"'Would you like to see a picture of a murderer?' So asks a stranger of Miss Jane Marple while she is vacationing on luxurious St. Honore. Before she has a chance to answer, the mystery man vanishes, only to be found dead the following day. Now Miss Marple is asking the questions: What happened to the curious photo? Why is the hotelier prone to nightmares? Why doesn't the most-talked-about guest, a reclusive millionaire, ever leave...
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" After her husband's death, Ann Prentice had devoted herself to her daughter, pushed thoughts of men from her mind. But Ann was still very attractive, and, now that her daughter Sarah had grown up, the longing she'd suppressed for years could not be denied. She wanted to be more than a mother; she wanted to be a woman.
"Ric...
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"It started when wealthy Simeon Lee called his sons and their wives together on Christmas Eve and told them he was drawing up a new will. It ended horribly a few hours later as his children sat around the dinner table-their meal interrupted by a blood-chilling scream coming from the old man's bedroom. . . For the visiting Hercule Poirot, it would be no holiday ...
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"'I really am having the most wonderful birthday,' said Miss Bunner. The party broke up with renewed thanks to the hostess. 'Enjoy yourself, Bunny? ' asked Miss Blacklock. 'Oh, I did. But I've got a terrible headache.' 'It's the cake,' said Patrick. 'I feel a bit livery myself.' 'I'll go lie down, I think,' said Miss Bunner. 'I'll take a couple of aspirin and try and have a nice sleep." Miss Bunner had a very nice sleep indeed. She...
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"The murdered man's widow was an alluring woman. Adele Fortescue's appeal was obvious, not subtle. It simply said to every man, 'Here am I. I'm a woman.' She spoke and moved and breathed sex.
"'I've been trying to get in touch with you since this morning,' Inspector Neele said. 'Your husband was taken to St. Jude's Hospital. '
"'You don't mean - he isn't - dead? ' She fumbled with her bag, pulled out a handkerchief and sobbed in a manner that w...
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"The murdered man's widow was an alluring woman. Adele Fortescue's appeal was obvious, not subtle. It simply said to every man, 'Here am I. I'm a woman.' She spoke and moved and breathed sex.
"'I've been trying to get in touch with you since this morning,' Inspector Neele said. 'Your husband was taken to St. Jude's Hospital. '
"'You don't mean - he isn't - dead? ' She fumbled with her bag, pulled out a handkerchief and sob...
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44 puzzles based entirely on the works of Agatha Christie. There are 20 American-style crosswords, 16 British-style crosswords, and 8 other puzzles. Each puzzle is based on a single novel or collection. Answers are provided at the end. A delight for mystery loving crossword fans.
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"They were out after Alistair Blunt, the magnate in the shadows who said yes or no to governments, the Prime Minister's financial prop -- and a man who at the moment was defenseless in his dentist's chair.
They missed Blunt and shot the dentist instead. Then came a bomb in Blunt's mail and a sniper in his garden.
Racing against time and the snowballing strength of a terrible conspiracy, Hercule Poirot is summoned to keep the one man aliv...
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"Perhaps the greatest mystery novel of all time, 'And Then There Were None' is Agatha Christie's acclaimed masterpiece of murder and suspense. Ten strangers are gathered together on an isolated island by a mysterious host. One by one, the guests share the darkest secrets of their wicked pasts. And one by one, they die. . . "
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"Created in 1930 as a stage play and faithfully adapted by Charles Osborne, Black Coffee brings back beloved detective Hercule Poirot to exercise his 'little grey cells' one more deliciously deductive time: An urgent call from physicist Sir Claud Amory sends famed detective Hercule Poirot rushing from London to a sprawling country estate. Sir Claud fears a member of his own household wan...
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"There was nothing remarkable about Mrs. Lancaster's departure from the Sunny Ridge establishment for elderly ladies. Except for the painting she left behind - and a single, disturbing question that echoed in Tuppence Beresford's mind. . . Tommy and Tuppence Beresford never looked for danger, but it always found them nonetheless. How could they know that a dreadful secret from the past was all too murderously alive?"; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
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"There was nothing remarkable about Mrs. Lancaster's departure from the Sunny Ridge establishment for elderly ladies. Except for the painting she left behind - and a single, disturbing question that echoed in Tuppence Beresford's mind. . . Tommy and Tuppence Beresford never looked for danger, but it always found them no...
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The dinner party was the most diabolical evening ever planned-complete with a scheming host and a menu of menace. Poirot was told beforehand that each of the invited guests was a murderer who had successfully escaped detection-and the occasion promised proof that committing the perfect crime paid. Then, at the height of the fiendish fun,...
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"For many years before World War II, Agatha Christie accompanied her archaeologist husband, Sir Max Mallowan, on his expeditions in Iraq and Syria. Here, in a most unusual kind of travel book, she has written an informal and witty description of how you lived when digging up the past in the Middle East. "
"Join the great mystery writer as she boards the Orient E...
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The rich old man was dead. Who in his sumptuous household had poisoned him? His young wife-now richer than ever and fancy free? His sons-now cut off without a shilling? His granddaughters-now very likely to come into an inheritance? Or his grandchildren's manly tutor? (Now wouldn't it be lovely-and lucrative-to comfort the beautiful young widow!; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
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A Red Badge Mystery. "The rich old man was dead. Who in his sumptuous household had poisoned him? His young wife-now richer than ever and fancy free? His sons-now cut off without a shilling? His granddaughters-now very likely to come into an inheritance? Or his grandchildren's manly tutor? (Now wouldn't it be lovely-and lucrative-to comfort the beautiful young widow!"; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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In Hercule Poirot's last case, "all the familiar Christie devices-superbly drawn oddballs and ends, distracting clues, false conclusions, private moralizing-are here."; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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