Crooked house
(2011, original release: 1949)
Fiction
Large Type
Call Numbers:
LARGE TYPE/MYSTERY/CHRISTIE,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., 2011
EDITION
Center Point large print edition
DESCRIPTION
270 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781611732337 (lg. print), 1611732336 (lg. print)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
First published in 1949
In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years his junior, set to inherit a sizable fortune, and rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor comfortably ensconced in the family estate. But Scotland Yard criminologist Charles Hayward is casting his own doubts on the innocence of the entire Leonides brood. He knows them intimately. And he's certain that in a crooked house such as Three Gables, no one's on the level