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Crooked House is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1949 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in May of the same year. The UK edition retailed at eight shillings and sixpence. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), mainly known as Agatha Christie, was an English crime fiction writer. ...
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The Collins Crime Club was an imprint of UK book publishers William Collins & Co Ltd and ran from May 1930 to April 1994. ...
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See also: 1948 in literature, other events of 1949, 1950 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
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A Murder is Announced is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in June 1950 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. ...
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Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), mainly known as Agatha Christie, was an English crime fiction writer. ...
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See also: 1948 in literature, other events of 1949, 1950 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
The Collins Crime Club was an imprint of UK book publishers William Collins & Co Ltd and ran from May 1930 to April 1994. ...
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The action takes place in and near London in the autumn of 1947. Christie has said that this was one of her two favorites of her own works, the other being Ordeal by Innocence. Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Ordeal by Innocence (published in 1958) is a detective novel by Agatha Christie, which is regarded by critics as one of her best works, and was also one of her two favorites of her own novels, the other being Crooked House. ...
Plot summary
The first person narrator is Charles Hayward who, towards the end of the Second World War, occupies some post in Cairo. There he meets Sophia Leonides, who works for the Foreign Office there. They fall in love with each other but put off getting engaged until after the end of the war when they will be reunited back home in England. The Narrator is the entity within a story that tells the story to the reader. ...
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When Hayward arrives back home it is only to find an obituary in The Times: Sophia's grandfather, Aristide Leonides, has died, aged 87. Due to the war, the whole family has been living together under one roof, in a large house near London, among them Leonides' second wife, whom many in the family dislike and see as nothing more than a gold digger. The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom since 1788. ...
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When the news is broken that Aristide Leonides has been poisoned, via a diabetic injection, Charles is unwittingly drawn into the case. This article is about the disease that features high blood sugar. ...
The obvious suspects are Brenda Leonides herself, no longer willing to wait for her inheritance, and Laurence Brown, a conscientious objector who also lives in the house as private tutor to Eustace and Josephine, Sophia's younger brother and sister. Rumour has it that Brenda Leonides and Brown have been carrying on an illicit love affair right under old Leonides's nose. In fact all family members want them to be the murderers because it would be the easiest way out for them and the family's good name would not suffer. Charles agrees to help his father, an Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard, investigate the crime, when no interviews can lead conclusively to any one suspect. It has been suggested that Conscientious objection throughout the world be merged into this article or section. ...
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The Leonides family are a strange lot: Edith de Haviland, Aristide's unmarried sister-in-law, came to stay with him after his first wife's death in order to supervise his children's upbringing. Roger, the eldest son and always Aristide's favourite, is a failure as businessman and has steered the catering business bestowed to him by his father to the brink of bankruptcy; his wife Clemency, an austere-looking scientist, has never been able to enjoy the wealth offered by her husband's family. Philip, Roger's younger brother, has suffered all his life under his father's preference for Roger and retreated into a distant world of books and bygone historical epochs, spending all his waking hours in the library of the house. Philip's wife Magda is a modestly successful actress to whom everything, even a murder in the family, is a stage show in which she wants to play a leading part. 16 year-old Eustace still suffers from the aftereffects of some childhood disease, but otherwise is just an ordinary boy. His sister Josephine, aged 12, on the other hand, is exceptionally ugly to look at and preoccupied with detective stories, which she has been devouring for some time.
Things get complicated when Charles learns that Leonides redrafted his will to leave everything to Sophia, and when someone attempts to kill Josephine, who has been bragging that she knows the identity of the killer. But, even after hidden love letters are discovered and Brenda and Laurence are arrested, worse things begin to happen as Josephine's nanny dies after drinking a poisoned cup of cocoa originally intended for Josephine, and the family realizes that the killer is still among them. The skull and crossbones symbol (Jolly Roger) traditionally used to label a poisonous substance. ...
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As events unravel and begin to take form, Edith de Haviland drives her car with Josephine off a cliff, instantly killing both. Back at the house, Charles finds two letters; one for Chief Inspector Taverner from de Haviland admitting to the murders of Aristide, the nanny and Josephine, and her own suicide. The other letter, written by de Haviland to Charles for his own personal eyes and contained the truth of the murderer's identity - Josephine. It also contains her notebook, in which the first line reads "To-day I killed grandfather."
External links - Crooked House at all-about-agatha-christie.com
Nursery rhyme The title is a reference to a nursery rhyme ("There was a Crooked Man"), a common theme of Christie's. A nursery rhyme is a traditional song or poem taught to young children, originally in the nursery. ...
There Was a Crooked Man. ...
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