1976 Sleeping Murder

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

Published posthumously, but written in the 1940's. This was the final 'new' Agatha Christie novel to be published. This novel is set in the 1930's where Miss Marple aids a young couple who choose to uncover events in the wife's past life, and not let sleeping murder life. Christie's well known elderly detective, Miss Marple, was based on her own step-Grandmother and her cronies. Agatha Christie is one of the most prolific crime writers of the twentieth century. Her work consists of 66 detective novels, 150 short stories and 19 plays; she is the writer of the world's longest running play, The Mousetrap which has been on stage since 1952. Christie is also one of the bestselling novelists of all time and her works rank highly in the most-widely published books.