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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 Man Who Was Thursday

Gilbert Chesterton, Гилберт Честертон и др.

The Man Who Was Thursday

First published in 1908, G. K. Chesterton’s “The Man Who Was Thursday” has been described as a metaphysical thriller. It is the story of Gabriel Syme, who is recruited by Scotland Yard as part of an anti-anarchist task force. When he meets Lucian Gregory, a poet and member of a secret society of anarchists, he gains access to the underground movement. The group is lead by a central council of seven men, each named for a day of the week. Gabriel convinces the local chapter to elect him to the...

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Gilbert Chesterton, Гилберт Честертон и др.

The Man Who Was Thursday

G.K. Chesterton

The Man Who Was Thursday

It is very difficult to classify THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY. It is possible to say that it is a gripping adventure story of murderous criminals and brilliant policemen; but it was to be expected that the author of the Father Brown stories should tell a detective story like no-one else. On this level, therefore, THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY succeeds superbly; if nothing else, it is a magnificent tour-de-force of suspense-writing. However, the reader will soon discover that it is much more...

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G.K. Chesterton

The Market Basing Mystery: A Hercul...

Агата Кристи

The Market Basing Mystery: A Hercule Poirot Short Story

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Holidaying in the countryside and enjoying a quiet breakfast Hastings, Inspector Japp and Poirot are disturbed by a local police officer who needs their help to solve a case. A man has been found shot through the head in a locked room with suicide well and truly ruled out how did he die?

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The Market Basing Mystery

Агата Кристи

The Market Basing Mystery

At Japp’s suggestion, Poirot and Hastings join him for the weekend in the small countryside town of Market Basing. While enjoying Sunday breakfast, the three are interrupted by the local constable, who requests Japp's help. Walter Protheroe, the reclusive owner of a local large mansion, has been found dead in his dilapidated house, supposedly by suicide. Or is it?

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The Missing Million

Edgar Wallace

The Missing Million

Detective-Inspector James Sepping investigates the disappearance of man-about-town Rex Walton. Walton disappeared with a million pounds on the even of his wedding.

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Edgar Wallace

The Missing Million

Edgar Wallace

The Missing Million

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Edgar Wallace

The Murder on the Links

Agatha Christie

The Murder on the Links

On a French golf course, a millionaire is found stabbed in the back…An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course.But why is the dead man wearing his son’s overcoat? And who was the impassioned love-letter in the pocket for? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identically murdered corpse…

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The Murder on the Links

Agatha Christie

The Murder on the Links

"The Murder on the Links" takes place in northern France, giving Poirot a hostile competitor from the Paris Sûreté. Poirot's long memory for past or similar crimes proves useful in resolving the crimes. Reviews when it was published compared Mrs Christie favourably to Arthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Remarking on Poirot, still a new character, one reviewer said he was «a pleasant contrast to most of his lurid competitors; and one even suspects a touch of satire in him.»

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The Murder on the Links

Agatha Christie

The Murder on the Links

The Murder on the Links is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead & Co in the same year and in the UK by The Bodley Head in May 1923. It features Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings. The story takes place in northern France, giving Poirot a hostile competitor from the Paris Sûreté. Poirot's long memory for past or similar crimes proves useful in resolving the crimes. The book is notable for a subplot in which Hastings falls in love, a...

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The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge

Agatha Christie

The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge

A weekend shooting party ends with the host shot in his study. With Poirot ill, Hastings must investigate on his behalf. Search your favorite ebook store for «Wildside Press Agatha Christie» to see our complete series of Hercule Poirot novel and short story reprints, which include: NOVELS The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Special Edition—includes the novel The Secret Adversary) The Murder on the Links (Bonus Edition—includes «The...

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The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge: A He...

Agatha Christie

The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge: A Hercule Poirot Short Story

A wealthy man is found dead in his nephew’s hunting lodge. Suspicion falls on a bearded stranger who was with the man immediately before a shot was heard, but he has completely vanished. Hastings is left to investigate solo as Poirot is ill with influenza, but his expertise is never far away

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Fred M. White, Fred M. White

The Mystery of the Clasped Hands

Guy Boothby

The Mystery of the Clasped Hands

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Guy Boothby

The Mystery of the Clasped Hands

Guy Boothby

The Mystery of the Clasped Hands

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Guy Boothby

The Mystery of the Ravenspurs

Fred M. White, Fred M. White

The Mystery of the Ravenspurs

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The Mystery of the Ravenspurs

Fred M. White

The Mystery of the Ravenspurs

The Ravenspur family is rich and respectable. Unfortunately, a series of deaths is picking them off one by one, victims of mysterious crimes in their ancestral home. Who is behind these deaths? The last of the line must find out before he meets his own end. A classic mystery.

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Fred M. White

The Mystery of the Spanish Chest: A...

Агата Кристи

The Mystery of the Spanish Chest: A Hercule Poirot Short Story

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Major Hastings and Hercule Poirot are not interested in the case of the Spanish Chest, so obviously has it been reported in the papers that it seems an entirely closed book. But, when Hastings persuades Poirot to attend a rather fabulous party given by Lady Chatterton there is someone sequestered upstairs waiting for the pair’s help. She’s so sure that there has been some great mistake and is desperate...

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The Mystery of the Spanish Chest: A...

Агата Кристи

The Mystery of the Spanish Chest: A Hercule Poirot Short Story

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.A newspaper headline about the arrest of a murderer raises Poirot’s suspicions that there has been a miscarriage of justice. A visit to the scene of the crime to meet the witnesses should allow him to uncover the truth…

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The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Гастон Леру

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Gaston Leroux (1868-1927) was an influential mystery and detective author, contributing a great deal to the golden age of mystery fiction. First published serially in France from 1907-1908, «The Mystery of the Yellow Room,» is widely considered the greatest of the «locked room mysteries» of the twentieth century. Joseph Rouletabille, a journalist and novelist, is thrust into a complicated murder investigation, a murder that occurred in a locked room where it was seemingly impossible for any...

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The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Гастон Леру

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

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The Phantom of the Opera

Гастон Леру

The Phantom of the Opera

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The Phantom of the Opera

Гастон Леру

The Phantom of the Opera

The lights of the Paris Opera House dim and a lovely singer holds the audience spellbound with her enchanting voice. Two men are rivals for her love: one of them the beloved friend of her childhood — and the other the terrifying «opera ghost» who haunts the theater and wields a strange power over the performer.This thrilling novel and its many adaptations have beguiled the imaginations of countless audiences throughout the twentieth century. A gripping tale of longing passion, fear,...

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