![]() ![]() Murders is that the third-person narrative is supposedly reconstructed by the first-person narrator, Hastings. Christie had previously experimented with this approach (famously pioneered by Charles Dickens in Bleak House), in her novel The Man in the Brown Suit. The form of the novel is unusual, combining first- and third-person narrative. ![]() The book features the characters of Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. In book form, it was first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on Januand in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company on February 14 of the same year. The story was also serialised in the UK in the Daily Express from. Murders is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie which was first published in an abridged form in the US Cosmopolitan magazine in Nov 1935. Dust-jacket illustration of the first UK edition ![]()
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