Crime & mystery/Classic fictionFour first edition hardback facsimiles of the Poirot books, published to mark the 80th anniversary of his first appearance and to celebrate his new-found success on television.

Three Act Tragedy

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

 It's been many years since Mr. Satterthwaite has seen Mr. Harley Quin, so when Satterthwaite, awaiting his broken down car, goes to a tea shop called the Harlequin café, he begins to think of his friend. A self-described snob, Satterthwaite orders coffee and examines the coloured china when a bolt of sunlight comes in and the very same Mr. Quin walks through the door. Enigmatic as ever Mr. Quin and his diligent dog Hermes stay for a Turkish coffee with the excitable Satterthwaite whilst the car is fixed, and Satterthwaite cannot help but bore Mr. Quin with the very long history of the family he is off to visit. Their conversation is interrupted by the abrupt entrance of the member of that very same family intent upon replacing her harlequin cups. Satterthwaite desperately persuades Quin to accompany him, but, all the bereft Satterthwaite is left with is one word, 'Daltonism.' What is the importance of Quin turning up at the tea shop on that day and what does that word have to do with anything, it all comes to make complete sense.

The Harlequin Tea Set - An Agatha Christie Short Story

Il se passe quelque chose d'anormal. Les dix personnes conviees sur l'ile du Negre en ont la certitude. Pourquoi leur hote est-il absent? Soudain, une voix s'eleve, accusant d'un crime chaque invite. Commence alors une ronde mortelle, rythmee par les couplets d'une etrange comptine...

Dix petits nègres

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 glace, aller au-delà du miroir et faire jaillir la réalité des apparences...
« Le miroir du mort », « Feux d'artifice », « L'invraisemblable vol »: trois nouvelles où le génie de la déduction d'Hercule Poirot s'en donne à coeur joie.

Poirot résout trois énigmes

Dix Petits Nègres / Meurtre Au Champagne

A wealthy Greek businessman is found dead at his London home.

 The Leonides were one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That was until the head of the household, Aristide, was murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection.

 Suspicion naturally falls on the old man's young widow, fifty years his junior. But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward, fiance of the late millionare's granddaughter.

The Crooked House

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

 Sir Henry Clithering returns to Mary Mead to dine with his friends the Bantrys and suggests inviting Miss Marple. Over dinner they discuss the peculiar case of a superstitious woman who is told that a blue geranium will bring about her death. When she dies, her loyal husband is in the frame for her murder.

The Blue Geranium - A Miss Marple Short Story

TWO BESTSELLING MYSTERIES IN ONE GREAT PACKAGE! From the Queen of Mystery, The Secret of Chimneys, in which a young drifter performs a favor for a friend that pulls him into the heart of a deadly conspiracy, and A Murder is Announced, where Miss Marple unravels a fiendish puzzle involving a small-town newspaper advertisement. THE SECRET OF CHIMNEYSLittle did Anthony Cade suspect that an errand for a friend would place him at the center of a deadly conspiracy. Drawn into a web of intrigue, he begins to realize that the simple favor has placed him in serious danger. As events unfold, the combined forces of Scotland Yard and the French Sûreté gradually converge on Chimneys, the great country estate that hides an amazing secret.

The Secret of Chimneys & A Murder is Announced Bundle - Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Mysteries

C'est pour une bien mince affaire qu'on dérange le grand Hercule Poirot : dans une pension de famille peuplée en majeure partie d'étudiants, il s'est produit toute une série de menus larcins et de petits actes de malveillance - délits trop insignifiants pour qu'on prévienne la police et qui semblent encore moins dignes du génie de Poirot.
Mais la liste des méfaits est si bizarre que l'attention du célèbre détective en est piquée. Alors que l'enquête commence, les choses se gâtent. En fait, elles deviennent intéressantes : trois cadavres resteront sur le carreau.
Le prix à payer pour la découverte d'un bien vilain trafic...

Three Act Tragedy

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