Death Comes As the End
In this startling historical mystery, unique in the author's canon, Agatha Christie investigates a deadly mystery at the heart of a dissonant family in ancient Egypt. Imhotep, wealthy landowner and priest of Thebes, has outraged his sons and daughters by bringing a beautiful concubine into their...
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In this startling historical mystery, unique in the author's canon, Agatha Christie investigates a deadly mystery at the heart of a dissonant family in ancient Egypt. Imhotep, wealthy landowner and priest of Thebes, has outraged his sons and daughters by bringing a beautiful concubine into their fold. And the manipulative Nofret has already set about a plan to usurp her rivals' rightful legacies. When her lifeless body is discovered at the foot of a cliff, Imhotep's own flesh and blood become the apparent conspirators in her shocking murder. But vengeance and greed may not be the only motives...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312981617 (0312981619)
Publish date: April 15th 2002
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Egypt
Christie embarks on a fun, but not entirely successful, foray into historical mystery. This book is unique in the Christie canon in that it is her only book set in antiquity. I'm not sure if this represents the first example of a historical mystery, but certainly I'm not aware of any golden age wr...
This is Agatha Christie's foray into a historical fiction murder mystery. It takes places around 2000 BCE, and it got off to a rough start. Renisenb comes off as too simple for words at the start and there seems to be a fair dose of authorial judgement going on when believing in the many Egyptian go...
“All life is a jest, Imhotep - and it is death who laughs last. Do you not hear it at every feast? Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you die.” Death Comes as the End is Dame Agatha's only historical mystery and she makes full use of her in-depth knowledge of Ancient Egypt. The detail of Egypti...
Gekürzte Kurzbeschreibung.Die ganze Geschichte beginnt mit der dramatischen Erläuterung der Charaktere von der Familie Imhoteps. Er selbst ist herrschsüchtig und manchmal dumm, glaubt ans Übernatürliche. Er hat die Tochter Renisenb, die Söhne Sobeks, Yahmose und Ipy. Renisenb ist sehr empfindsam ...
This is probably more like 3.5 stars because I was expecting more clues and detecting, and what I got was more character based drama and introspection, with a side order of body count and murder. Ms. Christie is very very good at making the characters in her mysteries into three-dimensional people, ...
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