The trouble starts when a teenager is found drowned in the bucket used for bobbing for apples. Stephen King? No, Agatha Christie!
When apple bobbing goes bad, if Agatha Christie is telling the story it will go bad in a big way and the investigation will be fraught with all of the emotional complications, personality flaws and greedy motives that are her trademarks.
Agatha Christie is widely acknowledged as the Queen of Crime.
The Guinness Book of World Records proclaims her the best-selling writer of fiction of all time, and the best-selling writer of any kind second only to William Shakespeare.
In the hopes of attracting a whole new generation of mystery readers, twenty four of her titles are slated to be reprinted in bold and appealing designs over the next two years by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers.
Christie had a great fondness for Miss Jane Marple, a character believed to be based on her grandmother.
It is interesting, however, to note that although Christie confided to her diary that she had always found Poirot insufferable, the Belgian detective’s titles outnumber the Marple titles by more than two to one.
