The Hound of Death - Agatha Christie [89]
‘One of the best things Agatha Christie has ever done.’
Sunday Times
ISBN-13 978-0-00-715167-7
Murder is Easy
Agatha Christie
Luke Fitzwilliam does not believe Miss Pinkerton’s wild allegation that a multiple murderer is at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood and that her local doctor is next in line.
But within hours, Miss Pinkerton has been killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Mere coincidence? Luke is inclined to think so–until he reads in The Times of the unexpected demise of Wychwood’s Dr Humbleby…
‘One of Agatha Christie’s best mystery novels, a story fascinating in its plot, clever and lively in its characters and brilliant in its technique.’
New York Times
‘Suspense, mystery, romance and an agreeable touch of the macabre.’
Guardian
ISBN-13 978-0-00-713682-7
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
Murder on the Orient Express
POIROT
Agatha Christie
‘The murderer is with us–on the train now…’
Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, Hercule Poirot knows that the millionaire Simon Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer.
Isolated by the storm and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer amongst a dozen of the dead man’s enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again…
‘Very real, and keeps readers enthralled and guessing to the end.’
Times Literary Supplement
ISBN-13 978-0-00-711931-8
The ABC Murders
POIROT
Agatha Christie
‘Let us see, Mr Clever Poirot, just how clever you can be.’
There’s a serial killer on the loose, working his way through the alphabet, and the whole country is in a state of panic.
A is for Mrs Ascher in Andover, B is for Betty Barnard in Bexhill, C is for Sir Carmichael Clarke in Churston. With each murder, the killer is getting more confident–but leaving a trail of deliberate clues to taunt the proud Hercule Poirot might just prove to be the first, and fatal mistake…
‘An entirely original idea.’
Daily Telegraph
‘Christie is to be congratulated on the perfection of her invention.’
The Times
ISBN-13 978-0-00-711929-5
The Murder at the Vicarage
MARPLE
Agatha Christie
‘Anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe,’ declared the parson, brandishing a carving knife above a joint of roast beef, ‘would be doing the world at large a favour!’
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
4.50 From Paddington
MARPLE
Agatha Christie
For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Helplessly, she stared out of her carriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip around a woman’s throat. The body crumpled. Then the other train drew away.
But who, apart from Jane Marple, would take her story seriously? After all, there were no suspects, no other witnesses…and no corpse.
‘Never a dull moment.’
The Times
ISBN-13 978-0-00-712082-6