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“Trust the train, Mademoiselle, for it is le bon Dieu who drives it. […] And trust Hercule Poirot. He knows.” Unhappy with her marriage, Ruth Kettering, a pampered American heiress, is on her way to meet her lover in the French Riviera, but she will never reach her destination. When the...

“If one man does not make a move, the other must, and by permitting the adversary to make the attack one learns something about him.” In The Big Four, Hercule Poirot investigates a string of murders that appear to be disconnected on the surface, but Agatha Christie’s Belgian detective sees...

“What one does not tell to Papa Poirot he finds out.” In Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Hercule Poirot comes out of retirement to solve one of the most vexing cases of his career. The quiet village of King’s Abbot is still reeling from the death of the widow Ferrars from...

“With method and logic one can accomplish anything!” ―Agatha Christie, Poirot Investigates An American starlet with a mysterious diamond, a suicide that may be more than it appears, an impossibly cheap flat, a locked room murder, a million–dollar robbery, an ancient pharaoh’s curse, a...

This book is more a spy thriller than just a mystery as the exceptional Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, gets greatly involved in international intrigue and espionage. He attempts to defeat a ruthless cartel trying to dominate the world … in essence super criminals forming a cruel coalition...

The term “sour grapes” is often used in reference to an instance in which someone adopts an attitude to something because they can’t equal it themselves. That was certainly the case when a 20th century critic wrote a derogatory article in the New York Magazine, stating: “Who cares Who...

Intrigue, espionage, mystery, and murder collide at a British country home in this captivating thriller from Agatha Christie. Eager to leave his job as a tour guide in Africa, international vagabond Anthony Cade meets an old acquaintance, Jimmy McGrath, who offers him a small sum to dispatch an...

Published in 1920, this was the first book in a fantastic literary career for Agatha Christie. She went on to become the top-selling fiction author of all time with sales reaching an incredible one billion in English and another billion in a multitude of foreign language translations. Altogether...

When the recently orphaned Anne Beddingfield moves to London to live with her late father’s solicitor and his wife, she is ready for adventure to find her, and find her it most certainly does. While waiting for the tube after a failed job interview, Anne witnesses a man fall off the...

Not one, but two dead bodies are discovered on a French golf course, leaving Hercule Poirot to unravel a grisly conundrum. Hercule Poirot receives an urgent cry for help from a client summoning him to France. But he is too late, and arrives to find his client facedown in a shallow grave on a...

An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Hercule Poirot's interest. But then he saw the list of stolen and vandalized items: a stethoscope, some old flannel trousers, a box of chocolates, a slashed rucksack, and a diamond ring found in a bowl...

Zum 150.Geburtstag von W.B. Yeats am 13. Juni Nobelpreisträger William Butler Yeats schrieb berührende Liebeslyrik, er beschwor die keltische Dämmerung und ein mythisches Byzanz. Seine stilistische Vielfalt – vom Volkslied bis zum formstreng komponierten Liebesgedicht – spiegelt sich in...

There were not less than seven people at the fashionable estate in Essex, England, who might have abided Emily Inglethorp if she were more dead than alive. There were not less than seven motives and no fewer than seven apparently fool-proof alibis when the wealthy lady of Styles lay dead in her...

Miss Marple está entediada em suas férias à beira-mar. O sol até ajuda com seu reumatismo, mas nada divertido acontece. Até que finalmente seu interesse é despertado pela história de um assassinato contada pelo Major Palgrave, mas, justo quando ele ia lhe mostrar uma foto do homicida, o...

George Christie er den længst siddende præsident i Hells Angels’ historie. Han var rockerverdenens førende fredsmægler og nummer to i Hells Angels’ internationale hierarki, kun overgået af klubgrundlæggeren og veteranen over dem alle, Sonny Barger. Men i 2010 blev gammelt venskab til...

Den illa omtyckta översten och kyrkvärden Protheroe hittas skjuten till döds i miss Marples hemby Saint Mary Mead. Det är kyrkoherden Clement som hittar kroppen. Men bara några timmar tidigare hade kyrkoherden uttryckt sin egen ovilja gentemot översten. Miss Marple inleder en egen...

MORD UTAN VARE SIG LIK ELLER VITTNEN Inför julen reser mrs McGillicuddy för att hälsa på väninnan miss Marple. Men det som börjar som en avkopplande tågresa får en otrevlig vändning när mrs McGillicuddy bevittnar hur en kvinna stryps ihjäl i ett förbipasserande tåg. Det finns inga...

AGATHA CHRISTIES DEBUTROMAN Vem förgiftade den förmögna Emily Inglethorpe och hur lyckades mördaren fly från hennes låsta sovrum? I den lilla byn Styles St Mary finns det gott om misstänkta – arvtagerskans nye make, hennes två styvsöner, den labila hushållerskan och en vacker...

Den första lilla grisen gick till torget … Sexton år efter att Caroline Crale dömts för mordet på sin make, uppsöker hennes dotter Carla Lemarchant detektiven Hercule Poirot för att rentvå moderns namn. Poirots misstankar faller snart på fem personer och utifrån deras vittnesmål...

KAN POIROT LÖSA FALLET INNAN JUL? Den 19 december 1931 kallas Hercule Poirot och inspektör Edward Catchpool till Norfolk sjukhus för att utreda mordet på en patient. Men Catchpools mamma, den oemotståndliga Cynthia, råkar bo i trakterna och insisterar på att den berömde detektiven ska...