Crooked House

Agatha Christie

Oct 2010 · HarperCollins UK

About this eBook

A wealthy Greek businessman is found dead at his London home...

The Leonides were one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That was until the head of the household, Aristide, was murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection.

Suspicion naturally falls on the old man’s young widow, fifty years his junior. But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward, fiance of the late millionare’s granddaughter...

Ratings and reviews

This book is truly "crooked" with "crooked" characters and apparently have "crooked" motives to kill Aristide Leonides. The starting part of the book till the last four five chapters, in my view, were actually boring as the plot progress was a bit slow. The characters were interesting and the narration was okay, so that's what made me read the entire book. But the climax...... Oh my goodness!!! Again, somebody is made the murderer but the real murderer is beyond our wits. Interesting book.

Story begins where a man proposes a girl, girl can't marry right now, because her grandfather just died. But she had a suspect that her grandfather were murdered, and murderer is inside her CROOKED HOUSE.. Will the murder will be caught? What may be motive? Read this book, to find out. Filled with twist and turns you would not have imagined ☺

What can I say about this book? Honestly I don't know! Well you'll be introduced into the world of the Leonides family through the eyes of Charles Hayward, the fiancé of Sophia Leonides. After the war Hayward had returned to England in hope to finally marry his true love, Sophia. However, to his dismay she says she cannot marry him until the murder of her 88 year old flamboyant Greek grandfather Aristide Leonides is solved. Charles now works alongside his father (who is usually referred in the book as the "Old Man" by the way) and Chief Inspector Taverner to try and figure out the intriguing case. To Charles' surprise he finds out that Sophia's family is incredibly puzzling. Well first of all Charles didn't even know that Sophia was the granddaughter of one of the biggest business tycoons known. And the fact that her whole 3 generation family loves in that Crooked House that the late Arsitide Leonides built himself. He also learns of the of the marriage between Aristide and Brenda who is fifty years YOUNGER than him. But did she really do it. There's a crooked house with a crooked family, filled with crooked motives intending for the death of a crooked man.

About the author

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 100 foreign languages. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.