When Miss Marple comes up from the countryside for a holiday in London, she finds what she's looking for at Bertram's Hotel: traditional decor, impeccable service and an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer.

Miss Marple ; at Bertram's hotel

Dans la maison où a été assassinée Mme Argyle, n'étaient présents à l'heure du crime que le mari, la gouvernante, une infirmière et les cinq enfants adoptés par le couple. Déclaré coupable, un des garçons est mort en prison quand, deux ans après le procès, un témoin à décharge se présente pour confirmer son alibi. Cependant, la famille fera grise mine à cet homme scrupuleux  venu réhabiliter le jeune homme. C'est qu'il n'y a pas qu'une vérité : celle que fera éclater le docteur Calgary est bien sombre et, plus cruellement que tout autre, blessera bien du monde.

Témoin indésirable

An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Hercule Poirot’s interest. But when he saw the list of stolen and vandalized items – including a stethoscope, some old flannel trousers, a box of chocolates, a slashed rucksack and a diamond ring found in a bowl of soup – he congratulated the warden, Mrs Hubbard, on a ‘unique and beautiful problem’. The list made absolutely no sense at all. But, reasoned Poirot, if this was merely a petty thief at work, why was everyone at the hostel so frightened?

Pension Vanilos

Dix personnes apparemment sans point commun se retrouvent sur l'île du Nègre, invités par un mystérieux M. Owen, malheureusement absent. Un couple de domestiques, récemment engagé, veille au confort des invités. Sur une table du salon, dix statuettes de nègres. Dans les chambres, une comptine racontant l'élimination minutieuse de dix petits nègres. Après le premier repas, une voix mystérieuse s'élève dans la maison, reprochant à chacun un ou plusieurs crimes. Un des convives s'étrangle et meurt, comme la première victime de la comptine. Une statuette disparaît. Et les morts se succèdent, suivant le texte à la lettre. La psychose monte. Le coupable se cache-t-il dans l'île, parmi les convives ? Une poignée de personnages admirablement campés, une ambiance tendue, un suspense à couper le souffle et une fin complètement inattendue... La reine de crime nous livre ici un classique de la littérature policière ! --Sophie Colpaert

Dix Petits Negres

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...

BY THE PRICKING OF MY THUMBS - A TOMMY & TUPPENCE MYSTERY

Richard Abernethie est decede brusquement chez lui d'une crise cardiaque. C'est ce qu'ont ecrit les journaux. Tous les proches accourent pour les obseques et tout se serait bien passe si cette ecervelee de Cora n'avait betement demande: Il a bien ete assassine, n'est-ce pas ? Cette question incongrue jette, evidemment, un froid dans la reunion de famille. Six ou huit coups de hache assenes, des le lendemain, par une main anonyme sur le crane de la bavarde, et un peu d'arsenic fourre dans le gateau de sa dame de compagnie, justifieront l'intervention d'Hercule Poirot. Son fameux sens de la deduction prouvera que la question de Cora n'etait pas si sotte... "Traduit de l'anglais par Jean-Marc Mendel""

Les Indiscretions D'Hercule Poirot

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

A bit of adventure and quick cash is all that good-natured drifter Anthony Cade is looking for when he accepts a messenger job from an old friend. It sounds so simple: deliver the provocative memoirs of a recently deceased European count to a London publisher. Little did Anthony suspect that a simple errand to deliver the manuscript on behalf of his friend would drop him right in the middle of an international conspiracy, and he begins to realize that it has placed him in serious danger. Why were Count Stylptich's memoirs so important? And what was "King Victor" really after? The parcel holds ore than scandalous royal secrets - because it contains a stash of letters that suggest blackmail. Someone would stop at nothing to prevent the monarchy being restored in faraway Herzoslovakia.Wherever ravishing Virginia Revel went, death seemed sure to follow. First her husband died. The next to perish was a foreign prince whose ruthless power was matched by his scandalous passions. Then a bungling blackmailer followed them into the grave. Murder, blackmail, stolen letters, and a fabulous missing jewel: all under the not always co-operative eyes of Scotland Yard and the Surete. All threads lead to Chimneys, one of England's historic country house estates, where a master murderer mingled with the aristocratic guests. Virginia could turn to only one person to prove her innocence and end her nightmare, and she could only pray that she had not put her life into the hands of the man who was out to take it....

Le secret de Chimneys

TWO BESTSELLING MYSTERIES IN ONE GREAT PACKAGE! From the Queen of Mystery, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in which Hercule Poirot solves his first case, and The ABC Murders, which sets Hercule Poirot on the trail of a serial killer. THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLESWho poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorp and how did the murderer penetrate and escape from her locked bedroom? Suspects abound in the quaint village of Styles St. Mary-from the heiress's fawning new husband to her two stepsons, her volatile housekeeper, and a pretty nurse who works in a hospital dispensary. With impeccable timing, and making his unforgettable debut, the brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is on the case. THE ABC MURDERSThere's a serial killer on the loose, working his way through the alphabet and the whole country is in a state of panic. A is for Mrs. Ascher in Andover, B is for Betty Barnard in Bexhill, C is for Sir Carmichael Clarke in Churston. With each murder, the killer is getting more confident-but leaving a trail of deliberate clues to taunt the proud Hercule Poirot might just prove to be the first, and fatal, mistake.

Miss Marple ; at Bertram's hotel

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