This is the sequel to "The Secret of Chimneys", the second novel to feature Superintendent Battle and "Bundle" Brent. As a prank, eight alarm clocks are set to wake up champion sleeper, Gerry Wade. But when morning arrives, one clock is missing and the prank backfires, with tragic consequences.

The seven dials mystery

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

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

 Agatha Christie's first ever short story, originally titled 'House of Beauty', explores insanity, death and immortality in a brief tale about the effects of a macabre recurring dream on a man's life.

The House of Dreams - An Agatha Christie Short Story

She fell head over heels for the charming young man one afternoon. And by nightfall, Victoria Jones had conspired to follow him to Baghdad. But no daydream of love could match the real life adventure that unfolded: a stranger was stabbed in her bed, someone issued a hushed warning, and her rival for Edward's affections neatly arranged her kidnapping. From the steamy Arab marketplace to the vast and arid desert, Victoria was pursued by an unknown power that threatened not only her, but the fate of the entire world ...

Rendez-Vous à Bagdad

An old widow is brutally killed in the parlour of her cottage...  ''Mrs McGinty''s dead!'' ''How did she die?'' ''Down on one knee, just like I!''  The old children''s game now seemed rather tasteless. The real Mrs McGinty was killed by a crushing blow to the back of the head and her pitifully small savings were stolen.  Suspicion falls immediately on her lodger, hard up and out of a job. Hercule Poirot has other ideas - unaware that his own life is now in great danger...

MRS MCGINTY''S DEAD

Alerte au ministère de la Défense : les plans du nouveau sous-marin de type Z ont disparu. Un seul homme est susceptible de débrouiller l'énigme avec discrétion et efficacité : Hercule Poirot, qui nous emmène ainsi aux frontières du monde politique et de l'espionnage...
  A Hunter's Lodge, au contraire, c'est dans une vieille Angleterre aristocratique et victorienne que Poirot - sans quitter sa chambre - va démasquer l'assassin.
  Dans La Capture du Cerbère, enfin, le petit détective à moustaches découvre l'enfer moderne des boîtes, de la drogue et du métro...
  Trois étapes, trois époques dans la carrière d'Hercule Poirot, où Agatha Christie dépeint les milieux les plus divers avec une exceptionnelle aisance.

Les plans du sous-marin

After an accident on the stairs, Emily becomes convinced that one of her relatives is trying to kill her. On April 17th she writes her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously he doesn't receive the letter until June 28th... by which time Emily is already dead.

Dumb witness

One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been gabbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a massive seizure. But for whom was the deadly poison really intended?Marina’s frozen expression suggested she had witnessed something horrific. But, while others searched for material evidence, Jane Marple conducted a very different investigation – into human nature.

Lymstock is a town with more than its share of secrets - a town where even a outbreak of anonymous hate-mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs Symmington, commits suicide. Only Miss Marple questions the coroner's verdict of suicide.

The seven dials mystery

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