Crooked house
By: Agatha Christie
Edition: Center Point large print ed.
Series: Center Point large print
Publisher: Center Point Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Thorndike, Me
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781611732337
Subjects: Jane Marple (Fictitious character); Large type books; Women detectives; Fiction
Table of contents: title: Three generations of the Leonides family live together under wealthy patriarch Aristide. His first wife died; her sister Edith has cared for the household since then. His second wife is the indolent Brenda, decades his junior, who exchanges love letters with the grandchildren's tutor. After Aristide is poisoned by his own eye medicine (eserine), his granddaughter Sophia tells narrator and fiancé Charles Hayward that they cannot marry until the killer is apprehended. Charles' father "The Old Man" is the Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard, so Charles investigates from the inside along with assigned detective, Chief Inspector Taverner. When sly Josephine suffers attack and Nanny is poisoned by hot chocolate after Brenda and the tutor are arrested, the danger escalates to a surprise finish.