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Murder is Easy

Agatha Christie

  • 223 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1939
  • 95 editions
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1 About this book

Luke Fitzwilliam, a retired colonial policeman has returned to England and chances to converse on a train with a woman who reminds him of a favorite aunt. She informs him that she is reporting three murders to Scotland Yard and is hoping to prevent a fourth, that of a village doctor. Before she can do so, she is killed by a car, and a short time later the doctor she mentioned is killed. Fitzwilliam decides to investigate these five deaths.

  • Serial murder investigation
  • Serial murders
  • Mystery
  • Mystery & detective, traditional
  • Mystery & detective, police procedural
  • Mystery & detective, women sleuths
  • Police
  • Jane Marple

2 About Agatha Christie

1890–1976

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan, Lady Mallowan (née Miller, 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), usually known by her first married name, Agatha Christie, was an English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot (with the novel debut being The Mysterious Affair at Styles in 1920), Tommy and Tuppence (with the novel debut being The Secret…

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