Agatha Christie

Murder is Easy

CA$110

Illustrated by Fergus Hare

A quaint English village with a serial killer problem, it has to be Agatha Christie. In the Folio edition of Murder is Easy a simmering sense of menace pervades Fergus Hare’s bucolic illustrations and brings the suspenseful charm of Wychwood under Ashe to life.​

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Murder is Easy

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Book Details
 
Presentation Box & BindingThree-quarter bound in blocked cloth, with a printed and blocked textured paper front cover designed by the artist ​
Plain slipcase
DimensionsSized at 9 inches x 5¾ inches
FontTypeset in Bell with Kabel as display ​
Pages232 pages ​
AuthorAgatha Christie
Illustrated byFergus Hare
Illustration7 evocative full-page colour illustrations by the artist ​
Publication Date17/09/2024
Editor's Notes
 
A quaint English village. A retired police officer. A series of mysterious murders. These are all the ingredients for another iconic Agatha Christie mystery. In this standalone novel, ex-policeman Luke Fitzwilliam is tasked with apprehending a serial killer who is at large in the seemingly benign village of Wychwood under Ashe. In seven full-page illustrations, artist Fergus Hare captures bucolic countryside scenes that, while beautiful, convey a simmering sense of menace. Another gem of Golden Age of Detective Fiction, reinvigorated in this stylish and covetable edition.
Synopsis
 
Retired police officer Luke Fitzwilliam encounters an elderly woman named Miss Pinkerton on a train, who claims that a serial killer is at work in her village. When she later dies under suspicious circumstances, Fitzwilliam heads to the village of Wychwood-under-Ashe to investigate. As he delves into the seemingly tranquil community, he uncovers a series of mysterious deaths that appear to be anything but accidental. With each new clue, Fitzwilliam finds himself drawn deeper into a web of intrigue and danger, where identifying the killer becomes a race against time.​

About the Illustrator

Fergus Hare

Fergus Hare is an artist based in Brighton, East Sussex. He studied Illustration at Norwich School of Art and Design and continues to exhibit his paintings and drawings internationally. His drawings of the The Moon have been featured in Astronomy magazine, and discussed in the book Moon: Art, Science and Culture. His work has been discussed in lectures focusing on British Romanticism in contemporary art. A study of Hare’s career by Jenny Uglow was published in 2022.

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About the Illustrator

Fergus Hare

Fergus Hare is an artist based in Brighton, East Sussex. He studied Illustration at Norwich School of Art and Design and continues to exhibit his paintings and drawings internationally. His drawings of the The Moon have been featured in Astronomy magazine, and discussed in the book Moon: Art, Science and Culture. His work has been discussed in lectures focusing on British Romanticism in contemporary art. A study of Hare’s career by Jenny Uglow was published in 2022.

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About the Illustrator

Fergus Hare

Fergus Hare is an artist based in Brighton, East Sussex. He studied Illustration at Norwich School of Art and Design and continues to exhibit his paintings and drawings internationally. His drawings of the The Moon have been featured in Astronomy magazine, and discussed in the book Moon: Art, Science and Culture. His work has been discussed in lectures focusing on British Romanticism in contemporary art. A study of Hare’s career by Jenny Uglow was published in 2022.

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About the Illustrator

Fergus Hare

Fergus Hare is an artist based in Brighton, East Sussex. He studied Illustration at Norwich School of Art and Design and continues to exhibit his paintings and drawings internationally. His drawings of the The Moon have been featured in Astronomy magazine, and discussed in the book Moon: Art, Science and Culture. His work has been discussed in lectures focusing on British Romanticism in contemporary art. A study of Hare’s career by Jenny Uglow was published in 2022.

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About the Illustrator

Fergus Hare

Fergus Hare is an artist based in Brighton, East Sussex. He studied Illustration at Norwich School of Art and Design and continues to exhibit his paintings and drawings internationally. His drawings of the The Moon have been featured in Astronomy magazine, and discussed in the book Moon: Art, Science and Culture. His work has been discussed in lectures focusing on British Romanticism in contemporary art. A study of Hare’s career by Jenny Uglow was published in 2022.

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About the Illustrator

Fergus Hare

Fergus Hare is an artist based in Brighton, East Sussex. He studied Illustration at Norwich School of Art and Design and continues to exhibit his paintings and drawings internationally. His drawings of the The Moon have been featured in Astronomy magazine, and discussed in the book Moon: Art, Science and Culture. His work has been discussed in lectures focusing on British Romanticism in contemporary art. A study of Hare’s career by Jenny Uglow was published in 2022.

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About the Illustrator

Fergus Hare

Fergus Hare is an artist based in Brighton, East Sussex. He studied Illustration at Norwich School of Art and Design and continues to exhibit his paintings and drawings internationally. His drawings of the The Moon have been featured in Astronomy magazine, and discussed in the book Moon: Art, Science and Culture. His work has been discussed in lectures focusing on British Romanticism in contemporary art. A study of Hare’s career by Jenny Uglow was published in 2022.

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About the Author

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and is the author of over 80 works, including detective novels and short stories, 19 plays, and six novels published under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was published in 1920 and introduced the world to Hercule Poirot, who would become one of the most popular fictional detectives since Sherlock Holmes (as would another of Christie’s sleuths, the amateur detective Miss Marple). In 1952 her play The Mousetrap premiered in London’s West End and has run continuously ever since. Christie’s books have sold more than two billion copies in over 100 languages (said to be outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare), and have been adapted many times for film and television. She was made a dame in 1971 and died in Oxfordshire in 1976. In 2013, she was voted the greatest crime writer of all time by the Crime Writers’ Association.