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

 Mr Parker Pyne is asked to catch a diamond thief during regatta festivities at Dartmouth harbour when more conventional search methods prove fruitless.

The Regatta Mystery - An Agatha Christie Short Story

Cette fois-ci, après un épuisant effort intellectuel, la rédaction de son " œuvre maîtresse ", une analyse des maîtres du roman policier, Hercule Poirot est bien décidé à jouir d'un repos mérité... N'a-t-il pas plus d'une fois prouvé qu'il était le roi des détectives, l'infaillible dont la réputation n'est plus à faire ? Impossible de mettre en doute ses capacités... Et pourtant, voilà qu'une jeune femme vient lui déclarer qu'il est trop vieux pour l'aider ! Alors qu'elle-même est venue le consulter au sujet d'un crime qu'elle n'est pas sûre d'avoir commis... Ah ! cette nouvelle génération... Cheveux longs, idées courtes... Mais Poirot va leur montrer... Trop vieux, lui... Non, mais!

La Troisième Fille

Sir Stafford Nye's journey home from Malaya to London takes an unexpected twist in the passenger lounge at Frankfurt - a young woman confides in him that someone is trying to kill her. Yet their paths cross again and again - and each time the mystery woman is introduced as a different person.

Passenger to Frankfurt

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

 Scotland Yard ask the Beresfords to infiltrate a gang to find the source of counterfeit money. Delighted at the chance to use the methods of Edgar Wallace, they revel in gambling, drinking and the affections of the opposite sex while chasing a trail of crisp counterfeit notes.

The Crackler - An Agatha Christie Short Story

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.

Monsieur Brown

Dix petits nègres / L'homme au complet marron

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

Une jeune infirmière, Amy Leatheran, arrive sur le chantier de fouilles de Tell Yarimjah, afin de s'occuper de Mrs Leidner, la femme d'un archéologue, qui est la proie d'angoisses nocturnes. Lorsque cette dernière sera assassinée, Amy aura l'immense privilège de voir Hercule Poirot à l'oeuvre...

Meurtre en Mésopotamie

Framed in the doorway of Poirot’s bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man’s gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell. Who was he? Was he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what was the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper? Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigue, risking his life to uncover the truth about ‘Number Four’.

The Regatta Mystery - An Agatha Christie Short Story

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