Книга: Sophie Hannah «The Monogram Murders»

The Monogram Murders

The new Hercule Poirot novel - another brilliant murder mystery that can only be solved by the eponymous Belgian detective and his 'little grey cells'. Since the publication of her first book in 1920, Agatha Christie wrote 33 novels, two plays and more than 50 short stories featuring Hercule Poirot. Now, for the first time ever, the guardians of her legacy have approved a brand new novel featuring Dame Agatha's most beloved creation. Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffee house is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified, but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done. Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at the fashionable Bloxham Hotel have been murdered, a cufflink placed in each one's mouth. Could there be a connection with the frightened woman? While Poirot struggles to put together the bizarre pieces of the puzzle, the murderer prepares...

Издательство: "HarperCollins Publishers" (2014)

Формат: 155x235, 384 стр.

ISBN: 978-0-00-754742-5

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Sophie Hannah

Sophie Hannah (born 1971, Manchester, England) is an award-winning English-born poet and novelist. From 1997 to 1999 she was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, and between 1999 and 2001 she was a junior research fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. She currently resides with her family in West Yorkshire.

Biography

Sophie Hannah's father is the academic and author Norman Geras and her mother is the author Adéle Geras. She was educated at the University of Manchester and published her first book of poems, "The Hero and the Girl Next Door" at the age of 24. Her style is often compared the light verse of Wendy Cope and the surrealism of Lewis Carroll. Her poems' subjects tend toward the personal, utilizing classic rhyme schemes with understated wit, humour and warmth.

In 2004, she was named as one of the Poetry Book Society's Next Generation poets. Her poems are studied at GCSE, A-level and degree level across the UK.

Poetry

*"Early Bird Blues", 1993 (Limited Edition Pamphlet)
*"Second Helping of Your Heart", 1994 (Limited Edition Pamphlet)
*"The Hero and the Girl Next Door", Carcanet Press 1995
*"Hotels Like Houses", Carcanet Press 1996
*"Leaving and Leaving You", Carcanet Press 1999
*"Love Me Slender: Poems About Love", 2000
*"First of the Last Chances", Carcanet Press 2003
*"Selected Poems", 2006
*"Pessimism for Beginners", Carcanet Press 2007

Children's Books

*"The Box Room, Poems for Children"
*"Carrot the Goldfish" (1992)

Crime Fiction

*"Little Face" (2006)
*"Hurting Distance" (2007)
*"The Point of Rescue" (2008)

hort Story Collections

*"The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets" (2008)

Fiction

*"The Superpower of Love", 2002
*"Cordial and Corrosive: an unfairy tale", 2000
*"Gripless", 1999

Translation

*"The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My" by Tove Jansson
*"Who Will Comfort Toffle?" by Tove Jansson

External links

* [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth187 Contemporary Writers]
* [http://www.sophiehannah.com Sophie Hannah Official Website]
* [http://www.carcanet.co.uk Carcanet Press, Sophie Hannah's Poetry Publishers]

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