sleeping murders by agatha christie summary

Gwenda Reed, newly arrived in England from her home in New Zealand is house-hunting in Devon for a suitable residence in which to settle down with her husband of three months who is to join her shortly.

This is one of a handful of retrospective murder mysteries that Agatha Christie wrote that is, the murder being investigated has occurred some years previously. She was also named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1971.Written in 1940, but not published until 1976, Sleeping Murder is Miss Marple’s last case and is a very fitting climax to an amazing career. Christie received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for 1954-1955 for Witness. Christie accompanied Mallowan on annual expeditions to Iraq and Syria, which served as material for Murder in Mesopotamia (1930), Death on the Nile (1937), and Appointment with Death (1938).Ĭhristie's credits also include the plays, The Mousetrap and Witness for the Prosecution (1953 film 1957). Over the years, her travels took her to the Middle East where she met noted English archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan. Poirot, in particular, plays the hero of many of her works, including the classic, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and Curtain (1975), one of her last works in which the famed detective dies. Noted for clever and surprising twists of plot, many of Christie's mysteries feature two unconventional fictional detectives named Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. Some of her most famous titles include Murder on the Orient Express, Mystery of the Blue Train, And Then There Were None, 13 at Dinner and The Sittaford Mystery. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language with another billion in 44 foreign languages. In her lifetime, she authored 79 crime novels and a short story collection, 19 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.

She wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920, launching a literary career that spanned decades. One of the most successful and beloved writer of mystery stories, Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie was born in 1890 in Torquay, County Devon, England. Between them, they were to solve a 'perfect' crime committed many years before.ġ online resource (6 audio files) : digital

In fear, Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs. Despite her best efforts to modernize the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. In Agatha Christie's classic, Sleeping Murder, the indomitable Miss Marple turns ghost hunter and uncovers shocking evidence of a perfect crime.

Sleeping murders by agatha christie summary