Il y a seize ans, un crime a été commis pour lequel une femme fut injustement condamnée. Hercule Poirot mène l'enquête.

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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.

Témoin Muet

Un soir, Hercule Poirot dîne dans un restaurant londonien. Sa table jouxte celle d'un jeune couple apparemment très épris, Jackie de Bellefort et Simon Doyle. Quelques semaines plus tard, à l'occasion d'une croisière sur le Nil, le grand détective a la surprise de retrouver Simon Doyle marié à Linett Ridgeway. S'apercevant que Jackie s'ingénie à croiser le chemin du jeune couple, Hercule Poirot sent la tragédie venir à grand pas et il a peur... Tout au long de ce dramatique chassé-croisé amoureux, Poirot, moins orgueilleux qu'à l'accoutumée, fait montre d'une grande psychologie pour cerner chacun des personnages et tenter de raisonner ce trio de jeunes gens qui court à sa perte. Dans cette intrigue poignante au suspense haletant, on retrouve ce style inimitable, si typiquement anglais, et ces irrésistibles pointes d'humour tout en finesse signées Agatha Christie. --Sophie Colpaert

Mort Sur Le Nil

Chacun sait qu'Hercule Poirot est le plus grand détective de tous les temps. Un homme se suicide quelques heures après lui avoir demandé assistance ? Allons donc ! Ce serait trop facile, et le petit belge sait bien que personne ne fait appel à lui sans raison... Pour lui, rien de plus facile que de déjouer les jeux de glaces, voir au-delà du miroir et faire faillir la réalité des apparences. Le Miroir du mort, Feux d'artifice, L'invraisemblable vol : des nouvelles où le génie de la déduction d'Hercule Poirot s'en donne à cœur joie.

Le miroir du mort

The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his accident under the care of his sister, Joanna. But soon a series of vicious poison-pen letters destroys the village's quiet charm, eventually causing one recipient to commit suicide. The vicar, the doctor, the servants—all are on the verge of accusing one another when help arrives from an unexpected quarter. The vicar's houseguest happens to be none other than Jane Marple.

La plume empoisonnée

Problem at Pollensa Bay - Parker PyneThe Second Gong - PoirotYellow Iris - PoirotThe Harlequin Tea Set - Harley Quin The Regatta Mystery - Parker Pyne The Love Detectives - Harley Quin Next To A Dog - RomanceMagnolia Blossom - Romance

Le second coup de gong

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.

Mr Brown

La mort n'est pas une fin / Meurtre au champagne

Even the great Poirot harbours a deep and abiding fear of the dentist, so it is with trepidation that he arrives at the celebrated Dr Morley’s surgery for an examination.Yet even Poirot couldn’t have guessed that only hours later he would be examining the dentist, dead in his surgery – an apparent suicide.Why would a successful dentist choose to kill himself on such a busy day? Poirot turns to the other patients for answers – but only finds other, darker questions.

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