Agatha Christie's memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan Agatha Christie was already well known as a crime writer when she accompanied her husband, Max Mallowan, to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s. She took enormous interest in all his excava[...]
BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffat as Hercule Poirot. When Poirot arrives in France, following an urgent appeal for help, he finds he is too late. His client, a South American millionaire, has been stabbed to death and his body flung into a freshly dug open grave on the golf co[...]
Elinor Carlisle and Roddy Welman are the model English couple, perfect companions set for a life of ease when they inherit Aunt Laura's considerable fortune. But a poison pen letter begins a chain of events which is to end in tragedy...Enter Hercule Poirot to investigate. John Moffatt stars as the g[...]
This is a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of a classic Agatha Christie mystery. 'There's Rosemary, that's for remembrance'. Published in 1945, "Sparkling Cyanide" is all about remembrance. It begins with six characters recalling the horrific death of Rosemary Barton, a beautiful but shallow youn[...]
Which poison was used most frequently in Agatha Christie's novels? How many of her novels featured a butler? Exactly where on the train were the suspects located in "Murder on the Orient Express?" How many actors have portrayed Hercule Poirot? Get a clue...or a lot of them, in THE COMPLETE CHRISTIE[...]
For the first time since its original one-off publication in 1973, a replica edition of Agatha Christie's rarest book, the drama of King Akhnaton's doomed attempt to subvert the old religion of ancient Egypt, based on Christie's researches in Luxor. Set in 1350 BC, the legend of Akhnaton tells of th[...]
This collection of eight stories feature characters such as Christie's most famous detective, Hercule Poirot, Mr Parker Pyne and the mysterious Harley Quin.[...]
Volume 71 in The Agatha Christie Collection.
The final Tommy & Tuppence novel, in which a poisoning many years ago may not have been accidental after all! Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property, they have inherited some worthless bric-a-brac, including a co[...]
Hercule Poirot is determined to solve an old husband and wife double murder that is still an open verdict...[...]
Still in the most formative years of his career, Hercule Poirot faces a most taxing case. Who killed Lord Cronshaw? Was Coco Courtenay's death on the same night a mere coincidence? And did she deliberately take an overdose of cocaine?[...]
Agatha Christie wrote stories for a number of magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, and most of these found their way into her books of short stories. However, the eight short stories presented here have not been published since their original appearances back in the 1920s.[...]
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.[...]