《派恩探案》是2003年HarperCollins UK出版的图书,作者是Agatha Christie(阿加莎·克里斯蒂)。
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裴金顿太太近来诸事不顺,深感孤单、无助、绝望,但她的命运却因为《泰晤士报》上的一则广告而改变了:
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A collection of short stories featuring the redoubtable 'heart specialist', Parker Pyne. This volume, in its contemporary Agatha Christie Collection livery, perfectly illustrates Agatha Christie's critically acclaimed foray into light-hearted, romantic mysteries. Mrs Packington felt alone, helpless and utterly forlorn. But her life changed when she stumbled upon an advertisement in The Times which read: 'ARE YOU UNHAPPY? IF NOT, CONSULT MR PARKER PYNE'. Equally adept at putting together the pieces of a marriage or the fragments of a murder mystery, Mr Parker Pyne was possibly the world's most unconventional private eye -- and certainly its most charming.
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阿加莎·克里斯蒂,原姓米勒,全名为阿加莎·玛丽·克拉丽莎·米勒,英国乃至世界文坛的侦探小说大师。1890年9月15日生于英国德文郡托基的阿什菲尔德宅邸,1976年1月12日,逝世于英国牛津郡的沃灵福德家中,安葬在牛津郡的圣玛丽教堂墓园,终年85岁。
阿加莎·克里斯蒂的父亲是英籍美国人弗雷德里克·阿尔瓦·米勒,母亲是英国人克拉丽莎·克拉拉·伯契默·米勒。她是家中的的第3个孩子,有1个姐姐玛格丽特·弗蕾莉·米勒和1个哥哥路易斯·蒙坦特·米勒。
阿加莎·克里斯蒂是一名高产的作家,她的作品不仅局限于侦探小说,全部作品包括66部长篇推理小说,21部短篇或中篇小说选集,15个已上演或已发表的剧本,3个剧本集,6部以笔名玛丽·维斯特麦考特发表的情感小说,2部以笔名阿加莎·克里斯蒂·马洛温发表的作品(包括记录异域生活的回忆录1部,宗教题材的儿童读物1部),1部自传,2部诗集,2本与侦探俱乐部的会员作家们合写的长篇推理小说(2本共3部)。阿加莎·克里斯蒂著作数量之丰仅次于莎士比亚。
她的生平事迹,已拍成传记片《阿加莎》。
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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 44 foreign languages. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.
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