{"id":2509,"date":"2026-01-03T22:33:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/while-the-light-lasts-christie-agatha\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T22:33:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:33:34","slug":"while-the-light-lasts-christie-agatha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/while-the-light-lasts-christie-agatha\/","title":{"rendered":"While the Light Lasts – Christie, Agatha"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Agatha Christie, the original<\/span> Queen of Crime, still reigns supreme as the greatest and best known writer of the classical detective story. Her most famous novel, and very possibly the most famous of all detective stories, is The Murder of Roger Ackroyd<\/span> (1926) in which she outraged the critics and, by doing so, established herself in the first rank of writers in the genre. That case was solved by Hercule Poirot, late of the Belgian Police Force, who appeared in 33 novels including Murder on the Orient Express<\/span> (1930), The ABC Murders<\/span> (1936), Five Little Pigs<\/span> (1942), After the Funeral<\/span> (1953), Hallowe\u2019en Party<\/span> (1969) and Curtain: Poirot\u2019s Last Case<\/span> (1975). Christie\u2019s own favourite among her detectives was Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster who appeared in 12 novels, including The Murder at the Vicarage<\/span> (1930), The Body in the Library<\/span> (1942), A Pocket Full of Rye<\/span> (1953), A Caribbean Mystery<\/span> (1964) and its sequel Nemesis<\/span> (1971), and finally in Sleeping Murder<\/span> (1976), which like Curtain<\/span> had been written during the Blitz nearly 30 years earlier. And among the 21 novels that do not feature any of Christie\u2019s series detectives are And Then There Were None<\/span>\u2013originally published as Ten Little Niggers<\/span>\u2013(1939), in which there is no detective at all, Crooked House<\/span> (1949), Ordeal by Innocence<\/span> (1959), and Endless Night<\/span> (1967).<\/p>\n

In a career that lasted more than half a century, Christie wrote 66 novels, an autobiography, six \u2018Mary Westmacott\u2019 books, a memoir of her expedition to Syria, two books of poetry, another of poems and children\u2019s stories, more than a dozen stage and radio mysteries and around 150 short stories. This new collection brings together nine stories that, with a couple of exceptions, have not previously been reissued since their original publication (in some cases, 60 to 70 years ago). Poirot appears in two stories, \u2018The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest\u2019 and \u2018Christmas Adventure\u2019. These are Christie\u2019s original versions of two novellas included in the collection The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding<\/span> (1960). \u2018The Edge\u2019 is a tense psychological story and \u2018The Actress\u2019 involves a clever deception. The enigmatic \u2018Within a Wall\u2019 and \u2018The Lonely God\u2019 are romantic stories, dating from the earliest years of Christie\u2019s career; and there is a spice of the supernatural in \u2018The House of Dreams\u2019 and \u2018While the Light Lasts\u2019. Finally, there is \u2018Manx Gold\u2019, a story whose form and concept was unique in its time but which has since become very popular all over the world.<\/p>\n

Nine stories that all display the inimitable style of Agatha Christie. A true banquet for connoisseurs!<\/p>\n

Tony Medawar
London<\/span>
December 1996<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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