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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 15
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English
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A honeymoon cruise down the Nile spells danger for young, beautiful, and wealthy Linnet Doyle and her new husband, and it is up to the inimitable Hercule Poirot to uncover a killer.
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 3
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A murder in a small English village leads Hercule Poirot into a strange mystery involving a determined, curious spinster, the local doctor, and a wide range of suspects with possible motives and mysterious relationships.
A murder in a small English village leads Hercule Poirot into a strange mystery involving a determined, curious spinster, the local doctor, and a wide range of suspects with possible motives and mysterious relationships.
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When her aged employer dies, Katherine Gray finds herself in a maelstrom of murder and greed surrounding the famous Heart of Fire ruby.
"When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again--for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition. What is more, her precious rubies are missing. The prime suspect is Ruth's estranged...
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A foggy night... a lonely country house... and a woman with a gun in her hand quietly surveying the dead body of her husband. It looked like a straightforward case of murder. Or was it? As the ghosts of an old wrong begin to emerge from the past, the case begins to look anything but straightforward... First staged at the Duchess Theatre in London in 1958, this play ran for 604 performances and is as gripping and ingenious as you would expect from...
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During a vacation in London, Miss Marple becomes suspicious of the other guests in her too-dignified West End hotel.
When Jane Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she's looking for at Bertram's: a restored London hotel with traditional decor, impeccable service - and an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer. Yet not even Miss Marple can foresee the violent chain of events...
7) Sad cypress
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 18
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English
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A woman damned by overwhelming evidence stands accused of murdering her romantic rival, and only Poirot stands between her and the gallows.
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In the world of Hercule Poirot, a movie star’s visit to London turns into a quest to recover a fabulous diamond, an ordinary dinner conversation about rented flats and houses leads to the discovery of a murder, superstitious speculations over the death of an archaeologist in Egypt unravel a tale of ruthless greed, and an ordinary theft from a shop window in Bond Street entangles Poirot in an international jewel heist. With the amiable Hastings in...
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After boarding a train at Paddington Station, Elspeth is certain she saw a man strangling a woman in an adjoining train. No one else believes it ever really happened-- except her friend Miss Jane Marple. And the indomitable sleuth is returning to the scene of the crime to discover just exactly what Elspeth saw.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Love can propel us to our greatest heights...and darkest depths. In this new collection of Agatha Christie short stories, witness the dark side of love--crimes of passion, games of the heart, and deadly affairs"--
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When Hercule Poirot and his sidekick Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-sur-Mer to meet their client Paul Renauld they learn from Paris police that he has been found that morning stabbed in the back with a letter opener and left in a newly dug grave adjacent to a local golf course. Among the plausible suspects are Renauld’s wife Eloise, his son Jack, an unknown visitor of the previous day, Renauld’s immediate neighbor...
12) Hallowe'en party
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One of the very respectable guests at the festive Hallowe'en party must have committed murder--someone who had a nasty shock from Joyce's revelation.
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Marina Gregg, an actress whose best years are behind her, hosts a dinner party and, when one of her guests is poisoned, most suspect a homicidal hostess, until Miss Marple takes on the case.
Now with a beautiful new series look, a fatal dose of poison meant for a glamorous movie star fells her ardent admirer instead—and Miss Marple is there to unmask a murderer. One minute, silly Heather Babcock had been babbling on at her movie idol,...
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HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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"An exclusive authorized edition of the most famous and beloved stories from the Queen of Mystery. Ten people, each with something to hide and something to fear, are invited to an isolated mansion on Indian Island by a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear. On the island they are cut off from everything but each other and the inescapable shadows of their own past lives. One by one, the guests share the darkest secrets of their wicked pasts. And...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Enjoy Agatha Christie’s beloved classic, Hallowe’en Party—the inspiration for the major motion picture A Haunting in Venice, coming September 2023, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh—with a new introduction by Michael Green, screenwriter of the film. When a Hallowe’en party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murderer. At a Halloween party, Joyce—a surly thirteen-year-old—boasts that she once witnessed a murder....
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 30
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English
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As instructed, stenographer Shelia Webb let herself into the house at 19 Wilbraham Cresent. It was then that she made a grisly discovery: the body of a dead man sprawled across the living room floor. What intrigued Poirot about the case was the time factor. Although in a state of shock, Shelia clearly remembered having heard a cuckoo clock strike three o'clock. Yet, the four other clocks in the living room all showed the time as 4:13. Even more strangely,...
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HarperLuxe
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[2011]
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English
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"Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward 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, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again--p. 4 cover.
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19) Crooked house
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Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
1948-
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English
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The normally pleasant household of the late Aristide Leonides is filled with a mounting terror as it becomes obvious someone in his family has given him a fatal dose of poison.
20) Endless night
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Bantam
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[1967]
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English
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Michael Rogers and Ellie Guteman, a wealthy American oil heiress, meet at Gipsy Acres and marry, despite the warnings of a fortuneteller.
Disillusioned with his paltry chauffeur job, Michael Rogers longs for a life of wealth and privilege in Kingston Bishop. His dreams seem desperately out of his reach until a chance meeting with a gorgeous heiress results in marriage and the construction of a wonderful home. However, when the land he has built on...
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