Mrs Mac Ginty Est Morte

Quand on découvre le colonel Protheroe tué d'une balle dans la tête dans le bureau du presbytère, le pasteur a sans doute déjà une idée sur l'identité possible de l'assassin ou, en tout cas, sur un mobile vraisemblable. N'assiste-t-il pas au thé hebdomadaire de sa femme, où s'échangent potins et cancans ?

L'affaire Protheroe

Hercule Poirot quitte la scène / Mr Brown

‘Anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe,’ declared the parson, brandishing a carving knife above a joint of roast beef, ‘would be doing the world at large a favour!’ It was a careless remark for a man of the cloth. And one which was to come back and haunt the clergyman just a few hours later – when the colonel was found shot dead in the clergyman’s study. But as Miss Marple soon discovers, the whole village seems to have had a motive to kill Colonel Protheroe.

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.

 Edward Palgrove gets more than he bargained for when he buys a basket of fruit and a second-hand car.

A Fruitful Sunday - An Agatha Christie Short Story

Le beau et désargenté Leonard Vole a-t-il tué la vieille et fortunée miss French, afin d'hériter? Sa femme parviendra-t-elle à le disculper? Bien que le docteur Meynelle ait recommandé à Mrs Harper d'éviter les émotions fortes, celle-ci reçoit un choc lorsqu'elle entend la voix de son défunt époux la rappeler à lui, à travers son nouveau poste de radio. Le jeune Jack Harrington est-il en train de perdre la raison ou fait-il l'objet d'une sombre machination ? A 9 h 25, tous les matins, il est le seul à entendre une femme crier " A l'assassin ! ". Quant au célèbre détective privé Hercule Poirot, à travers ces cinq nouvelles, il va avoir fort à faire : résoudre l'énigme d'un habitué du restaurant " Gallart Endeavour " ; déjouer l'arnaque d'une belle jeune femme ; élucider le meurtre de Valentine Chantry, morte empoisonnée sur l'Ile de Rhodes; comprendre comment le rêve prémonitoire du milliardaire excentrique, Benedict Farley, a pu se réaliser. Et enquêter sur le célèbre mystère du Bahut espagnol.

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Murder of the Orient-Express

Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects; the stockbroker who went to market; the amateur herbalist who stayed at home; the three-time divorcee who had roast beef and the devoted governess who had none.

Five little pigs

First published in book form in 1947, The Labours of Hercules comprises an even dozen mysteries starring Christie's most popular sleuth, the ever-dignified Hercule Poirot. The introductory chapter of the collection sets up the rest of the book. At a dinner party, another guest compares the labors of Poirot to those of Hercules, and the little Belgian is not amused. He has already decided to retire, but makes up his mind to take on 12 great cases - each somehow reflecting the labors accomplished by Hercules - as a farewell to crime solving. All of the cases are quite different from each other, from searching for a lost poet to hunting down a particularly ferocious murderer, from solving mysterious deaths of religious cult members to saving a young would-be politician from potential blackmailers. Frequent Christie interpreter Hugh Fraser brings stories like The Cretan Bull and The Apples of the Hesperides to dazzling life.

Mrs Mac Ginty Est Morte

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