to literature. Her books have been translated into scores of languages, adapted repeatedly for stage, film, radio, and television, and continue to shape how readers think about the detective novel.