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  • I read many of Christie's books in Chinese back in my high school days. I was addicted to it at the time. This is the first time I read her book in English. I have to admit that it's quite different to read it in English. There are some expressions that I am not familiar with especially those are pa ... Continue

    I read many of Christie's books in Chinese back in my high school days. I was addicted to it at the time. This is the first time I read her book in English. I have to admit that it's quite different to read it in English. There are some expressions that I am not familiar with especially those are paticularly used in UK. However, I feel that I can read more close to the characters and understand a bit more.
    This one story is a very unique one and a great challenge to the readers. The clues are quite clear but you won't find out who the muderer is as easy as the story takes a surprising turn. I was totally blown out by the outcome at the end and can't wait to start my next Chiristie book.

    

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• ― jrchang (jrchang) said on May 31, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • clueless to the end

    

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  • I purchased this and began reading it. I thought it required knowing bridge to solve the mystery. Yet, seeing how many folks have this on their list and the popularity of the book, it is perhaps a different reason why I did not complete this. I will pick this up at some point.

    

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• ― Batona said on Mar 25, 2007 about the Paperback edition| 1 feedback| 1 feedback

First, there were ten--a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal--and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. And only the dead are above suspicion.AUTHORBIO: Agatha Christie is the world's best-known mystery writer. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in 44 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her writing career spanned more than half a century, during which she wrote 80 novels and short story collections, as well as 14 plays, one of which, The Mousetrap, is the longest-running play in history. Two of the characters she created, the brilliant little Belgian Hercule Poirot and the irrepressible and relentless Miss Marple, went on to become world-famous detectives. Both have been widely dramatized in feature films and made-for-TV movies. Agatha Christie also wrote romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. As well, she wrote four non-fiction books including an autobiography and an entertaining account of the many expeditions she shared with her archaeologist husband, Sir Max Mallowan. Agatha Christie died in 1976.

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