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.

Un, deux, trois...

"Un meurtre sera commis à Little Paddocks le vendredi 29 octobre à 18 heures 30 très précises." Cette étrange annonce parue dans la gazette locale émoustille fort la petite communauté de Chipping Cleghorn, et personne ne doute qu'il s'agit là d'une plaisanterie de mauvais goût. Pourtant, il y aura bien une victime...

Un meurtre sera commis le...

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

All 51 Hercule Poirot short stories presented in chonological order in a single volume - plus a bonus story not seen for more than 70 years.

 'My name is Hercule Poirot and I am probably the greatest detective in the world.'

 The dapper, moustache-twirling little Belgian with the egg-shaped head, curious mannerisms and inordinate respect for his own 'little grey cells' has solved some of the most puzzling crimes of the century. Appearing in Agatha Christie's very first novel in 1920 and her very last in 1975, Hercule Poirot became the most celebrated detective since Sherlock Holmes, appearing in 33 novels, a play, and these 51 short stories.

 Arranged in their original publication order, these short stories provide a feast for hardened Agatha Christie addicts as well as those who have grown to love the detective through his many film and television appearances.

 This edition now also includes Poirot and the Regatta Mystery, an early version of an Agatha Christie story not published since 1936!

Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories

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

Amy Leatheran, une jeune infirmière, accepte de partir en Mésopotamie sur un chantier de fouilles afin de prendre soin de la femme de l'archéologue, en proie à de terribles angoisses nocturnes. Quand une série de meurtres inexpliqués se produit, la jeune femme est soulagée de voir apparaître Hercule Poirot qui visite justement le site. Malgré son indéniable talent, parviendra-t-il à empêcher le meurtrier de frapper à nouveau ? Première publication en français : 1939

Meurtre en Mésopotamie - Edition fac-similé prestige

Cela fait tout juste un an que le mari de Mrs Ferrars est mort. D'une gastrite aiguë. Enfin, c'est ce qu'il semble. Après tout, les symptômes de l'empoisonnement par l'arsenic sont presque les mêmes...
Hier, Mrs Ferrars est morte à son tour. Une trop forte dose de véronal. Suicide ? Allons donc ! Elle était encore jeune et très riche...
Et puis, aujourd'hui, Mr Ackroyd a été assassiné. Cette fois, le doute n'est pas permis. Mais pourquoi ? Bien sûr, Mrs Ferrars et Mr Ackroyd  paraissaient fort bien s'entendre. Surtout depuis la mort du mari. Mais de là à dire... Non, ce n'est pas possible... En tout cas, ce n'est pas si simple...

Le meurtre de Roger Ackroyd

This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 18 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including uncollected stories by Ngaio Marsh and John Dickson Carr. 

 The Golden Age of detective fiction had begun inauspiciously with the publication of E. C. Bentley's schismatic Trent's Last Case in 1913, but it hit its stride in 1920 when both Agatha Christie and Freeman Wills Crofts - latterly crowned queen and king of the genre - had crime novels published for the first time. They ushered in two decades of exemplary mystery writing, the era of the whodunit, the impossible crime and the locked-room mystery, with stories that have thrilled and baffled generations of readers.

 This new volume in the Bodies from the Library series features the work of 18 prolific authors who, like Christie and Crofts, saw their popularity soar during the Golden Age. Aside from novels, they all wrote short fiction - stories, serials and plays - and although most of them have been collected in books over the last 100 years, here are the ones that got away.

 In this book you will encounter classic series detectives including Colonel Gore, Roger Sheringham, Hildegarde Withers and Henri Bencolin; Hercule Poirot solves 'The Incident of the Dog's Ball'; Roderick Alleyn returns to New Zealand in a recently discovered television drama by Ngaio Marsh; and Dorothy L. Sayers' chilling 'The House of the Poplars' is published for the first time.

 With a full-length novella by John Dickson Carr and an unpublished radio script by Cyril Hare, this diverse collection concludes with some early 'flash fiction' commissioned by Collins' Crime Club in 1938. Each mini story had to feature an orange, resulting in six very different tales from Peter Cheyney, Ethel Lina White, David Hume, Nicholas Blake, John Rhode and - in his only foray into writing detective fiction - the publisher himself, William Collins.

Bodies from the Library 3 - Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection

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

 Maria Packington suspects her husband of having an affair. In an attempt to revitalise her marriage, she responds to an advert from Mr Parker Pyne - who promises to provide solutions to unhappiness. Maria's life soon undergoes a rapid transformation.

Un, deux, trois...

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