Agatha Christie

A healthy young man dies in his sleep, despite the ringing of eight separate alarm clocks…Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper; so the other house guests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off, one after the other, starting at 6.30 a.m. But when morning arrived, one clock was missing and the prank had backfired with tragic consequences.For Jimmy Thesiger in particular, the words ‘Seven Dials’ were to take on a new and chilling...

Agatha Christie’s international mystery thriller, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.Baghdad is the chosen location for a secret summit of superpowers, concerned but not convinced, about the development of an, as yet, unidentified and undescribed secret weapon.Only one man has the proof that can confirm the nature of this fantastic secret weapon – a British agent named Carmichael. Unfortunately the criminal...

Marking exactly 100 years since the publication of Agatha Christie’s first novel, this new edition includes a previously deleted chapter and a newly discovered essay, ‘Drugs and Detective Stories’, in which Agatha Christie reminisces about the inspiration for Poirot’s first case.‘Beware! Peril to the detective who says: “It is so small – it does not matter…” Everything matters.’After the Great War, life can never be the same again. Wounds need healing, and the horror of violent death banished...

A middle-aged diplomat is accosted in an airport lounge and his identity stolen…Sir Stafford Nye’s journey home from Malaya to London takes an unexpected twist in the passnger loungs at Frankfurt – a young woman confides in him that someone is trying to kill her.Yet their paths are to cross again and again – and each time the mystery woman is introduced as a different person. Equally at home in any guise in any society she draws Sir Stafford into a game of political intrigue more dangerous than...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Agatha Christie which are The Mysterious Affair at Styles and The Murder on the Links. Agatha Christie, was a British writer who acted as a novelist, short story writer, dramaturge and poet. She stood out in the subgenre of detective novels, having popularly won the nicknames...

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Poirot and Marple are Christie's most well-known detectives, with the two featured in dozens of novels and short stories. Poirot made the most appearances in Christie's work in titles that included Ackroyd, The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928) and Death in the Clouds (1935). Miss Marple has been featured in books like The Moving Finger (1942) and A Pocket Full of Rye (1953), and been played on screen by actresses like Angela Lansbury, Helen Hayes and Geraldine McEwan. Other notable...

„Mõrv Idaekspressis” on Agatha Christie 1934. aastal avaldatud kriminaalromaan, mille peategelaseks on Hercule Poirot. 1935. aasta talvel alustab Süüriast naasnud Poirot Idaekspressiga teekonda İstanbulist kodu poole. Ta ei aimagi, et rongisõidust läbi talvise Euroopa kujuneb verdtarretav mõrvamüsteerium. Belgradi mägede vahel jääb rong lumevangi ja selle seisaku ajal tapetakse suurärimees Ratchett. Maailma parim detektiiv asub tegutsema, et selgitada välja, kes on selle koletu teo taga.2017....

„Saladuslik juhtum Stylesis” on Agatha Christie esimene kriminaalromaan, mille ta kirjutas Esimese maailmasõja ajal, kuigi ilmus see alles 1920. aasta oktoobris. Sel aastal saab Christie esikromaan saja-aastaseks. Juba selles esimeses raamatus tutvustas Christie lugejatele belgia sõjapõgenikku Hercule Poirot’d, inspektor Jappi ja kapten Arthur Hastingsit. Need tegelased esinesid hiljem suures osas tema raamatutest, kuigi neile tuli ka täiendust teiste uudishimulike uurijate kujul. Raamatus asub...

Krimikirjanduse kuninganna Agatha Christie on kirjutanud rohkesti lühijutte teispoolsest viirastusteilmast. Romaanid tulid hiljem – kirjanikukarjääri alustas ta lugudega, mis pajatasid spiritismist, õudsetest ettekuulutustest, teispoolsusest tulevatest hoiatustest ja seletamatutest õnnetustest. Kõige jubedamad ja eriskummalisemad lood on nüüd koondatud kogumikku „Viimane vaimudetund”. Lühilugudes kohtume esimest korda kuulsate detektiivide Hercule Poirot’ ja miss Marple’iga. Nad on küll...

„Mõrv Idaekspressis” on Agatha Christie 1934. aastal avaldatud kriminaalromaan, mille peategelaseks on Hercule Poirot. 1935. aasta talvel alustab Süüriast naasnud Poirot Idaekspressiga teekonda İstanbulist kodu poole. Ta ei aimagi, et rongisõidust läbi talvise Euroopa kujuneb verdtarretav mõrvamüsteerium. Belgradi mägede vahel jääb rong lumevangi ja selle seisaku ajal tapetakse suurärimees Ratchett. Maailma parim detektiiv asub tegutsema, et selgitada välja, kes on selle koletu teo taga. 2017....

„Saladuslik juhtum Stylesis” on Agatha Christie esimene kriminaalromaan, mille ta kirjutas Esimese maailmasõja ajal, kuigi ilmus see alles 1920. aasta oktoobris. Sel aastal saab Christie esikromaan saja-aastaseks. Juba selles esimeses raamatus tutvustas Christie lugejatele belgia sõjapõgenikku Hercule Poirot’d, inspektor Jappi ja kapten Arthur Hastingsit. Need tegelased esinesid hiljem suures osas tema raamatutest, kuigi neile tuli ka täiendust teiste uudishimulike uurijate kujul. Raamatus asub...

Agatha Christie 1937. aastal ilmunud romaanis pöördub Hercule Poirot poole rikas noor abielunaine Linnet Doyle. Poirot kavatseb parajasti asuda lõbusõidule Niilusel ning sama plaan on ka Linnetil ja tema vastsel abikaasal. Linnet on abiellunud oma sõbranna peigmehega ning muidugi pole nüüd enam sõprusest juttugi. Pettunud ja kibestunud Jacqueline de Bellefort jälitab noorpaari kõikjal ja püüab nende elu igati ebamugavaks teha. Selgub, et temagi on aurikule pileti ostnud, ning kuigi Poirot ei...