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Destination Unknown

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Destination Unknown

A young woman with nothing to live for is persuaded to embark on a suicide mission to find a missing scientist…When a number of leading scientists disappear without trace, concern grows within the international intelligence community. Are they being kidnapped? Blackmailed? Brainwashed?One woman appears to have the key to the mystery. Unfortunately, Olive Betteron now lies in a hospital bed, dying from injuries sustained in a Moroccan plane crash.Meanwhile, in a Casablanca hotel room, Hilary...

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Ask a Policeman

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Ask a Policeman

This new edition, which is reproduced from a first printing of the book, is introduced by the author Martin Edwards, archivist of the Detection Club, and includes a never-before-published Preface by Agatha Christie, ‘Detective Writers in England’, in which she discusses her fellow writers in the Detection Club.Lord Comstock is a barbarous newspaper tycoon with enemies in high places. His murder in the study of his country houseposes a dilemma for the Home Secretary. In the hours before his...

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Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short...

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Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories

All 51 Hercule Poirot short stories presented in chonological order in a single volume – plus a bonus story not seen for more than 70 years.‘My name is Hercule Poirot and I am probably the greatest detective in the world.’The dapper, moustache-twirling little Belgian with the egg-shaped head, curious mannerisms and inordinate respect for his own ‘little grey cells’ has solved some of the most puzzling crimes of the century. Appearing in Agatha Christie’s very first novel in 1920 and her very...

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Absent in the Spring

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Absent in the Spring

A striking novel of truth and soul-searching.Returning from a visit to her daughter in Iraq, Joan Scudamore finds herself unexpectedly alone and stranded in an isolated rest house by flooding of the railway tracks.Looking back over the years, Joan painfully re-examines her attitudes, relationships and actions and becomes increasingly uneasy about the person who is revealed to her…Famous for her ingenious crime books and plays, Agatha Christie also wrote about crimes of the heart, six bittersweet...

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A Pocket Full of Rye

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A Pocket Full of Rye

A handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman…Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his ‘counting house’ when he suffered an agonising and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain traces of cereals.Yet, it was the incident in the parlour which confirmed Jane Marple’s suspicion that here she was looking at a case of crime by rhyme…

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Third Girl

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Third Girl

A perplexed girl thinks she might have killed someone…Three single girls shared the same London flat. The first worked as a secretary; the second was an artist; the third who came to Poirot for help, disappeared convinced she was a murderer.Now there were rumours of revolvers, flick-knives and blood stains. But, without hard evidence, it would take all Poirot’s tenacity to establish whether the third girl was guilty innocent or insane…

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Mrs McGinty’s Dead

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Mrs McGinty’s Dead

An old widow is brutally killed in the parlour of her cottage…Mrs McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion fell immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes revealed traces of the victim’s blood and hair. Yet something was amiss: Bentley just didn’t look like a murderer.Poirot believed he could save the man from the gallows – what he didn’t realise was that his own life was now in great danger…

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Death Comes as the End

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Death Comes as the End

A novel of anger, jealousy, betrayal and murder in 2000 BCIt is Egypt, 2000 BC, where death gives meaning to life. At the foot of a cliff lies the broken, twisted body of Nofret, concubine to a Ka-priest. Young, beautiful and venomous, most agree that she deserved to die like a snake.Yet Renisenb, the priest’s daughter, believes that the woman’s death was not fate, but murder. Increasingly, she becomes convinced that the source of evil lurks within her own father’s household.As the wife of an...

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Giant’s Bread

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Giant’s Bread

A spellbinding novel of romantic obsession.Vernon Deyre is a sensitive and brilliant musician, even a genius. But there is a high price to be paid for his talent, especially by his family and the two women in his life. His sheltered childhood in the home he loves has not prepared Vernon for the harsh reality of his adult years, and in order to write the great masterpiece of his life, he has to make a crucial decision with no time left to count the cost…Famous for her ingenious crime books and...

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Murder Is Easy

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Murder Is Easy

Agatha Christie’s ingenious murder mystery thriller, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.Luke Fitzwilliam could not believe Miss Pinkerton’s wild allegation that a multiple murderer was at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood – or her speculation that the local doctor was next in line.But within hours, Miss Pinkerton had been killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Mere coincidence? Luke was inclined to think...

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Agatha Christie’s Complete Secret N...

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Agatha Christie’s Complete Secret Notebooks

Agatha Christie’s Complete Secret Notebooks brings together for the first time Secret Notebooks and Murder in the Making, two volumes that explore the fascinating contents of her 73 notebooks. This includes illustrations, deleted extracts, unused ideas, two unpublished Poirot stories and a lost Miss Marple.When Agatha Christie died in 1976, aged 85, she had become the world's most popular author. With sales of more than two billion copies worldwide in more than 100 countries, she had achieved...

