The hollow;: A Hercule Poirot mystery [Hardcover]

Agatha Christie (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1946

Agatha Christie's ingenious mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Lucy Angkatell invited Hercule Poirot to lunch. To tease the great detective, her guests stage a mock murder beside the swimming pool. Unfortunately, the victim plays the scene for real. As his blood drips into the water, John Christow gasps one final word: 'Henrietta'. In the confusion, a gun sinks to the bottom of the pool. Poirot's enquiries reveal a complex web of romantic attachments. It seems everyone in the drama is a suspect -- and each a victim of love.

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"A grade-A plot -- the best Christie in years" San Francisco Chronicle --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

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 over 100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 3 pages
• Publisher: Dodd, Mead & company; 1St Edition edition (1946)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0006AQWT2
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,410,660 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Agatha Christie was born in 1890 and created the detective Hercule Poirot in her debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920). She achieved wide popularity with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) and produced a total of eighty novels and short-story collections over six decades.

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A very eerie, atmospheric mystery, September 3, 2000

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This review is from: The Hollow (Hercule Poirot) (Paperback)

I love this mystery--I'm not certain why. Normally I would hate it, but there's something in the strange eeriness of it all that really made me read.

Determined scientist John Christow is dissatisfied with his life--he has a rather stupid, insecure but sweet-natured wife and two brainy kids, and an artist lover named Henrietta Savernake, whose first love is her sculptures, much to his chagrin. He wants sometimes to break away from his family and the sick people that he must deal with.

When they go to an old mansion for the weekend, the coolly passionate Henrietta is not the only lover there--John's old actress girlfriend who wants him as a boy-toy is present, and she doesn't want to take "no" for an answer. Then John turns up dead.

Hercule Poirot and Henrietta seek to unravel the mystery of John's death, with totally unexpected results. What's really special about this mystery is that the emotions of the characters carry it along, rather than simply following clues and giving Poirot insights. It's rather unusual for Christie to write a novel/mystery rather than a straight mystery, but it's not unenjoyable.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Probably the best Christie, December 4, 1998

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This review is from: The Hollow (Hercule Poirot) (Paperback)

This book is very different from other Christie's book and is much better. For once, her characters are not simple caricatures easy to forget. They have real, deep feelings, they suffer, and the reader believe in that. The book acts like a charm that makes the reader enter in it deeper than in other Christie's work. The mystery plot is surprising but not really important. What is important is the picture of three or four key characters (only women, by the way). That makes this book closer to PD James work. Highly recommended.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the best, March 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Hollow (Hercule Poirot) (Paperback)

This is really the best AC novel. The characters are frightening real. Especialy Lady Lucy, Gerda Christow and Henrietta Savernake, the leading ladies in this novel. The plot is surprising, though not very superb. But this book isn't a whodunnit, but a real novel. Absolutely worth reading!!