Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by John Lavery, Ambrose McEvoy and William Orpen. A practical joke at a country house — eight alarm clocks set to wake a late riser — ends with only seven on the mantelpiece and the sleeper dead. Christie wrote it in the aftermath of the year she vanished for eleven days and the press hunted her; it is a thriller rather than a puzzle, with Bundle Brent driving too fast through most of it. Sixty plates from 1894 to 1923, with portraits by John Lavery and William Strang, capture the public faces of the era Christie wrote from.