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By the Pricking of My Thumbs: A Tommy and Tuppence Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
In this exclusive authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford investigate the strange and troubling doings behind the scenes at a gothic British nursing home.
When Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they think nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada is a very difficult old lady.
But when Mrs. Lockett mentions a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs. Lancaster talks about "something behind the fireplace," Tommy and Tuppence find themselves caught up in a spine-chilling adventure that could spell death for either of them.
Book Details
- Publisher: William Morrow & Company
- Publish Date: Apr 17th, 2012
- Pages: 304
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.30in - 0.90in - 0.48lb
- EAN: 9780062074331
- Categories: • Mystery & Detective - Traditional• Crime• Historical - General
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About the Author
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.
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What people are saying
The more entertaining stuff from the world of rare books, including PG Wodehouse, John le Carre, Ian Fleming, Sir Terry Pratchett, Agatha Christie, Tintin.
New! By the Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie First Edition The Crime Club Collins 1968. £40
Sometimes funny. Always hungry. Quarterfinalist in the 2021 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards Competition and the Genre Screenplay Competition 2022.
Tommy and Tuppence are - and continue to be! - my favorite detectives in the Agatha Christie-verse. "By the Pricking of my Thumbs" is great and has been turned into some kind of miniseries with Miss Marple added in so... Happy Passover to me I guess! #readingforpleasure #reading
Tories are evil ; McAfee are crooks. Live fat, die bored, leave a good-looking book collection. grumpy, avoiding self-pity. Woke. 6 ft 3in . 215 pounds
#books 5340 By The Pricking Of My Thumbs / Agatha Christie (Fontana 1974) the Beresfords (but no Miss Marple as in the TV take) return after a long absence in a story that's simultaneously rompy and sinister in that the killer is driven by madness rather than greed and wickedness
Praise for this book
"Agatha Christie taught me many important lessons about the inner workings of the mystery novel before it ever occurred to me that I might one day be writing mysteries myself." -- Sue Grafton, New York Times bestselling author
"The most memorable and eerie Christie I have read for a long time." -- Sunday Express (London)
What people are saying
The more entertaining stuff from the world of rare books, including PG Wodehouse, John le Carre, Ian Fleming, Sir Terry Pratchett, Agatha Christie, Tintin.
New! By the Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie First Edition The Crime Club Collins 1968. £40
Sometimes funny. Always hungry. Quarterfinalist in the 2021 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards Competition and the Genre Screenplay Competition 2022.
Tommy and Tuppence are - and continue to be! - my favorite detectives in the Agatha Christie-verse. "By the Pricking of my Thumbs" is great and has been turned into some kind of miniseries with Miss Marple added in so... Happy Passover to me I guess! #readingforpleasure #reading