Agatha Christie
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Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets- a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs. Symmington, commits suicide. Her final note says "I can't go on, " but Miss Marple questions the coroner's verdict of suicide. Soon nobody is sure of anyone- as secrets stop being shameful and start becoming deadly.--From back cover.
62) Third girl
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 31
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Three single girls share a London flat. The first works as a secretary; the second is an artist; the third, who comes to Poirot for help, disappears believing she is a murderer. There are rumors of revolvers, flick-knives, and blood stains. But, without hard evidence, it will take all Poirot's tenacity to establish whether the third girl is guilty, innocent or insane.
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Hilary Craven is about to end her life when Jessop, a British agent, asks her help in finding several of the world's leading scientists who have recently vanished. Assuming the identity of a physicist's wife, she infiltrates a secret Moroccan laboratory and discovers a global conspiracy. The information she has could cost her her life, just when she has realized how much she wants to live.
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 29
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Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of the unpopular games mistress - shot through the head from point-blank range. The school is thrown into chaos when the "cat" strikes again. Unfortunately, schoolgirl Julie Upjohn knows too much. In particular, she knows that without Hercule Poirot's help she...
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Bewitching actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She implores Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Laughing, she tells Poirot if he fails she may have to bump off her husband herself. But it is no laughing matter when Lord Edgware is murdered, a well-placed knife wound at the base of his neck. It will take the precise Poirot to sort out the lies from the alibis -- and find the criminal...
66) The big four
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 4
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"Alone, each was formidable. Together, they were virtually invincible. The Big Four--a brilliant Chinese man, an American millionaire, a French woman scientist and an elusive master of disguise--a criminal conspiracy with diabolical designs. Even the indomitable Hercule Poirot is appalled as he follows a trail of murders in what could very well prove to be the his final case."--Page 4 of cover.
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 13
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Four bridge players are the suspects when Hercule Poirot discovers a slim dagger in the heart of a wealthy playboy.
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Tommy and Tuppence Beresford visit the Sunny Ridge Rest Home, where an old rambling woman insists that something is buried in the fireplace in the sitting room, and tat a painting of a secluded house is strangely familiar. When the woman disappears without a trace, the sleuths discover something wicked at Sunny Ridge.
70) Dead man's folly
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 28
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Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well-known crime writer, agrees to organize their murder hunt. At the last minute Ariadne calls her friend Hercule Poirot for his expert assistance. She senses something sinister is about to happen...
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 33
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Celia asks mystery writer Ariadne Oliver to find out how her parents really died. To do this she must track down the people who remember them, but it will take Ariadne's friend Hercule Poirot to find clues in their memories before it is too late.
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Sir Reuben Astwell was murdered ten days previously at his country house, Mon Repos, when he was violently hit on the back of the head with a club; his nephew Charles Leverson has been arrested. Sir Reuben's wife, Lady Astwell, is convinced that the true criminal is the late man's secretary, Owen Trefusis, although she doesn't have a shred of evidence to back up this claim, relying instead of her much-vaunted and self-proclaimed "intuition."
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"Six people sit down to a sumptuous meal at a table laid for seven. In front of the empty place is a sprig of rosemary-"rosemary for remembrance." A strange sentiment considering no one is likely to forget the night, exactly a year ago, that Rosemary Barton died at exactly the same table, her beautiful face unrecognizable, convulsed with pain and horror. But then Rosemary had always been memorable-she had the ability to arouse strong passions in most...
76) Endless night
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Gipsy's Acre was a beautiful upland site with views out to sea. Michael Rogers planned to build a house there, find a wonderful girl, and live happily ever after. Perhaps he should have heeded the locals' warnings about the place's dark menace.
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A mysterious stranger appears at a New Year's Eve party, becoming the enigmatic sleuthing sidekick to the snobbish Mr Satterthwaite. So far, it had been a typical New Year's Eve house party. But Mr Satterthwaite a keen observer of human nature sensed that the real drama of the evening was yet to unfold. So it proved when a mysterious stranger arrived after midnight. Who was this Mr Quin? And why did his presence have such a pronounced effect on Eleanor...
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 30
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Inspector Poirot has his work cut out for him when Sheila Webb, a young nurse, is sent to the home of a blind woman and finds a dead man behind the couch. To complicate matters, the body is surrounded by four clocks, each reading 4:13. The blind woman and Sheila both protest their innocence, leaving the cunning Poirot to try to make sense of the bizarre circumstances.
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"How did a woman holding a pistol in her right hand manage to shoot herself in the left temple? What was the link between a ghost sighting and the disappearance of top secret military plans? How did the bullet that killed Sir Gervase shatter a mirror in another part of the room? And should the beautiful Valentine Chantry flee for her life from the holiday island of Rhodes? Hercule Poirot is faced with four mystifying cases? each a miniature classic...
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In a suicide's room, seven clocks tick ominously, and the last words of a dying friend are "seven dials." The enigmatic sevens lead Jimmy Thesiger and his dashing cohort "Bundle" Brent to a Soho club. There they learn of the Seven Dials Society: seven masked conspirators who meet in a secret room to talk about stealing scientific secrets and hushing up murder.