Twisted House
(Agatha Christie)
A twisted, badly proportioned and grotesque house rises in a well known London suburb.It appears that a curse fell down on its inhabitants, a family lead by the millionaire Aristides Leonides. Witch of his relatives did murder him? His wife? One of his children? His grandchildren? Everybody is looking upon each other with suspicion, while waiting that the criminal, a twisted soul monster, shows his work again in that twisted house?With this mystery ingredients and a gallery of strange characters, Agatha Christie builds another of her tales, filled with enchantment and mystery. Aristides Leonides is a very rich Greek man, living in England. He built his twisted house to live there with his whole family, including daughters in law, grandchildren and his sister in law, his wife?s sister. The house was called twisted because of its peculiar architecture and also due to its inhabitant?s negative features. Older granddaughter, Sophia, is the chief inspector?s son?s girlfriend and, when her grandfather is murdered with a lethal eserina?s injection, a poison that killed him almost instantaneously and witch the assassin put in Aristides?s insulin glass, the couple is committed to investigate who killed him. Naturally, the number one suspect is his young widow, fifty years younger then Aristides.
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