Mrs. McGinty's Dead

''The best Poirot since such prewar classics as Cards on the Table .'' -- New York Times ''The plot is perfect and the characters are wonderful.'' -- San Francisco Chronicle

Auteur

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.