A murder is announced: Level 4 upper- intermediate (B2) (Collins Agatha Christie ELT Readers)
(Paperback)
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Published: 5th July 2023
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Published: 2nd March 2017
Paperback
Published: 30th April 2025
Publishing Details
A murder is announced: Level 4 upper- intermediate (B2) (Collins Agatha Christie ELT Readers)
By (Author) Agatha Christie
HarperCollins Publishers
Collins
30th April 2025
3rd September 2020
United Kingdom
Classifications
ELT/ESL
Non Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Crime and mystery fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Thrillers / suspense
Crime and mystery: police procedural
Crime and mystery: cosy mystery
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
428.6
Physical Properties
Paperback
128
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 8mm
150g
Description
Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.
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 readers have been
carefully adapted using the Collins COBUILD grading scheme to ensure that the language is at the
correct level for an intermediate learner. This book is Level 4 in the Collins ELT Readers series. Level
4 is equivalent to CEF level B2 with a word count of 20,000 26,000 words.
Each book includes:
Full reading of the adapted version available for free online
Helpful notes on characters
Cultural and historical notes relevant to the plot
A glossary of the more difficult words
An advertisement in the local newspaper announces that there is going to be a murder this evening at Little Paddocks but this is news even to the people who live at Little Paddocks! Interested villagers and friends appear that evening perhaps its a game, they think
The lights go out, there is silence, and then a gun is fired
It seems this was no game. Someone really has been murdered!
Author Bio
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.
