CROOKED HOUSE. “Collins English Readers“ + CD

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2). Each reader includes: * A CD with a reading of the adapted story * Helpful notes on characters * Cultural and historical notes relevant to the plot * A glossary of the more difficult words The Leonides are a big family and live together in a large and crooked house in a wealthy London suburb. When Aristide Leonides, an eighty-eight-year old millionaire, and head of the Leonides family is murdered by a fatal injection, the family reluctantly suspect his glamorous and young second wife. Charles Hayward, the fiance of Sophia Leonides, the late millionaire's granddaughter observes the family closely, only to make a terrible and shocking discovery!