The definitive companion to the POIROT novels, films and TV appearances.
The second of three omnibuses which bring together all 12 Miss Marple novels. This volume includes "A Caribbean Mystery", "A Pocket Full of Rye", "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side" and "They do it with Mirrors".[...]
A full-length Hercule Poirot novel, adapted from Agatha Christie's stage play by Charles Osborne
All 51 Hercule Poirot short stories presented in chonological order in a single volume - plus a bonus story not seen for more than 70 years.[...]
A comprehensive and authorised biographical companion to the works of Agatha Christie covering books, films, TV and plays - revised and updated edition.[...]
First published in 1941, this crime story finds Tommy and Tuppence Beresford in a prim seaside boarding house, frequented by genteel old ladies and retired army officers. But one of them is a spy, leader of the "fifth column" of highly placed traitors.[...]
A crime novel in which two desperate youngsters, short of money and restless for excitement, place an advertisement saying they are willing to do anything and to travel anywhere, but their first assignment for a sinister client plunges them into more danger than they could have imagined.[...]
Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the owners of an old English house. Along with the property they have inherited a collection of antique books. When looking through "The Black Arrow", Tuppence comes upon a series of apparently random underlinings which spell out a disturbing message.[...]
An old woman in a nursing home speaks of a child buried behind the fireplace...
Tommy and Tuppence Beresford were restless for adventure, so when they were asked to take over Blunt's International Detective Agency, they leapt at the chance. After their triumphant recovery of a pink pearl, intriguing cases kept on coming their way.[...]
It was clear to Amy that something sinister was going on at the Hassaneih dig; something associated with the presence of "Lovely Louise", wife of archaeologist, Dr Leidner. But with Louise suffering from terrifying hallucinations, Poirot might just be too late.[...]
It was not unusual to find the bronzed body of Arlena Stuart stretched out on a beach, face down. Only, on this occasion, she had been strangled. Ever since Arlena's arrival at the resort, Hercule Poirot had detected sexual tension in the seaside air.[...]
There had been some strange goings on at Styles St Mary. Evelyn had stormed out of the house and something indefinable had gone from the atmosphere. Her presence had spelled security; now the air seemed rife with impending evil. With impeccable timing Poirot makes his dramatic entrance.[...]
A crime novel featuring Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, who travels to France following an urgent plea for help from a client, but he arrives late and the client is found dead. Before Poirot can begin to assess the clues, a second corpse is found, murdered in the same way as his client.[...]
There's a serial killer on the loose. His macabre calling card is to leave the ABC Railway guide beside each victim's body. But if A is for Alice Asher, bludgeoned to death in Andover; and B is for Betty Bernard, strangled with her belt on the beach at Bexhill; then who will Victim C be?[...]
Nick Buckley was an unusual name for a girl, but then she led an unusal life. Firstly her brakes fail on a treacherous Cornish road, then a falling bolder misses her by inches, later on an oil painting falls and almost crushes her head. Upon discovering a bullet hole in her sun hat, Hercule Poirot d[...]
Hercule Poirot sits in the dining car amusing his fellow passengers, but the night brings snow - and death. And, trapped in the snowbound train beyond the help of the law, Poirot must use his powers of observation alone to solve a bizarre murder.[...]
The tranquility of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger - "I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger."[...]
From his seat, Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. To his right sat a pretty young woman; ahead, a Countess with a cocaine habit; and across the gangway, a detective writer. What Poirot didn't realize was that in the seat behind was the lifeless body of a woman.[...]
Mr Shaitana was famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless he was a man of whom everybody was a little afraid. So, when he boasted to Poirot that he considered murder an art form, the detective had some reservations about excepting a party invitation to view Shaitana's private collection.[...]
On the cliffs of Petra sits the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A puncture mark on her wrist is the only sign of the injection that killed her. With only 24 hours in which to solve the mystery, Poirot recalls a remark he had overheard back in Jerusalem: "You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?"[...]
When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard's funeral, suddenly takes on a chilling significance.[...]
At a Halloween party, Joyce, a hostile 13-year-old, boasts that she once witnessed a murder. Within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub.[...]
It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered when the tyrannical Simeon Lee is found dead, his throat slashed. But when Hercule Poirot offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man.[...]
The abduction of a Prime Minister ... the disappearance of a banker ... a phone call from a dying man ... and, finally, the mystery of the missing will. What links these fascinating cases? Only the deductive powers of Hercule Poirot. This title is part of a new series of Hercule Poirot editions.[...]