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

 Parker Pyne arranges for a mild-mannered clerk with a passion for suspense novels to do some real-life spy work. But fact can be stranger than fiction.

The Case of the City Clerk - An Agatha Christie Short Story

In Agatha Christie’s classic, Sleeping Murder, the indomitable Miss Marple turns ghost hunter and uncovers shocking evidence of a perfect crime.Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernize the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs.In fear, Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between them, they were to solve a “perfect” crime committed many years before.

La Dernière énigme

A classic novel of desire and jealousy.

 Ann Prentice falls in love with Richard Cauldfield and hopes for new happiness. Her only child, Sarah, cannot contemplate the idea of her mother marrying again and wrecks any chance of her remarriage. Resentment and jealousy corrode their relationship as each seeks relief in different directions. Are mother and daughter destined to be enemies for life or will their underlying love for each other finally win through?

 Famous for her ingenious crime books and plays, Agatha Christie also wrote about crimes of the heart, six bittersweet and very personal novels, as compelling and memorable as the best of her work.

A Daughter's a Daughter

Une autobiographie

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

 When Miss Marple dines at the Bantrys the conversation always turns to murder. Whilst Dr Lloyd was in the Canary Islands, a woman drowned in the sea. To all it seems an accident, but one eyewitness says her paid companion deliberately drowned her.

The Companion - A Miss Marple Short Story

Cette fois-ci, après un épuisant effort intellectuel, la rédaction de son " œuvre maîtresse ", une analyse des maîtres du roman policier, Hercule Poirot est bien décidé à jouir d'un repos mérité... N'a-t-il pas plus d'une fois prouvé qu'il était le roi des détectives, l'infaillible dont la réputation n'est plus à faire ?
Impossible de mettre en doute ses capacités... Et pourtant, voilà qu'une jeune femme vient lui déclarer qu'il est trop vieux pour l'aider ! Alors qu'elle-même est venue le consulter au sujet d'un crime qu'elle n'est pas sûre d'avoir commis... Ah ! cette nouvelle génération... Cheveux longs, idées courtes... Mais Poirot va leur montrer... Trop vieux, lui... Non, mais !

La Troisième fille

An old woman in a nursing home speaks of a child buried behind the fireplace… When Tommy and Tuppence visited an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they thought nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada was a very difficult old lady. But when Mrs Lockett mentioned a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs Lancaster talked about ‘something behind the fireplace’, Tommy and Tuppence found themselves caught up in an unexpected adventure involving possible black magic…

Mon petit doigt m'a dit

« Etes vous heureux ? Dans le cas contraire, consulte Mr Parker Pyne, 17 Richmond Street. »Cette annonce, parue dans le Times attire bien des clients un peu incrédules mais sans aucun doute malheureux. Aux quatre coins du monde, à Delphes, Chiraz ou Londres, Parker Pyne, professeur de bonheur, s'engage à vous faire retrouver l'amour et la joie de vivre. Évidemment, ses tarifs peuvent parfois paraître un peu élevés, mais qui ne risque rien n'a rien, et vous pouvez être sûr que Parker Pyne mettra en oeuvre tous les moyens nécessaires, y compris les mises en scène les plus abracadabrantes...

Mr. Parker Pyne

An elderly widow is murdered at a clifftop seaside house...What is the connection between a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and the romantic life of a famous tennis player? To the casual observer, apparently nothing. But when a houseparty gathers at Gull's Point, the seaside home of an elderly widow, earlier events come to a dramatic head. It's all part of a carefully paid plan - for murder...

The Case of the City Clerk - An Agatha Christie Short Story

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