Knihy od: Christie, A.

Captain Hastings recounts 18 of Poirot's early cases from the days before he was famous...Hercule Poirot delighted in telling people that he was probably the best detective in the world. So turning back the clock to trace eighteen of the cases which helped establish his professional reputation was always going...

Poirot en Egipto : Linnet Ridgeway es una joven agraciada y millonaria que lo posee todo. Su amiga, Jacqueline de Bellefort, no menos hermosa aunque pobre, solo posee el amor de Simon Doyle, con el que piensa casarse. Este último finalmente se casa, pero el papel de novia es para...

The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings...First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond! then came the 'suicide' that was murder! the mystery of the absurdly chaep flat! a suspicious death in a locked gun-room! a million dollar bond...

A poisoning many years ago may not have been accidental after all...Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property, they have inherited some worthless bric-a-brac, including a collection of antique books. While rustling through a copy...

A collectionof short stories featuring some of Agatha Christie's best-loved detectives - Hercule Poirot, Parker Pyne, Mr Satterthwaite and Harley Quin! All great crime writers have their favourite creations. Similarly, every great sleuth has his, or her, own preferred method of deduction. Take the charming Parker Pyne, who relies upon...

A healthy young man dies in his sleep, despite the ringing of eight separate alarm clocks...Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper; so the other house guests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off, one after the other,...

A beautiful heiress is fatally poisoned in a West End restaurant! Six people sit down to dinner at a table laid for seven. In front of the empty place is a sprig of rosemary -- in solemn memory of Rosemary Barton who died at the same table exactly one year...

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...

A perplexed girl thinks she might have killed someone...Three single girls shared the same London flat. The first worked as a secretary; the second was an artist; the third who came to Poirot for help, disappeared convinced she was a murderer. Now there were rumours of revolvers, flick-knives and blood...

Hercule Poirot macht Ferien - ausgerechnet am Toten Meer. Die alte Dame Boynton war die personifizierte Bosheit. Menschenkenner Poirot schließt nicht aus, dass sie ermordet wurde. Ein dunkler Fall, aber erst ihre Vergangenheit lässt ihm die Haare zu Berge stehen.

An elderly widow is murdered at a clifftop seaside house...What is the connection between a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and the romantic life of a famous tennis player? To the casual observer, apparently nothing. But when a houseparty gathers at Gull's Point, the...

Some of Agatha Christie's earliest stories - including her very first - which show the Queen of Crime in the making! A macabre recurring dream ...revenge against a blackmailer ...jealousy, infidelity and a tortured conscience ...a stolen gemstone ...the haunting attraction of an ancient relic ...a race against time ...a...

Komu ponadobilas smert tihogo otstavnogo voennogo, nikomu ne delavshego zla i na dosuge sostavljavshego krossvordy? Kak poluchilos, chto eto ubijstvo bylo predskazano vo vremja spiriticheskogo seansa, so skuki ustroennogo gruppoj molodyh ljudej? Kto vse-taki smozhet razgadat slozhnejshuju "Zagadku Sittaforda"?

A newly reissued edition of Agatha Christie's 'Mary Westmacott' novel, a Crime of the Heart novel about a loyal wife's discovery of her husband's infidelity. 'The one book that has satisfied me completely - the book I always wanted to write.' Agatha Christie Returning from a visit to her daughter...

Agatha Christie's world-famous Miss Marple mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. It's seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing evening dress...

Völlig unvermittelt ereigneten sich in verwirrender Eile eine ganze Reihe von Dingen. Zuerst kam das Mädchen. Es riss die Tür auf, sprang in das Abteil, schreckte Mr. Rowland aus etwas so Gefährlichem wie einem kurzen Schlummer auf und rief dabei: Oh! Verstecken Sie mich - bitte, verstecken Sie mich! Wie...

Agatha Christie's disturbing 1960s mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Gipsy's Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea -- and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There,...

Ein Fremder verunglückt im dichten Nebel mit seinem Wagen und kommt auf der Suche nach Hilfe zu einem nahegelegenen Haus, in dem offfensichtlich gerade ein Mord geschehen ist. Er überrascht dort eine Frau bei ihrem toten Mann - eine Pistole in der Hand. Ist sie tatsächlich die Mörderin oder spricht...

Agatha Christie's seasonal mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical...

Agatha Christie's ingenious mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Lucy Angkatell invited Hercule Poirot to lunch. To tease the great detective, her guests stage a mock murder beside the swimming pool. Unfortunately, the victim...

Agatha Christie's famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to 'get rid of' her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead. And yet...