Poirot: The Perfect Murders: Omnibus

• Dame Agatha Christie is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the World’s Bestselling Author. With between 2 and 4 billion works sold, she is bested only by William Shakespeare and the Bible. Christie is also the most translated novelist in history.

• Agatha Christie’s play The Mousetrap has the longest theatrical run, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. It opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London on November 25, 1952. It continues to this day.

• At one point in her successful career, Mrs. Christie actually owned eight different houses. Many of these houses were “used” as the houses in several of her novels.

• Charles Dickens was Agatha’s favorite author.

• Christie wrote her first detective story after being challenged by one of her older sisters.

• Six publishers rejected her first manuscript before it was eventually published in 1920. She eventually received £25 for it.

• During WWII, she worked in a hospital pharmacy. She there began acquiring a knowledge of poisons that would serve her novels well.

Enjoy a video with some interesting facts about her most famous character, Hercule Poirot in the video below.

The Labours of Hercules
Author: Agatha Christie
ISBN:9780007280513

In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet—reasoned the detective—like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters.

So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot made up his mind to accept just twelve more cases: his self-imposed ‘Labours’. Each would go down in the annals of crime as a heroic feat of deduction.

Price: 12,9 GEL

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Poirot: The Perfect Murders: Omnibus
Author: Agatha Christie
ISBN:9780007190645

A brand new Poirot omnibus, featuring four of the world-renowned detective’s most challenging cases: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express, Murder in the Mews and Hercule Poirot’s Christmas.

It seems Hercule Poirot can never escape murder – and in this collection, the crimes are probably the finest he has ever had to solve. Locked rooms, wealth and jealousy – outwardly all very similar, but when the detective begins to dig, the motives and solutions couldn’t be more different…

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
In the quiet village of King’s Abbot, a wealthy widower is found stabbbed to death in his study…

Murder on the Orient Express
A wealthy American dies of multiple stab wounds on a train bound for Paris…

Murder in the Mews
A widow is murdered in her apartment…

Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
A sadistic old man is brutally murdered in his locked study…

Price: 12,9 GEL

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The theme for this week is about Agatha Christie, who was an English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright.

She is the world’s best-selling mystery writer, and often referred to as the “Queen of Crime”, Agatha Christie is considered a master of suspense, plotting, and characterisation. She is also best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, which revolve around the investigations of such characters as Hercule Poirot, Miss Jane Marple, Mr Satterthwaite, and Tommy and Tuppence.

Most of her books and short stories have been adapted for television, radio, video games and comics, and more than thirty feature films have been based on her work.

Below is a clip from her most famous character, Hercule Poirot.

This week we celebrate authors of the past who had birthdays in the month of September. Check them out below.

Truman Capote

(September 30, 1924- August 25, 1984)

Capote wrote favorites such as:

Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Children on Their Birthdays

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Agatha Christie

(September 15, 1890- January 12, 1976)

Appointed the title of “Dame” by the Queen of England, she is also the best-selling author of all time with books like:

The Labours of Hercules and Poirot: The Perfect Murders: Omnibus

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Roald Dahl

(September 13, 1916- November 23,1990)

Few children’s authors have been as influential and prolific as Roald Dahl. Some of his works include:

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as well as Matilda

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

(September 24, 1896- December 21, 1940)

Fitzgerald captured the Jazz Age in many novels such as:

The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories

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Ken Kesey

(September 17, 1935- November 10, 2001)

Kesey gained fame for his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

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H.G. Wells

(September 21, 1866- August 13, 1946)

Regarded as “the father of science fiction”, Wells wrote many novels, including:

The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds

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