Agatha Christie’s exotic seaside mystery thriller
It was not unusual to find the beautiful bronzed body of the sun-loving Arlena Stuart
stretched out on a beach, face down. Only, on this occasion, there was no sun… she had
been strangled.
Ever since Arlena’s arrival at the resort, Hercule Poirot had detected sexual tension in the
seaside air. But could this apparent ‘crime of passion’ have been something more evil and
premeditated altogether?
About the Author
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the bestselling 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.