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Книги Christie Agatha
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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 — shot through the heart from point blank range. The school is thrown into chaos when the 'cat' strikes again. Unfortunately, schoolgirl Julia Upjohn knows too much. In particular, she knows that without Hercule Poirot's help, she will be the next victim! |
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From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman. |
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An elderly spinster has been poisoned in her country home! Everyone blamed Emily's accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her. On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously he didn't receive the letter until June 28th! by which time Emily was already dead! |
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«Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. Here, many years earlier, there had been a fatal accident. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two bodies — a husband and wife — shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves back into the past and discovers that «old sins leave long shadows».» |
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«The beautiful bronzed body of Arlena Stuart lay face down on the beach. But strangely, there was no sun and Arlena was not sun-bathing... she had been strangled. Ever since Arlena's arrival the air had been thick with sexual tension. Each of the guests had a motive to kill her, including Arlena's new husband, but Hercule Poirot suspects that this apparent «crime of passion» conceals something much more evil.» |
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One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been babbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a massive seizure, poisoned by a deadly cocktail. It seems likely that the cocktail was intended for the beautiful actress. But whilst the police fumble to find clues, Miss Marple begins to ask her own questions, because as she knows — even the most peaceful village can hide dark secrets. |
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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 'counting house' when he suffered an agonising and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain traces of cereals. Yet, it was the incident in the parlour which confirmed Jane Marple's suspicion that here she was looking at a case of crime by rhyme... |
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«One Tuesday evening a group gathers at Miss Marple's house and the conversation turns to unsolved crimes — the case of the disappearing bloodstains, the thief who committed his crime twice, and the poisioned man's death-bed message which read «heap of fish», among others.» |
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A facsimile first edition hardback of the Miss Marple books, published to mark the 75th anniversary of her first appearance and to celebrate her new-found success on television. When The Murder at the Vicarage was published in October 1930, little did the literary world realise that Agatha Christie, already famous for her early Poirot titles, was introducing a character who would become the best-loved female sleuth of all time. The 14 Marple books would appear at intervals over the next 49 years, with Miss Marple's Final Cases published in 1979, three years after Agatha's death. To mark the 75th anniversary of Miss Marple's first appearance, and to celebrate her renewed fortunes as a primetime television star, this collection of facsimile first editions will be the perfect way to enjoy these books in their original form — 12 novels and two short story collections. Reproducing the original typesetting and formats from the first editions from the Christie family's own archive copies, these books sport the original covers which have been painstakingly restored from the best available copies, reflecting five decades of iconic cover design. |
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A perfect introduction to Agatha Christie — four of the best Hercule Poirot stories, chosen for their readability and sense of adventure. A man is found shot through the head in a locked room. A wealthy banker vanishes while posting a letter. A thief disappears with a haul of rubies and emeralds. And, in the golden sands of Egypt, the men who discovered an ancient tomb are dying one by one... Hercule Poirot, the fussy Belgian detective with the egg-shaped head and immaculate moustache, solved some of the world's most puzzling crimes. This book contains four of the very best stories, selected by John Curran, author of Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks, and Sophie Hannah, who wrote the brand new Hercule Poirot novel, The Monogram Murders. Includes the stories The Double Clue, The Market Basing Mystery, The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim and The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb. |
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When Clarissa stumbles upon a corpse in her drawing room, she decides that she must dispose of it before her husband arrives with an important foreign dignitary and persuades her three house guests to assist her in the endeavor, but her efforts are threatened by the arrival of a police officer who has come in response to an anonymous tip about a murder. |
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The life of Agatha Christie as told by herself. It covers her childhood, her first marriage, the birth of her daughter Rosalind, her second marriage to archaeologist Max Mallowan, and an account of her legendary career as a novelist and playwright. |
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«Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. «Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?» she muses. She has the chance to find out when she discovers a body — in her drawing-room! Desperate to dispose of it, she persuades her guests to help her, all the time knowing that one of them must also be the killer. Now, supposing a police inspector were to arrive...? Adapted as a novel by Charles Osborne.» |
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First published in 1941, this crime story finds Tommy and Tuppence Beresford in a prim seaside boarding house, frequented by genteel old ladies and retired army officers. But one of them is a spy, leader of the fifth column of highly placed traitors. |
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Theres a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way through the alphabet. And as a macabre calling card he leaves beside each victims corpe the ABC Railway Guide open at the name of the town where the murder has taken place. Having begun with Andover, Bexhill and then Chuton, there seems little chance of the murderer being caught — until he makes the crucial and vain mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot to frustrate his plans. |
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Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs. Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her. With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark hed overheard back in Jerusalem: You see, dont you, that shes got to be killed? Mrs. Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman hed ever met. |
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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 the great Belgian detective couldnt help feeling that he was being taken for a ride. After all, how could Jane have stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? And what could be her motive now that the aristocrat had finally granted her a divorce? |
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