An elderly spinster has been poisoned in her country home. Everyone blamed Emily’s accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her. On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously he didn’t receive the letter until June 28th… by which time Emily was already dead.

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

 Mr. Satterthwaite and Colonel Melrose are comfortably ensconced in the Colonel's study temperately listening to each other's differing passions when the phone suddenly interrupts them. Someone has been murdered and the Colonel, the county chief constable, is going to let Satterthwaite accompany him to the scene of the crime. But, such differing fellows have, as imagined, rather opposing outlooks on why Sir James Dwighton has been bashed over the head with a blunt instrument. But when Mr. Quin appears, Satterthwaite is delighted as ever and soon regales him with his romantic impression of the facts at hand. In the ancient house of Alderly the red haired beauty Laura Dwighton and the couple's guest, the very attractive Mr Paul Delangua have, rumour has it, engaged in an illicit affair and he has been thrown out by the disgruntled Sir James. But the facts of the murder all seem to add up too nicely and what's more everyone is confessing to it.

The Love Detectives - An Agatha Christie Short Story

La riche et séduisante Linnet Ridgeway part en Égypte en voyage de noces avec son mari Mr Doyle. Rejoints par des amis et Hercule Poirot, le séjour semble s'annoncer sous les meilleurs auspices. Jusqu'au moment où Linnet est retrouvée assassinée. Les crimes mystérieux se succèdent et il faudra toute la perspicacité du célèbre détective pour confondre le coupable...

Mort sur le Nil

Une bande d'amis passe le week-end a la campagne. L'un d'eux a les plus grandes difficultes a se reveiller le matin et ses compagnons decident de lui jouer un tour. Ils placent huit reveils autour de sa chambre. Mais le lendemain le jeune homme n'apparait toujours pas au petit dejeuner: il est retrouve mort dans son lit et des huit reveils, il n'en reste que sept...Les enqueteurs feront bientot un lien avec le celebre night club de la region, Les sept cadrans, et decouvriront qu'il est le quartier general d'une bien etrange societe secrete."Traduit de l'anglais par Alexis Champon""

Les sept cadrans

Bien sûr, la retraite a ses charmes… Cependant, Hercule Poirot ne peut s’empêcher, de temps à autre, de reprendre du service, à condition, bien sûr, qu’il s’agisse d’une affaire hors du commun. Et quelque chose lui dit que cette curieuse lettre signée A.B.C. risque de stimuler ses petites cellules grises…

A.B.C. contre Poirot

Les Quatre (1927): Un inconnu en etat de choc debarque chez Hercule Poirot, griffonne le chiffre 4 puis meurt, assassine. Notre detective belge decouvre vite qu'il a affaire a de grands criminels, un quatuor dont le but est de s'assurer la domination du monde. Parmi eux, une femme dont la secretaire ressemble fort a une vieille connaissance de Poirot: la comtesse Vera Rossakoff.Allo Hercule Poirot (1971): Un banquier londonien qui se volatilise, des bijoux qui disparaissent du coffre d'un collectionneur, un grand malade qui tente d'organiser son suicide pour que son rival soit accuse de crime... Sans oublier une comtesse russe que Poirot, admiratif, laisse filer. Six nouvelles et six coups de maitre ! Seigneur dieu, quelle femme ! Hercule Poirot, si pudique, si discret sur sa vie privee, ne semble pas totalement insensible au charme feminin. Surtout quand il prend les traits de la belle et fantasque Vera Rossakoff.

Poirot in love: Les quatre / Allô, Hercule Poirot

All 51 Hercule Poirot short stories presented in chonological order in a single volume - plus a bonus story not seen for more than 70 years.

 'My name is Hercule Poirot and I am probably the greatest detective in the world.'

 The dapper, moustache-twirling little Belgian with the egg-shaped head, curious mannerisms and inordinate respect for his own 'little grey cells' has solved some of the most puzzling crimes of the century. Appearing in Agatha Christie's very first novel in 1920 and her very last in 1975, Hercule Poirot became the most celebrated detective since Sherlock Holmes, appearing in 33 novels, a play, and these 51 short stories.

 Arranged in their original publication order, these short stories provide a feast for hardened Agatha Christie addicts as well as those who have grown to love the detective through his many film and television appearances.

 This edition now also includes Poirot and the Regatta Mystery, an early version of an Agatha Christie story not published since 1936!

Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2).

Each reader includes:

- A CD with a reading of the adapted story.
- Helpful notes on characters.
- Cultural and historical notes relevant to the plot.
- A glossary of the more difficult words.

Hercule Poirot is travelling from France to England by plane. During the journey a passenger is murdered.

Someone on the flight is guilty of the crime - but who could have a motive for killing an elderly lady? And how is it possible that no one saw it happen?

Death in the clouds

Cinq témoignages accablants ont fait condamner à la détention perpétuelle Caroline, la femme de Amyas Crale, peintre renommé, mort empoisonné.  Seize ans plus tard, Hercule Poirot prend l'affaire en main. Ne s'arrêtant pas aux évidences, tirant parti du moindre indice, il fait éclater une vérité à laquelle personne ne s'attendait.

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