Crooked House - Agatha ChristieDame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie DBE ( September 15, 1890 January 12, 1976), was a British crime fiction writer. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott . Agatha Christie is the world's best-known mystery writer and all-time best selling
The EgyptianThe Egyptian (in Finnish Sinuhe egyptilainen is a historical novel by Mika Waltari. It was first published in Finnish in 1945, and in an English translation by Naomi Walford in 1949. The Egyptian is the first, and the most successful, of Waltari's great h - Mika WaltariMika Toimi Waltari ( September 19, 1908 August 26, 1979) was a Finnish author, best known for the historical novel The Egyptian''. Waltari was born in Helsinki and lost his father, a Lutheran pastor, at the age of 5. As a boy, he witnessed the Finnish Civ
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Love in a Cold ClimateLove in a Cold Climate is a novel by Nancy Mitford, first published in 1949. Like its predecessor, The Pursuit of Love Love in a Cold Climate is narrated by Fanny, and covers a similar time period but deals with a different subset of characters, revealing - Nancy MitfordNancy Mitford ( 1904- 1973), novelist and biographer Nancy Mitford was born November 28, 1904 in London, England , part of an aristocratic family. She is one of the noted Mitford sisters, was an essayist in, and editor of, Noblesse Oblige (1956), in which
Male and Female - Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Margaret Mead ( December 16 1901 November 15 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist. She was born in Philadelphia to a university professor father and a social activist mother. She graduated from Barnard College in 1923 and received h
The Man with the Golden ArmThe Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 film which tells the story of a heroin addict who got clean while in prison but tries to stay straight in the outside world. It stars Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Arnold Stang and Darren McGavin. The movi - Nelson Algren