Mort sur le Nil / Le meurtre de Roger Ackroyd / Un cadavre dans la bibliothèque / La maison du péril

Quoi de plus reposant et tranquille qu'une croisière sur le Nil ? Sauf quand on retrouve à bord le corps de Linnet Ridgeway tuée d'une balle dans la tête. Linnet avait tout pour elle, jeunesse, beauté, richesse... tout, jusqu'à ce qu'elle perde la vie !
Parmi les passagers, tous sous le choc d'une telle découverte, se trouve Hercule Poirot, le célèbre détective belge. Et voilà que justement il se rappelle avoir entendu un homme dire au sujet de la victime : « Je poserai bien mon pistolet contre sa tempe et j'appuierai sur la gâchette ! »
Mais cette déclaration, si elle n'est pas anodine, ne fait pas forcément de vous le coupable idéal.

Traduit de l'anglais par Elise Champon et Robert Nobret.

Mort sur le Nil

Pretty, young Anne came to London looking for adventure. In fact, adventure comes looking for her - and finds her immediately at Hyde Park Corner tube station. Anne is present on the platform when a thin man, reeking of mothballs, loses his balance and is electrocuted on the rails.

The man in the brown suit

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

 In one of Agatha Christie's earliest short stories, a plucky young actress must rely on her wits to thwart the machinations of a dark-hearted blackmailer.

The Actress - An Agatha Christie Short Story

She fell head over heels for the charming young man one afternoon. And by nightfall, Victoria Jones had conspired to follow him to Baghdad. But no daydream of love could match the real life adventure that unfolded: a stranger was stabbed in her bed, someone issued a hushed warning, and her rival for Edward's affections neatly arranged her kidnapping. From the steamy Arab marketplace to the vast and arid desert, Victoria was pursued by an unknown power that threatened not only her, but the fate of the entire world ...

Rendez Vous à Bagdad

Recovering from amnesia, Dr. Arthur Calgary discovers that he alone could have provided an alibi in a scandalous murder trial. It ended in the conviction of Jacko Argyle. The victim was Jacko's own mother, and to make matters worse, he died in prison. But the young man's innocence means that someone else killed the Argyle matriarch, and would certainly kill again to remain in the shadows. Shaded in the moral ambiguity of murder, the provocative psychological puzzler of guilt, vengeance, and blood secrets is among Agatha Christie's personal favorites.

Témoin indésirable

*La Disparition de M. Davenheim (The Disappearence of Mr Davenheim)*Le Double Indice (The Double Clue)*Le Guêpier (Wasps' Nest)*La Poupée de la couturière (Dressmaker's Doll)*Le Signal rouge (The Red Signal)*SOS (SOS)

Allo, Hercule Poirot

A repugnant Amercian widow is killed during a trip to Petra.

 Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her.

 With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he'd overheard back in Jerusalem: 'You see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?' Mrs Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he'd ever met.

Appointment with Death

La jeune Nick Buckley a invite quelques amis dans sa belle maison des Cornouailles. Mais ces vacances manquent de tourner au drame lorsque, par trois fois, Nick echappe de justesse a la mort. Pour Hercule Poirot, sejournant par hasard dans un hotel voisin, il ne peut s'agir d'accidents. Le fameux detective met donc sans tarder ses talents au service de la jeune femme afin de decouvrir qui cherche a l'eliminer."Traduction de Robert Nobret entierement revisee""

Mort sur le Nil / Le meurtre de Roger Ackroyd / Un cadavre dans la bibliothèque / La maison du péril

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