Agatha Christie
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A collection of short stories featuring the 'heart specialist', Parker Pyne. Mrs Packington felt alone, helpless and utterly forlorn. But her life changed when she stumbled upon an advertisement in The Times which read: 'ARE YOU HAPPY? IF NOT, CONSULT MR PARKER PYNE'. Equally adept at putting together the pieces of a marriage or the fragments of a murder mystery, Mr Parker Pyne was possibly the world's most unconventional private eye and certainly...
82) Murder is easy
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A Superintendent Battle novel volume 4
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Luke Fitzwilliam could not believe Miss Pinkerton's wild allegation that a multiple murderer was at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood. But when she is killed, followed by Dr Humbleby, he begins to change his mind.
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There's a chill in the air and the days are growing shorter. It's the perfect time to curl up in front of a crackling fire with these wintry whodunits from the legendary Agatha Christie. But beware of deadly snowdrifts and dangerous gifts, poisoned meals and mysterious guests. This chilling compendium of short stories--some featuring beloved detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple--is an essential omnibus for Christie fans and the perfect holiday...
84) The pale horse
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Detective-Inspector Lejeune and police surgeon Jim Corrigan enter the world of witchcraft and the occult when a puzzling list, naming people already dead or marked for death, is found on Father Gorman's dead body.
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Anne Beddingfield wants a little adventure in her life, now that her father has died and left her alone in the world. But she gets more than she bargained for when, at the tube station, she sees a man fall onto the track and die. A man dressed in brown, claiming to be a doctor, pronounces him dead, then rushes from the scene, leaving a scrap of paper behind. The police call it an accident, but Anne, armed with the scrap of paper, decides to investigate...
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Everyone blamed Emily Arundell's accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her. On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously, he didn't receive the letter until June 28th by which time Emily was already dead.
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Bobby Jones is retrieving a wayward golf ball at the base of a cliff when he discovers an unconscious man whose back is broken. The man regains consciousness long enough to utter the words "Why didn't they ask Evans?" before he dies. A few days after the inquest, Bobby is drugged when someone slips what should have been a deadly dose of morphine into his beer. Bobby decides to investigate the matter further and his friend Lady Frances Derwent agrees...
90) Towards zero
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A dashing tennis player named Neville Strange, his current stylish wife, his not-so-stylish ex-wife, plus a distant relative and a few others find their way to a house party. When a murder occurs, Superintendent Battle is nearby and called on to help solve the case. But is the information on hand enough to go by, or go the events leading to the murder begin years in the past?
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Detective Hercule Poirot takes a holiday at an exclusive hotel on a tiny island to retreat from the stresses of his profession. The tranquil atmosphere is disrupted by the appearance of the charming Arlena Stuart who brings an indefinable erotic tension to the premise. When she is found strangled in a secluded cove, there are few, especially among the women, who feel either surprise or regret. With bewildering clues, Poirot is certain the solution...
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Holding a seance is an innocent diversion for Mrs. Willets guests; after all, the supernatural is a fad -- but when the spirit spells M-U-R-D-E-R, the spooked party turns the lights on fast. Within hours Captain Trevalyn is found dead, brutally killed by a blow to the head. Intrepid Emily Trefusis descends on the village to defend the police's #1 suspect -- her fiancé Jim. With the help of newshound Charles Enderby and retired Inspector Narracott,...
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Agatha Christie created magnificent works of suspense for the theater, and eight of her riveting stage dramas are collected in The Mousetrap and Other Plays—including the title piece, the longest running play in history, still a smash hit in London's West End after 60 years!
On an isolated island, ten people have been brought together to be killed off. An evil old woman has a rendezvous with death in the desert heat
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On holiday, Miss Marple senses something sinister at Bertram's Hotel. She's right: the police believe some of the guests are involved with criminals. Abduction, train robbery, and the murder of the hotel's doorman confuse the authorities, but Miss Marple deduces the truth.
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In ancient Egypt, a long widowed landowner brings the beautiful young woman with whom he has fallen in love to his home, and she quickly upsets the household by manipulating a series of confrontations that so enrage her lover that he threatens to disinherit his children in her favor.
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Sir Stafford Nye's flight home from Malaya takes an unprecedented twist when a young woman confides in him that someone is trying to kill her. In a moment of weakness, he agrees to lend her his passport. Unwittingly, the diplomat has put his own life on the line. When he meets the mystery woman again, she is a different person, and he finds himself drawn into a battle against an invisible--and altogether more dangerous--enemy.
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A bit of adventure and quick cash is all that good-natured drifter Anthony Cade is looking for when he accepts a messenger job from an old friend. It sounds so simple: deliver the provocative memoirs of a recently deceased European count to a London publisher. But the parcel holds more than scandalous royal secrets. It contains a stash of letters that suggest blackmail -- and leads to the murder of a stranger who's been shadowing Anthony's every move....
99) Crooked house
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"The Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That is until the head of the household, Aristide, is murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection. Suspicion naturally falls on the old man's young widow, fifty years his junior. But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward, fiancé of the late millionaire's granddaughter."--The publisher.
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There's a body in a trunk; a dead girl's reflection is caught in a mirror; and one corpse is back from the grave, while another is envisioned in the recurring nightmare of a terrified eccentric. What's behind such ghastly misdeeds? Try money, revenge, passion, and pleasure. With multiple motives, multiple victims, and multiple suspects, it's going to take a multitude of talent to solve these clever crimes.In this inviting collection, Agatha Christie...