01308cam a2200241 4500 214737098 TxAuBib 20101214120000.0 970404s1948||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780553350548 0553350544 TxAuBib Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. Crooked house / by Agatha Christie. New York : Bantam Books, 1948. 215p. Agatha Christie mystery collection In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years his junior, set to inherit a sizeable fortune, and rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor comfortably ensconced in the family estate. But criminologist Charles Hayward is casting his own doubts on the innocence of the entire Leonides brood. He knows them intimately. And he's certain that in a crooked house such as Three Gables, no one's on the level... AR 5.8 9.0 8860 M, G. 19970404. Mystery fiction. Agatha Christie mystery collection.