Passenger to Frankfurt - Agatha Christie [95]
It was a careless remark for a man of the cloth. And one which was to come back and haunt the clergyman just a few hours later–when the Colonel is found shot dead in the clergyman’s study. But as Miss Marple soon discovers, the whole village seems to have had a motive to kill Colonel Protheroe.
The first Miss Marple mystery, one which tests all her powers of observation and deduction.
‘When she really hits her stride, as she does here, Agatha Christie is hard to surpass.’
Saturday Review of Literature
ISBN-13 978-0-00-712085-7
The Mysterious Affair At Styles
POIROT’S FIRST CASE
Agatha Christie
Peril to the detective who says: “It is so small–it does not matter…” Everything matters.’
When Emily Inglethorpe is found murdered, Captain Hastings calls for help from an old friend: a certain Belgian detective who has grown bored of retirement.
A shattered coffee cup, a splash of candle grease, a bed of begonias–only Poirot could unravel an ingenious crime from these few intriguing clues.
‘Almost too ingenious.’
Times Literary Supplement
ISBN-13 978-0-00-711927-1
The Secret Adversary
TOMMY & TUPPENCE
Agatha Christie
Tommy and Tuppence, two young people flat broke and out of work after the War, are restless for excitement. They embark on a daring business scheme–Young Adventurers Ltd–‘willing to do anything, go anywhere’.
But their first assignment, for the sinister Mr Whittington, draws them into a sinister, political conspiracy. Under the eye of the elusive, ruthless Mr Brown, they find themselves plunged into more danger than they ever imagined.
Agatha Christie’s first Tommy and Tuppence novel is a jazz-age thriller of international intrigue, murder and suspense.
‘Refreshingly original.’
Times Literary Supplement
ISBN-13 978-0-00-711146-6
Endless Night
Agatha Christie
Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night
When penniless Michael Rogers discovered the beautiful house at Gypsy’s Acre and then meets the heiress Ellie, it seems that all his dreams have come true at once. But he ignores an old woman warning of an ancient curse, and evil begins to stir in paradise.
As Michael soon learns: Gypsy’s Acre is the place where fatal ‘accidents’ happen…
‘One of the best things Agatha Christie has ever done.’
Sunday Times
ISBN-13 978-0-00-715167-7
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
THE WORLD’S BEST-SELLING MYSTERY, OVER 100 MILLION COPIES SOLD
‘Ten…’
Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious ‘U.N. Owen’.
‘Nine…’
At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by the end of the night one of the guests is dead.
‘Eight…’
Stranded by a violent storm, and haunted by an ancient nursery rhyme counting down one by one…as one by one…they begin to die.
‘Seven…’
Which amongst them is the killer and will any of them survive?
‘One of the very best, most genuinely bewildering Christies.’
Observer
‘Agatha Christie’s masterpiece.’
Spectator
ISBN-13 978-0-00-713683-4
About the Author
Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in 100 foreign countries. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.
Agatha Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was written towards the end of the First World War, in which she served as a VAD. In it she created Hercule Poirot, the little Belgian detective who was destined to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. It was eventually published by The Bodley Head in 1920.
In 1926, after averaging a book a year, Agatha Christie wrote her masterpiece. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was