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...

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Gipsy’s Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea – and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after. Yet, as he left the village, a shadow of menace hung over the land. For this was the place where accidents happened. Perhaps Michael should have heeded the locals’ warnings: ‘There’s no luck for them as meddles with Gipsy’s Acre.’ Michael Rogers is a man who is about to learn the true meaning of the old saying ‘In my end is my beginning.’The title Endless Night was taken from William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence and describes Christie’s favourite theme in the novel: a “twisted” character, who always chooses evil over good.Christie finished Endless Night in six weeks, as opposed to the three-four months that most of her other novels took. Despite being in her seventies while writing it, she told an interviewer that being Michael, the twenty-something narrator, “wasn’t difficult. After all, you hear people like him talking all the time.”The book is dedicated to Christie's relative "Nora Prichard from whom I first heard the legend of Gipsy's Acre." Gipsy's Acre was a field on the Welsh moors.

La nuit qui ne finit pas

En a-t-on parlé de l'île du Nègre ! Elle avait, selon certains, été achetée par une star de Hollywood.Des journaux avaient insinué que l'amirauté britannique q'y livrait à des expériences ultrasecrètes. Bref, quand ils reçurent - sans savoir de qui - cette invitation à passer des vacances à l'île du Nègre, tous les dix accoururent.

Dix petits nègres

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

One Tuesday evening a group gathers at Miss Marple’s house and the conversation turns to unsolved crimes…The case of the disappearing bloodstains; the thief who committed his crime twice over; the message on the death-bed of a poisoned man which read ‘heap of fish’; the strange case of the invisible will; a spiritualist who warned that ‘Blue Geranium’ meant death…Now pit your wits against the powers of deduction of the ‘Tuesday Night Club’.

Miss Marple au Club du Mardi

Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer.  An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer - in case he or she decides to strike again.

MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS

Basking in the sunshine and lamenting the quiet of the Caribbean, Jane Marple's interest is aroused by an old soldier's yarn about a strange coincidence. Infuriatingly, just as he was about to show her a photograph, the Major's attention wandered. He never did finish the story.

A caribbean mystery

Cinq petits cochons Cinq témoignages accablants ont fait condamner à la détention perpétuelle Caroline, la femme de Amyas Crale, peintre renommé, mort empoisonné.
Seize ans après, Hercule Poirot, le détective belge qu'Agatha Christie a rendu célèbre, prend l'affaire en main. Ne s'arrêtant pas aux évidences, tirant parti du moindre indice, il fait éclater une vérité à laquelle personne ne s'attendait.

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