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Crooked House
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Key facts
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Crime novel
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead and Company
- Publication date
- March 1949
- Publication place
- United Kingdom
- Media type
- Print (hardback & paperback)
- Pages
- 211 pp (first edition, hardback)
- Isbn
- 978-0-00-713686-5
- Preceded by
- The Rose and the Yew Tree
- Followed by
- A Murder Is Announced
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Genre
- detective fiction
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Co.
- Followed by
- Three Blind Mice and Other Stories
- Follows
- The Rose and the Yew Tree
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- language of work or name
- English language
- title
- A Última Razão do Crime
- derivative work
- Crooked House
- form of creative work
- novel
- different from
- "—And He Built a Crooked House—"
- publication date
- 1949-03-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Crooked House is a mystery novel by Agatha Christie first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1949 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 23 May of the same year.
The action takes place in and near London in the autumn of 1947. Christie said the titles of this novel and Ordeal by Innocence were her favourites amongst her own works.
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