An unexpected great gift for Agatha Christie fans. A detective story with the personal participation of the great writer. The author not only completely immerses the reader in the world of the era, but also creates a subtle, truthful portrait of the detective queen. During the day she is the hospital pharmacist Mrs. Mallowan, and after work she is the famous Agatha Christie. A high-profile premiere of the play based on her “Ten Little Indians” is about to take place in London in 1942, under merciless bombing. And it is precisely these days that a brutal killer of women, who is compared to Jack the Ripper himself, commits his crimes. Agatha's friend, the father of modern criminology, Bernard Spilsbury, understands that this matter cannot be done without the creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple... Max Allan Collins is an American superstar of the crime genre. Creator of Road to Perdition, which was made into a cult film starring Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law and Daniel Craig. Novelizer of the successful series “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” “Bones,” “Dark Angel” and “Criminal Minds.”