Home » The Agony Column
Product Image

The Agony Column

Earl Derr Biggers
€16.99
Quantity:
In stock with our UK publisher. 14-28 days
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
14 days return policy Shipping & Delivery
A01=Earl Derr Biggers
Author_Earl Derr Biggers
Category=FF
Category=FFC
Category=FFD
eq_bestseller
eq_crime
eq_fiction
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain

Product details

  • ISBN 9789357319263
  • Dimensions: 183 x 121mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Jun 2025
  • Publisher: Hachette Book Publishing India Pvt Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: IN
  • Product Form: Paperback
Secure checkout Fast Shipping Easy returns
Description

An American visiting London makes the mistake of checking the personals column...the “agony column”...and finds himself mixed up in murder!

The “agony column” of the title refers to the personal columns (or “personal notices”) of English newspapers where it was the custom for young people to solicit the acquaintance of others they had seen in passing (the twentieth century version of dating apps almost!).

The hero, a shy American Geoffrey West, decides to also resort to this medium in order to get to know a fellow American girl that has taken his fancy who he has seen in the same hotel dining room, reading and enjoying the Agony Column. She does respond, via her own ad placed in the paper. But she wants him to write a letter to her each day for seven days and at the end she’ll determine if he’s someone she’d like to actually meet. Having started off as interesting in the beginning, each day the letters get more alarming and mysterious and West becomes the witness to a crime—a murder!
About Earl Derr Biggers
Earl Derr Biggers was born in Warren, Ohio, on 24 August 1884. Years later, while attending Harvard University, Biggers showed little passion for the classics, preferring instead writers such as Rudyard Kipling and Richard Harding Davis. Following his graduation from Harvard, in 1907, he worked briefly for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and at Bobbs-Merrill, a publishing company. By 1908, Biggers was hired at the Boston Evening Traveller to write a daily humor column. Soon, however, he became that paper’s drama critic. It was at this time that he met Eleanor Ladd, who would later become his wife and who would have a marked influence in his writing. He is best known as the creator of Charlie Chan.

More from this author