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The Man in the Brown Suit (Musaicum...

Agatha Christie

The Man in the Brown Suit (Musaicum Vintage Mysteries)

Nadina, a dancer in Paris, receives a visit from Count Sergius Paulovitch. Both are in the service of «the Colonel», an international agent provocateur and criminal. «The Colonel» is retiring, leaving his agents high and dry. Nadina has a plan to blackmail the Colonel. Anne Beddingfeld is an orphan after the sudden death of her archaeologist father. Longing for adventure, she jumps at the chance live in London. Returning from an unsuccessful job interview, Anne is at Hyde Park Corner tube...

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The Man in the Brown Suit

Agatha Christie

The Man in the Brown Suit

Newly orphaned archaeologist’s daughter Anne Beddingfeld is off to see the world. After witnessing a gruesome and fatal “accident”, following a suspected murderer, and finding a mysterious clue on a scrap of paper, Anne sets sail for South Africa. Sinister happenings ensue, but her newly acquired paternalistic protector, Sir Eustace, will surely see that she comes to no permanent harm. But which of the two masterful men sharing the voyage, Colonel Race and the elusive Man in the Brown Suit, can...

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Agatha Christie

The Man in the Brown Suit

Agatha Christie

The Man in the Brown Suit

Anne Beddingfeld is always ready for an adventure. So when she witnesses a man wearing a brown suit die at a tube station in London, she searches for clues and finds a mysterious piece of paper nearby. The message it contains leads her on a confounding chase full of secret aliases and codes as she seeks to solve the case and catch the murderer. Featuring an appearance from Secret Service agent Colonel Race, this story from renowned mystery writer Agatha Christie is a true classic that blends...

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Agatha Christie

The Man in the Brown Suit

Agatha Christie

The Man in the Brown Suit

First published in 1924, “The Man in the Brown Suit” is a thrilling adventure and murder mystery by Agatha Christie. The protagonist is Anne Beddingfield, the orphaned daughter of a famous archaeologist, who goes to live with her father’s solicitor and his wife in London. Anne is searching for an adventure and something exciting to occupy her time when she is witness to the sudden death of a man at Hyde Park Corner tube station when the man falls onto the electrified train track and is killed...

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Agatha Christie

The Man in the Brown Suit

Agatha Christie

The Man in the Brown Suit

The Man in the Brown Suit is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by The Bodley Head on 22 August 1924 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. Anne Beddingfeld is on her own and ready for adventures when one comes her way. She sees a man die in a tube station and picks up a piece of paper dropped nearby. The message on the paper leads her to South Africa as she fits more pieces of the puzzle together about the death she...

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The Labours of Hercules

Agatha Christie

The Labours of Hercules

In this set of short stories, Poirot sets himself a challenge before he retires – to solve 12 cases which correspond with the labours of his classical Greek namesake…In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet – reasoned the detective – like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters.So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot made up his mind to accept just twelve more cases: his self-imposed ‘Labours’....

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The Kidnapping of Johnnie Waverly

Agatha Christie

The Kidnapping of Johnnie Waverly

Poirot is called in to investigate the kidnapping of three-year-old Johnnie Waverlyfrom his home in Surrey. Evidence points to someone in the household, but the most likely suspect has an alibi.

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The Greatest Murder Mysteries - Aga...

Agatha Christie

The Greatest Murder Mysteries - Agatha Christie Edition

This eBook edition of «The Greatest Murder Mysteries – Agatha Christie Edition» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.Table of Contents: The Mysterious Affair at Styles The Secret Adversary The Murder on the Links The Affair at the Victory Ball The Curious Disappearance of the Opalsen Pearls (The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan) The Adventure of the King of Clubs The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim The Mystery of the...

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The Double Clue

Agatha Christie

The Double Clue

Poirot investigates a jewel robbery. The theft occurred during a tea party, when a private safe was rifled and objects taken.

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The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim

Agatha Christie

The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim

Poirot and Hastings are entertaining Japp when the conversation turns to the recent disappearance of a banker, Mr. Davenheim, from his large country house, the Cedar. No trace of Davenheim can be found.

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The Curious Disappearance of the Op...

Agatha Christie

The Curious Disappearance of the Opalsen Pearls

While on holiday in Brighton with Hastings, Poirot cannot resist the case of a missing necklace. Also published as «The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan.»

