The Body in the Library

　　清晨七點鐘，班崔夫婦走進書房，發現一具陌生年輕女人的屍體。她穿著晚宴裝，臉上濃妝豔抹，只是此刻看來是污跡斑斑。

　　她是哪家的小姐呢？她又是怎麼闖進的？她與後來那個在鑿石場發現的女焦屍有關嗎？

　　寧靜村莊接連發現陌生女屍，似乎牽涉到某人陳年之恩怨。

　　班崔夫婦曾領教過瑪波小姐的推理神功，想趁謠言還未在村莊興風做浪之前，趕緊將風波壓下去。

　　瑪波小姐這次如何畫龍點睛地直指案情核心？請耐心地步步跟進！

　　★本書中譯本《藏書室的陌生人》由遠流出版

　　Agatha Christie’s world-famous Miss Marple mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. It’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing evening dress and heavy make-up, which is now smeared across her cheeks. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is the connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry? The respectable Bantrys invite Miss Marple to solve the mystery! before tongues start to wag.

作者簡介

阿嘉莎．克莉絲蒂（一八九○ ~ 一九七六）

　　英籍女作家、劇作家。本名Agatha May Clarissa Miller，生於德望郡（Devon），家境富裕而傳統守舊，是家中的么女。生性害羞，孩童時期未曾接受學校教育，由女家庭教師教導學會識字和讀書。在母親的鼓勵下，大量閱讀各種書籍，並開始創作詩和短篇故事。

　　一九一五年第一次世界大戰期間，克莉絲蒂在醫院擔任藥劑師，從中學習各類毒藥的專業知識，並萌生撰寫推理小說的構想，處女作《史岱爾莊謀殺案》因此誕生。她創造的比利時私家偵探赫丘勒．白羅，是人氣歷久不衰的神探，其著名的「灰色的腦細胞」，已成為超人智慧的代名詞。

　　五十年的寫作生涯中，克莉絲蒂共完成六十六部小說、一百多篇短篇小說、十七個劇本，以一百零三種文字行銷全世界，共賣出二十億冊以上。她有好幾部小說被拍成叫好叫座的電影，如《東方快車謀殺案》、《尼羅河謀殺案》；她寫的劇本《捕鼠器》，從一九五四年以來，至今仍在倫敦劇院上演，堪稱是最長壽的舞台劇。如今克莉絲蒂這個名字，已涵蓋兩種意義：一為「推理小說」的同義字，二者是「謀殺之后」的殊榮。

　　Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.