It was not unusual to find the bronzed body of Arlena Stuart stretched out on a beach, face down. Only, on this occasion, she had been strangled. Ever since Arlena's arrival at the resort, Hercule Poirot had detected sexual tension in the seaside air.

Evil under the sun

Le Crime de l'Orient-Express

Chacun sait qu'Hercule Poirot est le plus grand détective de tous les temps. Un homme se suicide quelques heures après lui avoir demandé assistance ? Allons donc ! Ce serait trop facile, et le petit belge sait bien que personne ne fait appel à lui sans raison... Pour lui, rien de plus facile que de déjouer les jeux de glaces, voir au-delà du miroir et faire faillir la réalité des apparences. Le Miroir du mort, Feux d'artifice, L'invraisemblable vol : des nouvelles où le génie de la déduction d'Hercule Poirot s'en donne à cœur joie.

Le miroir du mort

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

 On a dark evening, Mr Harley Quin appears at the door of Royston Hall under the premise that his car has broken down. Once inside, he embarks upon the tragic tale of Royston Hall's former occupants, leading to a dramatic change in the perceptions of the current inhabitants - but has Mr Quin's revelation come too late?

The Coming of Mr Quin - An Agatha Christie Short Story

Cinq temoignages accablants ont fait condamner a la detention a perpetuite Caroline, la femme d'Amyas Crale, peintre renomme retrouve mort empoisonne. Seize ans plus tard, Hercule Poirot, qui ne s'est jamais satisfait du denouement de l'affaire, a l'occasion de reprendre le dossier en main. Ne s'arretant pas aux evidences, tirant parti du moindre indice, il fera eclater une incroyable verite a laquelle personne ne s'attendait."Traduit de l'anglais par Jean-Michel Alamagny""

Cinq petits cochons

French translation of Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Le Noël d'Hercule Poirot

Un meurtre annoncé dans le reflet d'un miroir ; un héritier gênant changé en matou docile ; une religieuse qui tue à distance et à volonté. Ces histoires-là auraient pu être des énigmes policières : elles en ont la construction, le suspense. Pourtant, les limiers de Scotland Yard y chercheraient en vain les indices chers à leur coeur. Ici, point de traces de pas dans la boue, d'emplois du temps truqués ou de mégots tachés de rouge à lèvres. Quiconque désire trouver des réponses devra pour cela en appeler aux esprits... A travers ces douze nouvelles, la reine du crime nous plonge dans le fantastique avec un talent pour cette veine bien souvent insoupçonné. Traductions révisées de Jean-Paul Martin

Le flambeau

An Agatha Christie mystery story. Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to ‘get rid of’ her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead. And yet the great Belgian detective couldn’t help feeling that he was being taken for a ride. After all, how could Jane have stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? And what could be her motive now that the aristocrat had finally granted her a divorce?

Le Couteau Sur La Nuque

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.

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