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  The Ministry of Pain - A Novel

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  Essential Novelists - Agatha...

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  Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.
  
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  Agatha Christie, was a British writer who acted as a novelist, short story writer, dramaturge and poet. She stood out in the subgenre of detective novels, having popularly won the nicknames "Queen of Crime", "Duchess of Death" and "Mistress of Mystery". According to the Guinness Book, Christie is the most successful novelist in the history of world popular literature in total number of books sold, whose total numbers are only behind the works sold by William Shakespeare and the Bible.
  
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  This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

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