The combined forces of Scotland Yard and the French Surete can do no better than go in circles - until the final murder at Chimneys, the great country estate that yields up an amazing secret. This new "signature edition" is the first to feature Superintendent Battle and "Bundle" Brent.[...]

While playing an erratic round of golf, Bobby Jones slices a ball over the edge of a cliff. His ball is lost, but on the rocks below he finds the crumpled body of a dying man. With his final breath the man opens his eyes and says, "Why didn't the ask Evans?"[...]

An elderly widow is murdered at a clifftop seaside house...

Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon. One of the party is found murdered, and tension mounts as the survivors realize that the killer is not only among them, but is willing to strike again... and again.[...]

Six people sit down to dinner at a table laid for seven. In the seventh place is a sprig of rosemary - in memory of one who died at the same table a year previously. No one present would ever forget her face, contorted beyond recognition - or what they remembered about her astonishing life.[...]

Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her first husband and that someone had been blackmailing her. Now, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life. But when Roger is found stabbed to death it seems only Poirot can help.[...]

Pretty, young Anne came to London looking for adventure. In fact, adventure comes looking for her - and finds her immediately at Hyde Park Corner tube station. Anne is present on the platform when a thin man, reeking of mothballs, loses his balance and is electrocuted on the rails.[...]

The dentist was found shot, a pistol lying on the floor near his outflung right hand. Later, one of his patients was found dead from a lethal dose of local anaesthetic. A clear case of murder and suicide. But why would a dentist commit a crime in the middle of a busy day of appointments?[...]

Equally adept at putting together the pieces of a marriage or the fragments of a murder mystery, Mr Parker Pyne is possibly the world's most unconventional private eye - and the most charming. This is a collection of short stories featuring the redoubtable "heart specialist".[...]

It had been a typical New Year's Eve house party. But Mr Satterthwaite - a keen observer of human nature - sensed that the evening's real drama was yet to unfold. So it proved when a stranger arrived after midnight. Who was this Mr Quin? And why did he have such an effect on Eleanor Portal?[...]

A new-look 'Signature Edition', reset and rejacketed.

When a number of leading scientists disappear without trace, concern grows within the international intelligence community. Are they being kidnapped? Blackmailed? Brainwashed?[...]