Why Didn't They Ask Evans

✍ Scribed by Christie, Agatha

• Book ID: 112632475
• Publisher: Harpercollins Reference
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 110 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2). Each reader includes: * A CD with a reading of the adapted story * Helpful notes on characters * Cultural and historical notes relevant to the plot * A glossary of the more difficult words Bobby Jones is playing golf ! terribly. As his ball disappears over the edge of a cliff, he hears a cry. The ball is lost, but on the rocks below he finds a dying man. With his final breath the man opens his eyes and says, 'Why didn't they ask Evans?' Bobby and his adventure-seeking companion Frankie set out to solve the mystery of the dying man's last words only to find their own lives in terrible danger!

Review

"Agatha Christie had one of the most creative minds in mystery fiction. She managed to use up almost all the plots before most of us were born."--Nevada Barr, "New York Times" bestselling author of the Anna Pigeon mysteries

About the Author

Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.