Que de remous dans ce pensionnat de jeunes filles renommé qu'est Meadowbank : des professeurs y trouvent la mort dans des circonstances qui dépassent l'entendement. Le coupable est-il un sadique, ou un membre du personnel ? Les crimes sont-ils fiés à la présence d'une jeune princesse orientale ? Y a-t-il une corrélation entre eux et un certain petit paquet de grande valeur qu'on n'arrive pas à retrouver ?

Le Chat et les pigeons

Lady  Edgware ne supporte pas la contradiction, surtout lorsqu'elle vient de son bougre de mari qui l'exaspère et refuse de divorcer. Ce qui est très ennuyeux puisque, justement, Lady Edgware souhaite épouser quelqu'un d'autre. Comment faire pour se débarrasser de cet empêcheur de tourner en rond  ? Elle décide alors, pour arriver à ses fins, de faire appel au plus grand spécialiste des affaires criminelles qui soit, Hercule Poirot. Seulement, comme Poirot s'en rend vite compte, Lady Edgware a tendance à confondre tueur à gages et détective. Mais peu importe, après tout, puisque le mari a fini par se résigner. Il vient d'avoir la bonne idée de mourir. Assassiné. Contrariant, Lord Edgware  ?

Traduit de l'anglais par Pascale Guinard

Le couteau sur la nuque

Agatha Christie's 'most absorbing mystery' - her own autobiography.

 Over the three decades since her death on 12 January 1976, many of Agatha Christie's readers and reviewers have maintained that her most compelling book is probably still her least well-known. Her candid Autobiography, written mainly in the 1960s, modestly ignores the fact that Agatha had become the best-selling novelist in history and concentrates on her fascinating private life. From early childhood at the end of the 19th century, through two marriages and two World Wars, and her experiences both as a writer and on archaeological expeditions with her second husband, Max Mallowan, Agatha shares the details of her varied and sometimes complex life with real passion and openness.

An Autobiography

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

 Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.

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Murder On The Orient Express

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

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

 In one of the few Poirot short stories without Captain Hastings, the Belgian detective must face up to solving a mystery without his trusty companion.

Wasps’ Nest - A Hercule Poirot Short Story

The inspiration for A Haunting in Venice - now a major motion picture. When a Hallowe'en party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murderer.

 At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce - a hostile thirteen-year-old - boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub.

 That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the 'evil presence'. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer.

Halloween party

Après le début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Tommy et Tuppence, maintenant parents de deux enfants, se morfondent en déplorant leur non-implication dans la lutte qui est menée sur le territoire britannique contre les manœuvres de la cinquième colonne.Tommy réussit néanmoins à se faire proposer une mission : démasquer M. et N., des agents nazis de la cinquième colonne, qui se trouveraient dans une modeste pension de famille d'une station balnéaire du sud de l'Angleterre.Il est tenu de ne pas révéler la vraie teneur de sa mission à son épouse. Mais celle-ci, fine mouche, parvient à découvrir le subterfuge et à surgir là où on ne l'attendait vraiment pas...

N. ou M.?

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

 Lytcham Close, one of the oldest stately homes in England is owned by the last remaining heir and is a house ruled by his intolerable whims. Old Hubert demands complete silence when he plays selected music and dinner is timed exactly by the resounding gong, no matter to trifle with. Rushing down at the hearing of the second, or is it the first gong, Joan Ashby is about to find out that not only is dinner delayed, but, she is about to hear a sound that no one can explain. Everyone is thrown into disarray when Old Hubert never materialises and instead a new guest is announced. The new guest is Hercule Poirot himself. What unfolds is a mystery of lovers, michalmas daisies and a death that is not as it appears.

Le Chat et les pigeons

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