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

 A smashed mirror convinces Hercule Poirot that the apparent suicide of a client is far too convenient an explanation for what is obviously a gruesome case of murder.

The Dead Man’s Mirror - A Hercule Poirot Short Story

Agatha Christie's first ever murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover - includes for the first time the original courtroom climax as an alternate ending.

THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES

Hercule Poirot's Christmas

4:50 from Paddington

Considered to be one of Agatha Christie's most controversial mysteries, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd breaks all the rules of traditional mystery writing. The peaceful English village of King’s Abbot is stunned. First, the attractive widow Ferrars dies from an overdose of veronal. Not twenty-four hours later, Roger Ackroyd—the man she had planned to marry—is murdered. It is a baffling, complex case involving blackmail, suicide, and violent death, a cast that taxes Hercule Poirot’s “little grey cells” before he reaches one of the most startling conclusions of his fabled career.

Le meurtre de Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)

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

 When Miss Marple dines at the Bantrys the conversation always turns to murder. Whilst Dr Lloyd was in the Canary Islands, a woman drowned in the sea. To all it seems an accident, but one eyewitness says her paid companion deliberately drowned her.

The Companion - A Miss Marple Short Story

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

 Hercule Poirot is about to tuck into a very traditional English supper with his old friend Bonnington, when the habit and ritual of a lone diner sparks his interest more than the chestnut turkey. The lone diner has eaten there on Thursdays and Tuesdays for the last ten years like clockwork, but, no one at the restaurant even knows his name. However, 'Old Father Time, ' as they have fondly nicknamed him, suddenly stops coming and Poirot believes that he might have picked up that one essential clue that could shed light on a man who no one really knows. Could what Old Father Time strangely ordered as his final meal prove to be the only thing that makes this suspicious?

Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds - A Hercule Poirot Short Story

Un meurtre est annonce, qui aura lieu le vendredi 29 octobre a dix-huit heures trente a Little Paddocks." Au village de Chipping Cleghorn, tout le monde decouvre cette petite annonce dans la gazette locale en prenant son breakfast, et les dames de Little Paddocks ne sont pas les moins surprises. Tout le monde pense a une amusante "murder party" imaginee par quelque facetieux. Aussi, tout le voisinage, emoustille, rapplique-t-il a Little Paddocks et l'on attend l'heure fatidique dans la bonne humeur. A dix-huit heures trente, la lumiere s'eteint, l'assassin parait, des coups de feu eclatent... Mais c'est l'etranger, entre Dieu sait comment dans la maison, qu'on retrouve, son pistolet a la main, effondre sur le parquet. Mort...

Un meurtre sera commis le...

When the Bantry wake up to find the body of a beautiful, young stranger in their library, Dolly Bantry knows there's only one person to call: her old friend Miss Marple.Who was the young girl? What was she doing in the library? And is there a connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are discovered in an abandoned quarry?Miss Marple must solve the mystery, before tongues start to wag, and the murderer strikes again.

The Dead Man’s Mirror - A Hercule Poirot Short Story

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