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Captain Hastings recounts 18 of Poirot's early cases from the days before he was famous…

  Hercule Poirot delighted in telling people that he was probably the best detective in the world. So turning back the clock to trace eighteen of the cases which helped establish his professional reputation was always going to be a fascinating experience. With his career still in its formative years, the panache with which Hercule Poirot could solve even the most puzzling mystery is obvious.

  Chronicled by his friend Captain Hastings, these eighteen early cases - from theft and robbery to kidnapping and murder - were all guaranteed to test Poirot's soon-to-be-famous ‘little grey cells' to their absolute limit.
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阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂Agatha Christie(1890-1976)
 
  若要在推理文學史上選出一位舉足輕重的「謀殺天后」,阿嘉莎·克莉斯蒂無疑是眾望所歸,這個名字當今已是家喻戶曉、舉世聞名。除了聖經和莎士比亞之外,她是世上銷售量排行最高的作家,其作品翻譯成五十種以上的語言出版,暢銷七十餘國,發行超過二十億冊;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「灰色腦細胞」,已成為智慧的代名詞。
 
  克莉斯蒂本名Agatha May Clarissa Miller,一八九○年出生於英國德望郡,家境富裕但傳統守舊,是家中的么女,孩童時期未曾接受學校教育,在家中由女家庭教師教導學會識字和讀書。她生性害羞,不善表達,便透過音樂及文字創作來抒發情感。在母親的鼓勵下,她大量閱讀各類書籍,並開始創作詩和短篇故事。她的想像力豐富,可以為她的洋娃娃編織家世和成長故事,坐火車時更喜以杜撰車廂乘客的一生自娛。
 
  一九一五年第一次世界大戰期間,克莉斯蒂在醫院擔任藥劑師,此段生涯為她生命中的轉捩點,一來從中學到各類毒藥的專業知識,因而萌生撰寫推理小說的構想,將毒藥的運用融合於小說謎團的設計中,處女作《史岱爾莊謀殺案》因此誕生;二來認識許多顛沛流離的歐洲難民,其中包括比利時人,赫丘勒·白羅的角色雛形,便是在此誕生。
 
  這名沉靜的女子習慣在早晨坐在浴缸內,書寫那匪夷所思的謀殺情節。超過五十年的寫作生涯,克莉絲蒂產量甚豐,平均一年可完成兩部小說,畢生著有六十六部長篇小說、一百五十篇短篇故事、超過二十個劇本,其中〈捕鼠器〉一劇從一九五四年以來,至今仍然在倫敦劇院上演,堪稱是最長壽的舞台劇。她還有好幾部小說被拍成叫好又叫座電影,如《東方快車謀殺案》、《尼羅河謀殺案》、《豔陽下的謀殺案》、《一個都不留》等等,而改編成電視劇的系列影集,更是英國觀眾百看不厭的娛樂享受,成為作品搬上電影、電視大小銀幕數量最多的歐美作家。
 
  一九五四年,克莉絲蒂獲得美國推理作家協會頒贈「推理大師獎」。一九七一年榮獲伊莉莎白二世冊封為爵士,這是推理小說界繼柯南道爾之後獲致這項榮譽的第二人。但這些成就和全球讀者的愛戴比起來,只能算是錦上添花罷了。
 
  一九七六年,克莉絲蒂逝世於英國牛津港,作品至今暢銷不衰。

  作者中文簡介擷取自中譯本《東方快車謀殺案》,遠流出版

  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.
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