Dix Breves Rencontres. Nouvelles

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 had some reservations about accepting a party invitation to view Shaitana’s private collection. Indeed, what began as an absorbing evening of bridge was to turn into a more dangerous game altogether…

Cartes sur table

Une fois n'est pas coutume, nous suivons Hercule Poirot en France d'où M. Renauld - un homme qui semble avoir des moyens - a lancé un SOS impérieux au détective. Une limousine attendra Poirot et son ami Hastings à Calais... Sur place, pas de limousine : M. Renauld a été assassiné dans la nuit. On l'a trouvé lardé de coups de couteau, au fond d'une tombe creusée sur un terrain de golf... L'enquête ne sera pas facile : M. Renauld était discret sur son passé en Amérique du Sud ; et les deux femmes qui, aux dires des domestiques, le rencontraient souvent le soir sont de bien mystérieuses créatures... Poirot, comme à son habitude, fera son profit du moindre indice...

Le crime du golf

Le Cheval pâle (1961) : Dans un bistrot de Chelsea, deux jeunes filles se crêpent le chignon. Témoin de la scène, l’écrivain Mark Easterbrook apprend peu après le décès de l’une d’elles, Thomasina Tuckerton. Son nom figure également sur une liste découverte dans la chaussure d’un prêtre, assassiné après avoir recueilli la confession d’une vieille dame. Toutes les pistes mènent Easterbrook à l’auberge du Cheval Pâle…Le Cheval à bascule (1973) : En rangeant des livres d'enfants dans le grenier de leur nouvelle maison, Tommy et Tuppence Beresford tombent sur une édition de La Flèche noire, de Stevenson. Des lettres soulignées forment une phrase mystérieuse : « Mary Jordan n'est pas morte de mort naturelle, c'est l'un de nous qui l'a tuée. »Pas de temps mort ni de balade au trot avec la « duchesse de la mort ». Même un cheval de bois peut cacher un crime. Il est plus prudent d’enfourcher sa monture et de partir au galop…

Au galop !: Le Cheval pâle / Le Cheval à bascule

Qu'avait vu Marina Gregg ? Qu'avait-elle vu un instant avant la mort de Mrs Babcock ? Elle regardait fixement le mur, pres de l'escalier, et son visage s'etait soudain crispe de terreur. Puis elle s'etait ressaisie pour retourner, souriante, a ses invites. Mrs Babcock avait pris un cocktail... et tout s'etait enchaine tres vite. On avait d'abord cru a un etourdissement, a un malaise cardiaque... Quelques minutes plus tard, elle etait morte... empoisonnee... Mais pourquoi ? Pourquoi Heather Babcock, une si brave femme toujours prete a rendre service ? Evidemment, elle aimait fourrer son nez partout, mais de la a... Qu'avait donc vu Marina Gregg ?"

Le miroir se brisa

This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 18 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including uncollected stories by Ngaio Marsh and John Dickson Carr. 

 The Golden Age of detective fiction had begun inauspiciously with the publication of E. C. Bentley's schismatic Trent's Last Case in 1913, but it hit its stride in 1920 when both Agatha Christie and Freeman Wills Crofts - latterly crowned queen and king of the genre - had crime novels published for the first time. They ushered in two decades of exemplary mystery writing, the era of the whodunit, the impossible crime and the locked-room mystery, with stories that have thrilled and baffled generations of readers.

 This new volume in the Bodies from the Library series features the work of 18 prolific authors who, like Christie and Crofts, saw their popularity soar during the Golden Age. Aside from novels, they all wrote short fiction - stories, serials and plays - and although most of them have been collected in books over the last 100 years, here are the ones that got away.

 In this book you will encounter classic series detectives including Colonel Gore, Roger Sheringham, Hildegarde Withers and Henri Bencolin; Hercule Poirot solves 'The Incident of the Dog's Ball'; Roderick Alleyn returns to New Zealand in a recently discovered television drama by Ngaio Marsh; and Dorothy L. Sayers' chilling 'The House of the Poplars' is published for the first time.

 With a full-length novella by John Dickson Carr and an unpublished radio script by Cyril Hare, this diverse collection concludes with some early 'flash fiction' commissioned by Collins' Crime Club in 1938. Each mini story had to feature an orange, resulting in six very different tales from Peter Cheyney, Ethel Lina White, David Hume, Nicholas Blake, John Rhode and - in his only foray into writing detective fiction - the publisher himself, William Collins.

Bodies from the Library 3 - Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection

A wealthy family

 A fatal cup of tea

 Rex Fortescue was enjoying his morning cup of tea when he met his untimely end.

 Suspicions naturally turn to his wife. He was filthy rich, after all.

 Then she too is found dead.

 Strange clues have Scotland Yard's finest minds scratching their heads. Poisoned marmalade. Dead blackbirds. A victim found with a pocketful of rye.

 It's up to Jane Marple to put the pieces of this strange puzzle together.

 Never underestimate Miss Marple

 'Captivating and addictive, Agatha Christie's work never fails to delight.'Jean Kwok

 'This is the best of the novels starring Christie's Miss Marple.'

 New York Times

A Pocket Full of Rye

Un lieu, une date : l'assassin annonce ses crimes et lance un défi à Hercule Poirot. L'assassin est-il un maniaque des annuaires téléphoniques et des indicateurs de chemins de fer ? Celui qui signe A.B.C. tue par ordre alphabétique.

A.B.C. contre Poirot

Tommy Beresford and Prudence 'Tuppence' Cowley are young, in love… and flat broke. Just after Great War, there are few jobs available and the couple are desperately short of money. Restless for excitement, they decide to embark on a daring business scheme: Young Adventurers Ltd.—"willing to do anything, go anywhere." Hiring themselves out proves to be a smart move for the couple. In their first assignment for the mysterious Mr. Whittingtont, all Tuppence has to do in their first job is take an all-expense paid trip to Paris and pose as an American named Jane Finn. But with the assignment comes a bribe to keep quiet, a threat to her life, and the disappearance of her new employer. Now their newest job are playing detective.Where is the real Jane Finn? The mere mention of her name produces a very strange reaction all over London. So strange, in fact, that they decided to find this mysterious missing lady. She has been missing for five years. And neither her body nor the secret documents she was carrying have ever been found. Now post-war England's economic recovery depends on finding her and getting the papers back. But he two young working undercover for the British ministry know only that her name and the only photo of her is in the hands of her rich American cousin. It isn’t long before they find themselves plunged into more danger than they ever could have imagined—a danger that could put an abrupt end to their business… and their lives.

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