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Sleeping Murder

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Sleeping Murder

The owner of a seaside villa is plagued by strange feelings about its past…Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs…In fear, Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between them, they were to solve a ‘perfect’ crime committed many years before.

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A Death on the Nile

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A Death on the Nile

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.On the River Nile, Parker Pyne is enjoying his holiday when a wealthy woman reveals suspicions that her husband is trying to poison her. With a plot for murder afoot, Mr Pyne is called into action. But will he be too late?This short story shares the same title as one of Agatha Christie’s most famous books, but there the similarity ends…

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Знахідка у бібліотеці

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Знахідка у бібліотеці

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Endless Night

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Endless Night

Agatha Christie’s disturbing 1960s mystery thriller, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.Gipsy’s Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea – and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy.There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after.Yet, as he left the village, a shadow of menace hung over the land. For this was the place where...

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Zagadka Błękitnego Ekspresu

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Zagadka Błękitnego Ekspresu

Amerykański milioner Rufus Van Aldin ma tylko jedną słabość: swoją córkę Ruth. Ona natomiast ma aż dwie słabości: klejnoty i niebezpiecznych mężczyzn. Ojcowski prezent, rubin Serce Płomienia, nie przyniesie jej szczęścia… Błękitnym Ekspresem podróżuje również Katarzyna Grey, która ostatnia widziała ofiarę przy życiu. Od jej zeznań Herkules Poirot zaczyna swoją pracę. Kto zamordował córkę milionera? Gdzie jest Serce Płomienia? Komu odda serce Katarzyna Grey? Na szczęście – jak sam mówi w...

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I nie było już nikogo

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I nie było już nikogo

Dziesięć osób, każda podejrzana o morderstwo, zostaje zaproszonych przez tajemniczego gospodarza do domu na wyspie. Gdy ginie druga osoba, goście szybko zdają sobie sprawę, że to, co początkowo uważali za nieszczęśliwy wypadek, jest robotą zabójcy. Postanawiają odkryć jego tożsamość, ale okazuje się, że nikt nie ma alibi. Odizolowani od społeczeństwa, umierają jeden po drugim w sposób opisany w dziecięcej rymowance, która wywieszona jest w ich pokojach.

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Morderstwo w zaułku

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Morderstwo w zaułku

Herkules Poirot jest bohaterem wszystkich czterech opowiadań tomu. Morderstwo w zaułku – mało wiarygodne samobójstwo, a może jednak morderstwo? Niewiarygodna kradzież – kto chciał skompromitować lorda, kradnąc dokumenty państwowe? Lustro nieboszczyka – kto zabił ekscentrycznego arystokratę? Trójkąt na Rodos – czemu służą wieloramienne trójkąty wielomałżeńskie? Wnioski są dwa. Pierwszy: nie ma faktów oczywistych. Drugi: każdy fakt może zyskać nową interpretację. A drwina z „małych...

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The Secret Adversary - The Original...

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The Secret Adversary - The Original Classic Edition

Just after World War One, Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley are desperately short of money. With jobs thin on the ground they decide to form a partnership, hiring themselves out as ?young adventurers, willing to do anything, go anywhere?. In their first dangerous assignment, they must use all their ingenuity to save not only their lives but also the life of the mysterious ?Jane?. <p> Christie was inspired to write The Secret Adversary after overhearing a conversation in a cafe. Two...

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Cat Among the Pigeons

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Cat Among the Pigeons

Unpleasant things are going on in an exclusive school for girls – things like murder…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 heart from point blank range.The school is thrown into chaos when the ‘cat’ strikes again. Unfortunately, schoolgirl Julia Upjohn knows too much. In particular, she knows...

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Three Act Tragedy

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Three Act Tragedy

At an apparently respectable dinner party, a vicar is the first to die…Thirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actor’s house. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, went into convulsions and died.But when his martini glass was sent for chemical analysis, there was no trace of poison – just as Poirot had predicted. Even more troubling for the great detective, there was absolutely no motive…

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Death in the Clouds

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Death in the Clouds

A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passenger plane…From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp.What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat...

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N or M?

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N or M?

Tommy & Tuppence are hired to track down wartime spies at a seaside resort…It is World War II, and while the RAF struggles to keep the Luftwaffe at bay, Britain faces an even more sinister threat from ‘the enemy within’ – Nazis posing as ordinary citizens.With pressure mounting, the Intelligence service appoints two unlikely spies, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Their mission: to seek out a man and a woman from among the colourful guests at Sans Souci, a seaside hotel. But this assignment is no...

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Evil Under the Sun

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Evil Under the Sun

Agatha Christie’s exotic seaside mystery thriller, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.It was not unusual to find the beautiful bronzed body of the sun-loving Arlena Stuart stretched out on a beach, face down. Only, on this occasion, there was no sun… she had been strangled.Ever since Arlena’s arrival at the resort, Hercule Poirot had detected sexual tension in the seaside air. But could this apparent ‘crime of...

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