Available Formats
The ABC murders: 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
ELT/ESL
Non Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Crime and mystery fiction
Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Crime, mystery and thrillers
True crime: serial killers and murderers
Childrens: picture books, activity books, early learning concepts
Crime and criminology
428.64
Paperback
128
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 7mm
130g
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
Poirot has a new challenge on his hands. The A B C murderer killed Mrs Ascher in Andover, then Betty Barnard in Bexhill, then moved on to Sir Carmichael Clarke in Churston his pattern is clear.
A B C even likes to write to Poirot and tell him where and when the next murder will be. So it should be easy to catch him, shouldnt it
Let us see, Mr Clever Poirot, just how clever you can be.
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.