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Agatha Christie

"Writing 'Wicked House' was a pure pleasure and I feel it is fair to say that it is one of my best novels," said Agatha Christie after publishing "Wicked House," one of her best crime novels, in 1949.

In a spacious, half-timbered house in the affluent suburb of Swinley Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. Accident? Unlikely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his flamboyant widow, a wily beauty fifty years his junior, who is set to inherit a considerable fortune and is rumored to be seeing a burly young tutor, comfortably housed on the family estate. But criminologist Charles Hayward has his own doubts about the innocence of the entire Leonides brood. He knows them intimately. And he is certain that no one in the corrupt household is honest...

Original title

Crooked house

Translation

Vlado Opačić

Editor

Danica Vujnović

Graphics design

Ivo Friščić

Dimensions

20 x 13 cm

Pages

246

Publisher

Globus, Zagreb, 1976.

Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.

Language: Croatian.

One copy is available

Condition:Used, excellent condition

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