Agatha Christie

Crooked House

£55

Illustrated By Sally Dunne

The newest addition to the Folio crime library is Crooked House, the book that Agatha Christie herself believed was one of her best. This edition features evocative illustrations by Sally Dunne.

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Crooked House

£55
Book Details
 
Presentation Box & BindingThree-quarter bound in blocked cloth, with a printed and blocked Modigliani paper front board
Plain slipcase
Dimensions9 inches x 5¾ inches
FontSet in Bell with Kabel as display
Pages216 pages
AuthorAgatha Christie
Illustrated BySally Dunne
IllustrationFrontispiece plus 6 colour illustrations
Publication Date12/05/2021
Editor's Notes
 
A mysterious poisoning. A house full of eccentric characters. And one amateur sleuth racing to fit all of the crooked pieces together. Crooked House is the epitome of an Agatha Christie novel – in fact, Christie herself described it as one of her own ‘special favourites’. Acknowledged the world over as the undisputed queen of crime, Christie composed the plot of Crooked House with all her usual brilliance, teasing the reader with multiple red herrings and canny psychological insights before leading them to a resolution that still has the power to shock, even today. This edition features seven evocative colour illustrations by artist Sally Dunne that perfectly capture the 1940s period and country-house setting, as well as a binding design that, like Christie’s writing, is both beautiful and sinister.

ABout the Illustrator

Sally Dunne

Sally Dunne graduated from the Cambridge School of Art, Angela Ruskin University with an MA in Children’s Book Illustration and began her professional career by winning the Student of the Year V&A Illustration Awards 2020. Folio Art Director Sheri Gee was a member of the judging panel and was so impressed with Sally’s work that she commissioned her to illustrate Crooked House (2021). Sally lives in Ireland and draws inspiration from her surroundings. She enjoys working with a combination of pastel and coloured pencil as well as painting with watercolour.

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ABout the Illustrator

Sally Dunne

Sally Dunne graduated from the Cambridge School of Art, Angela Ruskin University with an MA in Children’s Book Illustration and began her professional career by winning the Student of the Year V&A Illustration Awards 2020. Folio Art Director Sheri Gee was a member of the judging panel and was so impressed with Sally’s work that she commissioned her to illustrate Crooked House (2021). Sally lives in Ireland and draws inspiration from her surroundings. She enjoys working with a combination of pastel and coloured pencil as well as painting with watercolour.

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ABout the Illustrator

Sally Dunne

Sally Dunne graduated from the Cambridge School of Art, Angela Ruskin University with an MA in Children’s Book Illustration and began her professional career by winning the Student of the Year V&A Illustration Awards 2020. Folio Art Director Sheri Gee was a member of the judging panel and was so impressed with Sally’s work that she commissioned her to illustrate Crooked House (2021). Sally lives in Ireland and draws inspiration from her surroundings. She enjoys working with a combination of pastel and coloured pencil as well as painting with watercolour.

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ABout the Illustrator

Sally Dunne

Sally Dunne graduated from the Cambridge School of Art, Angela Ruskin University with an MA in Children’s Book Illustration and began her professional career by winning the Student of the Year V&A Illustration Awards 2020. Folio Art Director Sheri Gee was a member of the judging panel and was so impressed with Sally’s work that she commissioned her to illustrate Crooked House (2021). Sally lives in Ireland and draws inspiration from her surroundings. She enjoys working with a combination of pastel and coloured pencil as well as painting with watercolour.

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ABout the Illustrator

Sally Dunne

Sally Dunne graduated from the Cambridge School of Art, Angela Ruskin University with an MA in Children’s Book Illustration and began her professional career by winning the Student of the Year V&A Illustration Awards 2020. Folio Art Director Sheri Gee was a member of the judging panel and was so impressed with Sally’s work that she commissioned her to illustrate Crooked House (2021). Sally lives in Ireland and draws inspiration from her surroundings. She enjoys working with a combination of pastel and coloured pencil as well as painting with watercolour.

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ABout the Illustrator

Sally Dunne

Sally Dunne graduated from the Cambridge School of Art, Angela Ruskin University with an MA in Children’s Book Illustration and began her professional career by winning the Student of the Year V&A Illustration Awards 2020. Folio Art Director Sheri Gee was a member of the judging panel and was so impressed with Sally’s work that she commissioned her to illustrate Crooked House (2021). Sally lives in Ireland and draws inspiration from her surroundings. She enjoys working with a combination of pastel and coloured pencil as well as painting with watercolour.

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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.