Select your day, on orders placed before 14:00 (Mon-Fri) Nominated day or Saturday/Sunday delivery* Parcelforce normally offer a one hour delivery window via SMS or Email.ĭelivery Charges for items sold by JarroldĭPD Upgrade (upgrade to DPD express delivery) Standard delivery orders are usually sent with either Royal Mail and Parcelforce. We aim to dispatch all items which are in stock on the same working day when orders are received by 14:00. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign countries. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes.

About the AuthorĪgatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Unfortunately, before he could finish the letter, he was stabbed to death. Now, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with a drug overdose.īut the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her.

He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. Agatha Christie's most daring crime mystery - an early and particularly brilliant outing of Hercule Poirot, `The Murder of Roger Ackroyd', with its legendary twist, changed the detective fiction genre for ever.

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