Les Ravenscroft : un couple très uni, une excellente situation sociale... Et pourtant ils se suicident. A voir, pense Hercule Poirot, qui flaire une sombre histoire.

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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

One Tuesday evening a group gathers at Miss Marple’s house and the conversation turns to unsolved crimes…The case of the disappearing bloodstains; the thief who committed his crime twice over; the message on the death-bed of a poisoned man which read ‘heap of fish’; the strange case of the invisible will; a spiritualist who warned that ‘Blue Geranium’ meant death…Now pit your wits against the powers of deduction of the ‘Tuesday Night Club’.

Miss Marple au Club du Mardi

Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. For here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident – the broken body of a woman was discovered on the rocks at the foot of the cliff. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies – a husband and wife – shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves back into a crime committed 15 years earlier and discovers that, when there is a distinct lack of physical evidence, it’s just as well that ‘old sins leave long shadows.'This story is part of Agatha Christie’s murder in retrospect series, a collection of stories which look at a crime several years after the fact, piecing together testimonials and witness reports to finally uncover the truth. This time we see Mrs Oliver’s goddaughter, attempting to find out the truth about her deceased parents – who killed whom?

Was it a misstep that sent a handsome stranger plummeting to his death from a cliff? Or something more sinister? Fun-loving adventurers Bobby Jones and Frances Derwent's suspicions are certainly roused--espeically since the man's dying words were so peculiar: Why didn't they ask Evans? Bobby and Frances would love to know. Unfortunately, asking the wrong people has sent the amateur sleuths running for their lives--on a wild and deadly pursuit to discover who Evans is, what it was he wasn't asked, and why the mysterious inquiry has put their own lives in mortal danger...

Pourquois Pas Evans?

This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 15 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Gervase Fen novella by Edmund Crispin that has never previously been published.

 With the Golden Age of detective fiction shining ever more brightly thanks to the recent reappearance of many forgotten crime novels, Bodies from the Library offers a rare opportunity to read lost stories from the first half of the twentieth century by some of the genre's most accomplished writers.

 This second volume is a showcase for popular figures of the Golden Age, in stories that even their most ardent fans will not be aware of. It includes uncollected and unpublished stories by acclaimed queens and kings of crime fiction, from Helen Simpson, Ethel Lina White, E. C. R. Lorac, Christianna Brand, Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, to S. S. Van Dine, Jonathan Latimer, Clayton Rawson, Cyril Alington and Antony and Peter Shaffer (writing as Peter Antony).

 This book also features two highly readable radio scripts by Margery Allingham (involving Jack the Ripper) and John Rhode, plus two full-length novellas - one from a rare magazine by Q Patrick, the other an unpublished Gervase Fen mystery by Edmund Crispin, written at the height of his career. It concludes with another remarkable discovery: 'The Locked Room' by Dorothy L. Sayers, a never-before-published case for Lord Peter Wimsey!

 Selected and introduced by Tony Medawar, who also provides fascinating pen portraits of each author, Bodies from the Library 2 is an indispensable collection for any bookshelf.

Bodies from the Library 2 - Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection

A selection of mysteries, some light-hearted, some romantic, some very deadly...

The Listerdale mystery

Tous ceux qui l'entouraient pouvaient tirer profit de la mort de Mrs Ingelthorp, riche maîtresse de la propriété de Styles : son second mari, Alfred Ingelthorp ; ses beaux-enfants, maintenus dans sa dépendance financière ; Cynthia, sa jeune protégée... Et tous auraient pu se procurer la strychnine qui l'a tuée. Mais pourquoi Hercule Poirot protège-t-il si obstinément Alfred Ingelthorp, alors que celui-ci se défend à peine contre les soupçons grandissants qui pèsent sur lui ? Patience ! Nous ne comprendrons qu'aux dernières pages le subtil jeu de stratégie qui s'est noué entre ces deux hommes, aussi redoutablement intelligents l'un que l'autre. Dès ce premier roman, publié en 1920, Agatha Christie démontre son extraordinaire habileté à nous tenir en haleine jusqu'au bout, alors même que les circonstances, les personnages, les indices nous sont parfaitement connus. Et surtout, elle campe le duo qui devait faire sa gloire : celui du petit détective belge et de son fidèle Hastings.

La Mystérieuse Affaire de Styles

Assassinée ? La femme du procureur ? Aïe ! Ça n'est jamais drôle pour un enquêteur de traîner ses godillots chez les notables d'une petite ville de province. Comble de malchance, il semble que Monsieur le procureur lui-même avait intérêt à se débarrasser de son épouse.
Parce que si tout le monde l'aimait, sa douce moitié, lui se montrait modérément enthousiaste, préférant à l'évidence les charmes de sa maîtresse. Et pour corser l'affaire, il se trouve que Monsieur le procureur est sur le point d'être nommé avocat général. Va-t-on chercher des crosses à un personnage aussi considérable ?...
Décidément, voilà une planche savonneuse à souhait !

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