‘Anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe,’ declared the parson, brandishing a carving knife above a joint of roast beef, ‘would be doing the world at large a favour!’ It was a careless remark for a man of the cloth. And one which was to come back and haunt the clergyman just a few hours later – when the colonel was found shot dead in the clergyman’s study. But as Miss Marple soon discovers, the whole village seems to have had a motive to kill Colonel Protheroe.

L'affaire Protheroe

Le célèbre détective belge d'Agatha Christie a résolu les affaires les plus mystérieuses a l'aide de ses petites cellules grises . Découvrez, à travers ses propres mots, l'homme qui se cache derrière sa fameuse moustache, et la liberté de la Reine du Crime qui l'a inventé !Cette édition inclut un texte inédit d'Agatha Christie sur la relation d'amour / haine qu'elle a tissée avec le personnage d'Hercule Poirot..

Les petites cellules grises

Agatha Christie's Complete Secret Notebooks brings together for the first time Secret Notebooks and Murder in the Making, two volumes that explore the fascinating contents of her 73 notebooks. This includes illustrations, deleted extracts, unused ideas, two unpublished Poirot stories and a lost Miss Marple.

 When Agatha Christie died in 1976, aged 85, she had become the world's most popular author. With sales of more than two billion copies worldwide in more than 100 countries, she had achieved the impossible - more than one book every year since the 1920s, every one a bestseller.

 So prolific was Agatha Christie's output - 66 crime novels, 20 plays, 6 romance books under a pseudonym and over 150 short stories - it was often claimed that she had a photographic memory. Was this true? Or did she resort over those 55 years to more mundane methods of working out her ingenious crimes?

 Following the death of Agatha's daughter, Rosalind, at the end of 2004, a remarkable secret was revealed. Unearthed among her affairs at the family home of Greenway were Agatha Christie's private notebooks, 73 handwritten volumes of notes, lists and drafts outlining all her plans for her many books, plays and stories. Buried in this treasure trove, all in her unmistakable handwriting, are revelations and details that will fascinate anyone who has ever read or watched an Agatha Christie story.

 Christie archivist and expert John Curran leads the reader through the six decades of Agatha Christie's writing career, unearthing some remarkable clues to her success and a number of never-before-published excerpts and stories from her archives. This book features Agatha's original ending of her very first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, painstakingly transcribed from her notebooks. It also includes a number of short stories from the archives reproduced in full, including the unpublished The Man Who Knew, How I Created Hercule Poirot, and an early draft for a Miss Marple story, The Case of the Caretaker's Wife.

Agatha Christie’s Complete Secret Notebooks - Stories and Secrets of Murder in the Making

Un matin, en lisant le journal, Miss Marple apprend le deces d'une lointaine connaissance. Un notaire la contacte alors pour lui annoncer que M. Rafiel a l'intention de lui leguer une partie consequente de son heritage, en echange d'une faveur posthume... Dans une lettre pour le moins enigmatique, le defunt sollicite son flair legendaire pour resoudre une affaire de crime, sans lui donner plus d'explications, hormis le nom de code de l'enquete: Nemesis.En veritable incarnation de la deesse grecque de la vengeance et de la justice, et malgre son age avance, Miss Marple va mettre ses dons de deduction au service de feu M. Rafiel et decouvrir peu a peu les details de sa mission lors d'une excursion touristique a travers l'Angleterre.Traduit de l'anglais par Jean-Michel Alamagny

Némésis

Agatha Christie's world-famous serial killer mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.

The abc murders

1 livre/2 romansC'est par le plus grand des hasards qu'Hercule Poirot se trouve à bord de l'Orient-Express. Alors qu'il est bloqué par la neige, on découvre, dans l'une des voitures, le corps d'un Américain sauvagement assassiné à coups de couteau. Le meurtrier se cache forcément parmi les voyageurs... Mais qui a bien pu commettre pareil crime ?En cherchant une balle de golf, Bobby découvre un individu tombé de la falaise. Quelques secondes avant de succomber, l'homme prononce ces mystérieuses paroles : "Pourquoi pas Evans ?". L'enquête conclut rapidement à un accident. Un accident, c'est vite dit. L'amie du garçon, la jeune comtesse Frankie, a son idée là dessus.

Le crime de l'orient express/Pourquoi pas evans ?

From the very first book publication in 1920 to the recent film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably the world's favourite fictional detective.

 This book tells his story decade-by-decade, exploring his appearances not only in the original novels, short stories and plays but also across stage, screen and radio productions.

 Poirot has had near-permanent presence in the public eye ever since the 1920 publication of The Mysterious Affair at Styles. From character development, publication history and private discussion concerning the original stories themselves, to early forays on to the stage and screen, the story of Poirot is as fascinating as it is enduring.

 Based on the author's original research, review excerpts and original Agatha Christie correspondence, Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World is a lively and accessible history of the character, offering new information and helpful pieces of context, that will delight all Agatha Christie fans, from a new generation of readers to those already highly familiar with the canon.

Agatha Christie’s Poirot - The Greatest Detective in the World

Du fond de son fauteuil, tandis qu'elle tricote, Miss Marple, une vieille demoiselle pleine de malice écoute ses amis - un colonel et un haut fonctionnarie de Scotland Yard, tous deux à la retraite, un vieux pasteur et un médecin plein d'expérience, une charmante actrice - raconter sept étranges histoires où glisse l'ombre d'un criminel inconnu...Pourquoi cette dame anglaise tellement comme il faut a-t-elle tué sa demoiselle de compagnie? Qui a bien pu subtiliser le testament de ce vieux monsieur ? Et si ce n'est pas Mabel qui a empoisonné son mari, alors qui ? La vielle demoiselle, impavide dans son fauteuil, dénoue les intrigues et les plans confuses avec la même assurance tranquille qu'elle noue les points de son éternel tricot.

Miss Marple au club du mardi / Le club du mardi continue

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

 In order to help a young man impress the woman he wants to marry, the Beresfords are enlisted to crack her near impossible alibi and claim of being in two places at once. Tommy and Tuppence set out to uncover the truth.

L'affaire Protheroe

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