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The Cornish Mystery

Agatha Christie

The Cornish Mystery

Poirot receives a visit from a Mrs Pengelley, a middle-aged woman who fears that she is being poisoned by her husband. She has no proof , only that she only suffers when her husband is at home, not when he is away at the weekends – and a bottle of weedkiller, supposedly unused, is half-empty…

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The Collected Works of Agatha Chris...

Agatha Christie

The Collected Works of Agatha Christie

Musaicum Books presents to you this unique and meticulously edited mystery collection: The Mysterious Affair at Styles The Secret Adversary The Murder on the Links The Affair at the Victory Ball The Curious Disappearance of the Opalsen Pearls (The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan) The Adventure of King of Clubs The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim The Mystery of the Plymouth Express The Adventure of «The Western Star» The Tragedy at Marsden Manor The Kidnapped Prime Minister The...

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The Clue of the Chocolate Box

Agatha Christie

The Clue of the Chocolate Box

Hastings mentions his belief that Poirot had never known failure in his professional career. Poirot said that was not true and relates the one occasion when he failed to solve a crime, years earlier when he was a police detective in Brussels.

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The Clocks

Agatha Christie

The Clocks

A typist uncovers a man’s body from behind the sofa…As instructed, stenographer Sheila Webb let herself into the house at 19 Wilbraham Crescent. It was then that she made a grisly discovery: the body of a dead man sprawled across the living room floor.What intrigued Poirot about the case was the time factor. Although in a state of shock, Sheila clearly remembered having heard a cuckoo clock strike three o’clock. Yet, the four other clocks in the living room all showed the time as 4.13. Even more...

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The Case of the Veiled Lady

Agatha Christie

The Case of the Veiled Lady

A heavily veiled lady arrives and identifies herself as Lady Millicent Castle Vaughan, whose engagement to the Duke of Southshire was recently announced. At age sixteen she wrote an indiscreet letter to a soldier…a letter now in the hands of a blackmailer. Can Poirot retrieve it and save her reputation?

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The Case of the Missing Will

Agatha Christie

The Case of the Missing Will

Miss Violet Marsh was orphaned at fourteen years of age, when she went to live with her Uncle Andrew in Devon. Now Uncle Devon has died, leaving a will with a strange clause. Can Poirot unravel the mystery?

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The Affair at the Victory Ball

Agatha Christie

The Affair at the Victory Ball

Chief Inspector Japp asks Poirot to assist Scotland Yard in the strange events which took place at a recent costumed Victory Ball.

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The Adventures of the King of Clubs

Agatha Christie

The Adventures of the King of Clubs

The Oglander family was playing bridge in the drawing room of their house in Streatham when the French windows burst open and a woman staggered in, blood on her dress. She managed to say, «Murder!» and then collapsed. Hercule Poirot is called in to solve the baffling case.

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The Adventure of the Italian Noblem...

Agatha Christie

The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman

Poirot and Hastings investigate the death of an Italian count found alone and dead in a locked apartment – his head crushed in by a small marble statue.

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The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb

Agatha Christie

The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb

Lady Willard, widow of the famous Egyptologist Sir John Willard, consults Poirot. Her late husband excavated the tomb of Pharaoh Men-her-Ra together with an American financier, Mr Bleibner. Both men died within a fortnight of each other…

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The Adventure of the Clapham Cook

Agatha Christie

The Adventure of the Clapham Cook

Hastings brings 3 newspaper stories to Poirot's attention, trying to interest him in a new case: a bank clerk who disappeared with fifty thousand pounds of securities, a suicidal man, and a missing typist. Instead, he agrees to investigate Mrs Todd's case of a missing cook.

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The Adventure of the Christmas Pudd...

Agatha Christie

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (Unabridged)

In this short story, Hercule Poirot is asked to attend a Christmas celebration in order to apprehend a jewel-thief who has taken advantage of an unwary Eastern prince. Full of English holiday tradition and plenty of intrigue, this holiday tale first appeared in the December 12, 1923 issue of The Sketch magazine.

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The Adventure of the Christmas Pudd...

Agatha Christie

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

Agatha Christie’s seasonal Poirot and Marple short story collection.First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding… then the discovery of a corpse in a chest… next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder… the strange case of the dead man who altered his eating habits… and the puzzle of the victim who dreamt his own suicide.What links these five baffling cases? The little grey cells of Monsieur Hercule Poirot!

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