Knihy od: Christie, A.

An exotic holiday for Miss Marple is ruined when a retired major is killed...As Jane Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Eventually, her interest was aroused by an old soldier's...

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

An old-fashioned London Hotel is not quite as reputable as it makes out! When Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she's looking for at Bertram's Hotel: traditional decor, impeccable service and an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer....

A ruthless international cartel seeks world domination...Framed in the doorway of Poirot's bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man's gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell. Who was he? Was he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all,...

An old woman in a nursing home speaks of a child buried behind the fireplace...When Tommy and Tuppence visited an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they thought nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada was a very difficult old lady. But when Mrs Lockett mentioned...

A flamboyant party host is murdered in full view of a roomful of bridge players...Mr Shaitana was famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he was a man of whom everybody was a little afraid. So, when he boasted to Poirot that he considered murder an art form, the detective...

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...

A wealthy Greek businessman is found dead at his London home! The Leonides were one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That was until the head of the household, Aristide, was murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection. Suspicion naturally falls on the old man's young widow, fifty...

Während ihres Urlaubs in dem Küstenstädtchen St. Loo lernen Hercule Poirot und Captain Hastings die junge Nick Buckley kennen, Erbin eines großen alten Hauses mit Seeblick. Auf das Leben des jungen Mädchen werden immer wieder Anschläge ausgeführt, denen sie nur knapp entkommt. Ihre Kusine wird bei einem solchen Mordversuch getötet....

A charity murder game at a Devon house turns into the real thing... Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fte, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well known crime writer, agrees to organise their...

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...

A brand new bumper omnibus gathering together over 50 classic Agatha Christie stories featuring Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Harley Quin, Parker Pyne and Hercule Poirot, plus her rare Christmas Stories not available in any other volume. This new compendium of over 50 stories is the first time all the stories...

Hercule Poirot is determined to solve an old husband and wife double murder that is still an open verdict… Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. Here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies – a husband...

Hercule Poirot trägt keine Walther PPK, er beherrscht weder Kung Fu noch Judo, er ist nicht einmal athletisch gebaut und draufgängerisch. Dennoch zittern alle vor ihm: die Ganoven der Unterwelt, betrügerische Verwandte, gerissene Entführer, Wirtschaftsbetrüger, Drogendealer, Heiratsschwindler und Spione. Denn seine sicherste Waffe ist sein messerscharfer Verstand, den er in...

There's more than petty theft going on in a London youth hostel...An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Hercule Poirot's interest. But when he saw the list of stolen and vandalized items -- including a stethoscope, some old flannel trousers,...

»Das Schicksal hat dir eine goldene Kugel zugeworfen,« erklärt der steinreiche Mr Leadbetter in einer dichterischen Anwandlung. »Und du hast sie nicht aufgefangen.« Sein Neffe George kann dem nicht ganz zustimmen, doch bevor er dem Onkel dasGegenteil beweisen kann, muss er eine wunderschöne reiche Erbin befreien, in ein verlassenes Haus...

Der Meisterdetektiv wird nach Frankreich gerufen. Der Multimillionär Renauld wünscht dringend seine Hilfe. Renauld aber kann ihm nichts mehr mitteilen, denn noch vor der Ankunft Poirots findet man ihn - mit dem Gesicht nach unten - in einem offenen Grab

Trop belle, trop lég re, trop riche Rosemary ! Quel désespoir secret a conduit au suicide cette femme environnée d

A brand new omnibus of 55 short stories, presented for the first time in chronological order. Described by her friend Dolly Bantry as ´ the typical old maid of fiction´, Miss Marple has lived almost her entire life in the sleepy hamlet of St Mary Mead. Yet, by observing village...

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

The daughter of an American millionaire dies on a train en route for Nice...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...

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...

Chto delat´ zhiteliam gorodka Littl-Peddoks, kogda v utrennikh gazetakh oni obnaruzhivaiut ob´iavlenie sleduiuschego soderzhaniia: Ob´iavleno ubiistvo, kotoroe proizoidet v piatnitsu, dvadtsat´ deviatogo oktiabria, v vosemnadtsat´ chasov tridtsat´ minut v Littl-Peddokse. Tol´ko segodnia! Druz´ia, speshite priniat´ uchastie! Tol´ko miss Marpl s pomosch´iu svoikh neveroiatnykh logicheskikh sposobnostei smozhet rasputat´ klubok sobytii.. ..

Evidence that clears the name of a boy sentenced for killing his adopted mother arrives too late to save his life - so who did kill her? Dr. Arthur Calgary takes a ferry across the Rubicon River to Sunny Point, the home of the Argyle family. A year before, the...

A priest's death leads to sinister goings-on in an old country pub...To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning? Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman's head?...

Linnet Ridgeway is rich, beautiful and clever. She appears to have everything. But Linnet also has enemies. When she is shot dead on a passenger boat in Egypt, it is fortunate that Hercule Poirot is also on the trip. But even for the great Belgian detective, this is not a...