
A delectable collector’s edition of Agatha Christie’s Sparkling Cyanide joins the Folio Society crime library. With exquisite illustrations by Michael Philip Dunbabin.
Agatha Christie
Illustrated by David Lupton
Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None rejoins our Christie collection, with 15 thrilling illustrations from David Lupton. This truly is the ultimate edition of the world’s best-selling mystery.
Editor’s Note
- Sophia Schoepfer, Editor
This is the Queen of Crime’s greatest murder mystery and one of the best-selling books of all time for good reason. It is a tense and masterfully plotted mystery with an ingenious denouement that Agatha Christie herself described as ‘a better piece of craftsmanship than anything else I have written’.
Our edition features 15 spinetingling illustrations by artist David Lupton, whose expressionist drawings perfectly evoke the threatening atmosphere and mutual suspicion of And Then There Were None.
Three-quarter bound in blocked cloth, with a printed and blocked textured paper front cover
Typeset in Bell with Kabel as display
248 pages with an illustrated title page spread and 15 integrated black & white drawings
Plain slipcase
Sized at 9˝ x 5¾˝
Printed in Germany
‘The whole thing is utterly impossible and utterly fascinating. It is the most baffling mystery that Agatha Christie has ever written.’
- New York Times
Ten strangers arrive on a desolate island, each invited under false pretences. Cut off from the world, they are confronted with their darkest secrets. One by one, they begin to die. Trapped in a relentless storm, trust crumbles and fear takes hold as the survivors realise a killer is among them.
With no escape and nowhere to hide, the question looms: who will be the one left standing? Agatha Christie weaves an ingenious web of mystery, suspicion and suspense in this classic whodunnit.
About Agatha Christie
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.
About David Lupton
David Lupton is a London-based illustrator, hand-drawing and painting his work with traditional media. He often finds expression in the melancholy and the macabre. He has created work for many commercial briefs, including editorial illustration, children's picture books, music video design and animation, and record cover artwork. Lupton has illustrated a number of books for Folio, including The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (2015) and And Then There Were None (2017, Folio 2025). He worked closely with Ursula K. Le Guin to illustrate the Folio edition A Wizard of Earthsea (2015), and continued to realise the author's vision after Le Guin passed away, illustrating The Left Hand of Darkness (2018), The Dispossessed (Folio 2019), The Tombs of Atuan (2022), The Farthest Shore (2022), Tehanu (2023), Tales from Earthsea (2023) and The Other Wind (2024).
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