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Author
Publisher
William Morrow Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"In the Agatha Christie classic Peril at End House , a young woman who has recently survived a series of very close calls appears to be the target of a dedicated killer--and it's up to Hercule Poirot to save her life. On holiday on the Cornish Riviera, Hercule Poirot is alarmed to hear pretty Nick Buckley describe her recent "accidental brushes with death." First, on a treacherous Cornish hillside, the brakes on her car failed. Then, on a coastal...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In the title work in this collection of novellas, Poirot and Inspector Japp collaborate on the investigation of a suspicious suicide. The supernatural is said to play in the disappearance of top secret military plans in The Incredible Theft -- an incredible claim, indeed, as Poirot will prove. The bullet that kills Gervase Chevenix-Gore shatters a mirror in Dead Man's Mirror -- just the clue Poirot needs to solve the crime. And, while basking on white...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Robbery and brutal murder aboard a luxury transport ensnares the ever-attentive Hercule Poirot in The Mystery of the Blue Train, from Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again -- for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition. What is more, her precious rubies are missing. The prime...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture from Twentieth Century Fox Following the success of Murder on the Orient Express directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, Twentieth Century Fox will next adapt this classic Hercule Poirot mystery for the big screen. Beloved detective Hercule Poirot embarks on a journey to Egypt in one of Agatha Christie's most famous mysteries, Death on the Nile. The tranquility of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Hercule Poirot is called on to investigate the murder of a brother and sister, in this classic Agatha Christie mystery now available in an updated edition with a foreword Sophie Hannah. "He was murdered, wasn't he?" When Cora Lansquenet is savagely murdered, the extraordinary remark she had made the previous day at her brother Richard's funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richard's will, Cora was clearly heard to say,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In Mrs. McGinty's Dead , one of Agatha Christie's most ingenious mysteries, the intrepid Hercule Poirot must look into the case of a brutally murdered landlady. Mrs. McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion falls immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes reveal traces of the victim's blood and hair. Yet something is amiss: Bentley just doesn't seem like a murderer. Could the answer lie in an article clipped...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Suspicious events at a Middle Eastern archaeological excavation site intrigue the great Hercule Poirot as he investigates Murder in Mesopotamia, a classic murder mystery from Agatha Christie. Amy Leatheram has never felt the lure of the mysterious East, but when she travels to an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert to nurse the wife of a celebrated archaeologist, events prove stranger than she could ever have imagined. Her patient's bizarre visions...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Poirot Investigates a host of murders most foul -- as well as other dastardly crimes -- in this intriguing collection of short stories from the one-and-only Agatha Christie. First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond . . then came the "suicide" that was murder . . the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat . .a suspicious death in a locked gun room . . a million dollar bond robbery . . the curse of a pharaoh's tomb . . a jewel robbery...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Waiting for his car to be fixed, Mr. Satterthwaite sits in a tea shop called the Harlequin café, thinking of his friend Harley Quin, whom he hasn't seen in many years. Then, in a burst of sunshine, the very same Mr. Quin walks through the door, along with his diligent dog, Hermes. Satterthwaite is telling him the very long history of the family he is off to visit, when their conversation is interrupted by the abrupt entrance of a member of that very...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Reading a perfectly plotted Agatha Christie is like crunching into a perfect apple: that pure, crisp, absolute satisfaction.Tana French , New York Times Bestselling Author From the Queen of Suspense, an all-new collection of her spookiest and most sinister stories, including an Agatha Christie story never before published in the USA, The Wife of Kenite ! For lovers of the supernatural and the macabre comes this collection of ghostly and chilling stories...
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A wealthy woman is poisoned at an English country manor and the world of detective fiction is changed forever. With The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie launched herself, and her beloved Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, into popular culture history. When Captain Arthur Hastings runs into an old friend, John Cavendish, and is invited to the family estate at Styles, he has a "premonition of approaching evil." Outside, the Great War is still...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The debut of Agatha Christie and her remarkable Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot Invalided home from the Western Front, Arthur Hastings arrives at Styles Court anticipating a relaxing sojourn in the English countryside. It turns out to be anything but. Late one night, Hastings is summoned to the locked bedroom door of Emily Inglethorp, mistress of the manor. A terrible commotion is happening inside, and by the time her family forces the door open...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The world's most famous detective returns in this ingenious, stylish, and altogether delicious mystery from the author of the instant bestseller The Monogram Murders (I was thrilled" -- Gillian Flynn). "What I intend to say to you will come as a shock ... " With these words, Lady Athelinda Playford -- one of the world's most beloved children's authors -- springs a surprise on the lawyer entrusted with her will. As guests arrive for a party at her...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Lady Athelinda Playford announces her decision to cut her children out of her will and leave her fortune to an invalid with just weeks to live, a declaration Hercule Poirot senses was made to provoke a murder."--
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Agatha Christie’s first Hercule Poirot detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, is now available in a fine exclusive collector’s edition featuring beautiful cover art from artist Laci Fowler and distinctive interior treatments, making it ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike. Each collectible volume will be the perfect addition to any well-appointed library. The Harper Muse Classics: Painted Edition of The Mysterious Affair...
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