A classic novel of desire and jealousy.

 Ann Prentice falls in love with Richard Cauldfield and hopes for new happiness. Her only child, Sarah, cannot contemplate the idea of her mother marrying again and wrecks any chance of her remarriage. Resentment and jealousy corrode their relationship as each seeks relief in different directions. Are mother and daughter destined to be enemies for life or will their underlying love for each other finally win through?

 Famous for her ingenious crime books and plays, Agatha Christie also wrote about crimes of the heart, six bittersweet and very personal novels, as compelling and memorable as the best of her work.

A Daughter's a Daughter

Trop belle, trop légère, trop riche Rosemary ! Quel désespoir secret a conduit au suicide cette femme environnée d'admirateurs et d'amants, volant de cocktails en parties de bridge et de dîners en bals, sous l'oeil résigné de George, son mari plus âgé ? Nul ne le sait. Mais la question commence à se poser différemment le jour où ce dernier est informé par des lettres anonymes qu'on a assassiné son épouse. Cependant, le lecteur découvre, une à une, les raisons qui auraient pu pousser diverses personnes de l'entourage de Rosemary à vouloir se débarrasser d'elle. Toutes se trouvaient là le soir tragique où elle a bu une coupe de champagne additionnée de cyanure. Un nouveau dîner rassemblant les mêmes convives permettra-t-il, comme George l'espère, de confondre le coupable ? Peut-être... À condition qu'une nouvelle mort ne vienne pas compliquer l'affaire.

Meurtre au champagne

Le Vallon (1946) : Lady Angkatell invite quelques amis à passer le week-end dans sa somptueuse propriété du Vallon. Quand on retrouve le corps du docteur John Christow flottant à la surface de la piscine et, sur le bord, sa femme, prostrée, tenant un revolver à la main, tous les convives sont sous le choc !
Le Crime d'Halloween (1969) : Le 31 octobre, c'est la fête du potiron ! Pour marquer l'événement, la romancière Mrs Drake organise une soirée pour les enfants du village. « Un jour, j'ai assisté à un meurtre », se vante Joyce, une fillette à la langue bien pendue. Bien sûr, personne ne la prend au sérieux. Pourtant, c'est bien son cadavre qui est retrouvé dans la bibliothèque. Pour Hercule Poirot, ces affaires relèvent de la routine. Mais une trop évidente simplicité peut se révéler plus complexe qu'il n'y paraît. Le célèbre détective trouve ici des adversaires à sa mesure.

Poirot Halloween ; le vallon ; le crime d'Halloween

The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything - until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: 'I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.' Yet in this exotic setting, nothing is ever quite what it seems...

Mort Sur Le Nil: (Death On The Nile)

M. Shaitana est un bien étrange personnage : excentrique collectionneur à l'air méphistophélique, il met toujours un point d'honneur à chercher l'excellence, que ce soit pour acheter une tabatière ou pour débusquer le parfait assassin. Et pour le prouver au plus célèbre détective belge, il convie lors d'une soirée huit hôtes triés sur le volet : quatre spécialistes du crime, et quatre criminels qui seraient - d'après lui- assez habiles pour ne s'être jamais fait pincer. Mais quand on entre dans la cage du tigre, celui-ci peut bondir et, au cours de la soirée, le rictus démoniaque de M. Shaitana s'effacera définitivement. C'est une erreur de laisser traîner des armes potentielles en présence d'aussi éminents spécialistes ! Mêlant humour noir et stupeur, la Reine du crime s'amuse une fois encore à nous entraîner de fausses pistes en pièges dans cette enquête - probablement la plus complexe - d'Hercule Poirot.

Cartes sur table

Ces douze nouvelles n'appartiennent pas à proprement parler à la littérature policière, mais toutes traitent avec brio de situations étranges ou sont conçues autour d'un meurtre. Chacune, dans sa brièveté, est une comédie complète ou un drame et aucune ne ressemble aux autres, sinon que la plupart, quel que soit le mystère qu'elles distillent, se terminent par un éclat de rire.

Le mystère de Listerdale

Tommy Beresford and Prudence 'Tuppence' Cowley are young, in love… and flat broke. Just after Great War, there are few jobs available and the couple are desperately short of money. Restless for excitement, they decide to embark on a daring business scheme: Young Adventurers Ltd.—"willing to do anything, go anywhere." Hiring themselves out proves to be a smart move for the couple. In their first assignment for the mysterious Mr. Whittingtont, all Tuppence has to do in their first job is take an all-expense paid trip to Paris and pose as an American named Jane Finn. But with the assignment comes a bribe to keep quiet, a threat to her life, and the disappearance of her new employer. Now their newest job are playing detective.Where is the real Jane Finn? The mere mention of her name produces a very strange reaction all over London. So strange, in fact, that they decided to find this mysterious missing lady. She has been missing for five years. And neither her body nor the secret documents she was carrying have ever been found. Now post-war England's economic recovery depends on finding her and getting the papers back. But he two young working undercover for the British ministry know only that her name and the only photo of her is in the hands of her rich American cousin. It isn’t long before they find themselves plunged into more danger than they ever could have imagined—a danger that could put an abrupt end to their business… and their lives.

Monsieur Brown

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

 'One looks for humanity in these matters'

 Pretty Lily Margrave, smart little black hat pinned to her golden hair, is not convinced Hercule Poirot is needed in the matter of Sir Atwell's murder at all. At the request of her employer, the emphatic Lady Atwell, she has had to recount the precise details of what happened that evening, ten days ago in the Tower room even though the victim's nephew is incarcerated and charged with the murder. But, Lady Atwell's persistent bee in her bonnet drives Poirot up to the great house, Mon Repos, to see if he can look beyond the cold facts presented by Miss Margrave and look for the humanity in the matter. Poirot soon takes up residence in Mon Repos, ensconcing himself in the household and all its nooks and crannies. However, whilst at first the family are struck by his ardent endeavour to find out what befell Sir Atwell in the Tower room, their disquiet at having a 'ferreting little spy' going through their rooms becomes too much for some to bare. With his signature ingenuity, a scrap of material and the contents of a tiny box lead the detective to uncover who is behind this violent act.

The Under Dog - A Hercule Poirot Short Story

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.

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