The Sittaford Mystery
Agatha Christie
Paperback
(Fontana, March 15, 1976)
Fontana Publishers, Eleventh Impression, April 1976. Cover painting by Tom Adams Softcover. "Seance at Sittaford...Somebody gasped. And in the pause, the table started rocking again. Ronnie spelled out the letters. M-U-R-D-E-R...Mrs. Willet gave a cry and took her hands off the table. 'I won't go on with this. It's horrible.' Mr. Duke's voice rang out, resonant and clear. He was questioning the table. 'Do you mean-that Captain Trevelyan has been murdered?' The last word had hardly left his lips when the answer came. The table rocked so violently that it nearly fell over. One rock only. 'Yes...'". Agatha Christie has been known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. She began writing at the end of the First World War, when she created Hercule Poirot, the little Belgian detective with the egg-shaped head and the passion for order-the most popular sleuth in fiction since Sherlock Holmes. Poirot, fluffy Miss Marple and her other detectives have appeared in the films, radio programs, and stage plays based on her books.