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

 Locked out of her apartment, a woman tries to gain entry from the flat downstairs - where she discovers a dead body. Fortunately, a Belgian detective is renting a flat in the same building.

The Third-Floor Flat - A Hercule Poirot Short Story

Lady Angkatell, intrigued by the criminal mind, has invited Hercule Poirot to her estate for a weekend house party. The Belgian detective's arrival at the Hollow is met with an elaborate tableau staged for his amusement: a doctor lies in a puddle of red paint, his timid wife stands over his body with a gun while the other guests look suitably shocked. But this is no charade. The paint is blood and the corpse real!

Le Vallon

Les sept cadrans / Le crime est notre affaire

La plaisanterie a mal tourné ! De la petite bande de jeunes gens invités à la campagne, Gerry Wade est toujours le dernier à descendre pour le breakfast et les autres décident de le réveiller en fanfare avec huit pendulettes achetées au bazar du village... Mais le lendemain à midi, Gerry dort encore... De son dernier sommeil : on l'a assassiné avec une forte dose de chloral. Dans la chambre, on ne retrouvera que sept des huit réveils déposés sur le lit. Le huitième ? Il a été jeté par la fenêtre...

Les Sept Cadrans

Victoria Jones, tout juste viree de son job, pouvait-elle imaginer ou allait l'entrainer sa rencontre dans un square de Londres avec le seduisant Edward ? Le jeune homme, recemment demobilise, est bien content d'avoir trouve un emploi aupres du Dr Rathbone, qui vient d'ouvrir un genre de centre culturel a Bagdad. Quelle deception pour Victoria, il etait si charmant...Comme rien ne la retient - sinon le manque d'argent -, elle decide d'aller le rejoindre a Bagdad ! Aventureuse, affabulatrice, douee de tous les culots, Victoria parviendra a ses fins, mais une fois sur place, ce n'est pas Romeo et Juliette qui se joue. Le centre culturel ou travaille Edward reserve bien des surprises et tous les espions d'Europe semblent s'etre donne rendez-vous a l'hotel Tio...Traduit de l'anglais par Marie-Caroline Aubert

Rendez-Vous à Bagdad

A middle-aged diplomat is accosted in an airport lounge and his identity stolen.

 Sir Stafford Nye's journey home from Malaya to London takes an unexpected twist in the passnger loungs at Frankfurt - a young woman confides in him that someone is trying to kill her.

 Yet their paths are to cross again and again - and each time the mystery woman is introduced as a different person. Equally at home in any guise in any society she draws Sir Stafford into a game of political intrigue more dangerous than he could possibly imagine.

 In an arena where no-one can be sure of anyone, Nye must do battle with a well-armed, well-financed, well-trained - and invisble - enemy.

Passenger to Frankfurt

Le celebre detective belge d'Agatha Christie a resolu les affaires les plus mysterieuses a l'aide de ses petites cellules grises . Decouvrez, a travers ses propres mots, l'homme qui se cache derriere sa fameuse moustache, et la liberte de la Reine du Crime qui l'a invente !Cette edition inclut un texte inedit d'Agatha Christie sur la relation d'amour / haine qu'elle a tissee avec le personnage d'Hercule Poirot.."

Les Petites cellules grises

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

 Joyce Lempiere tells the Tuesday Night Club of an incident that occurred five years ago when she was vacationing at a small inn on the Cornish coast. She was painting a picture of the front of the inn, including details of wet bathing suits drying on the balcony of Denis and Margery Dacre, when she realised she had included blood stains on the pavement. A few days later Margery is found having drowned and the Club are called to solve the mystery.

The Blood-Stained Pavement - A Miss Marple Short Story

In this startling historical mystery, unique in the author's canon, Agatha Christie investigates a deadly mystery at the heart of a dissonant family in ancient Egypt. Imhotep, wealthy landowner and priest of Thebes, has outraged his sons and daughters by bringing a beautiful concubine into their fold. And the manipulative Nofret has already set about a plan to usurp her rivals' rightful legacies. When her lifeless body is discovered at the foot of a cliff, Imhotep's own flesh and blood become the apparent conspirators in her shocking murder. But vengeance and greed may not be the only motives...

The Third-Floor Flat - A Hercule Poirot Short Story

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