Assassiner une vieille dame pour lui voler trente livres, c'est d'un sordide ! Un crime aussi vulgaire ne peut intéresser l'illustre Poirot... à moins que la police ne fasse fausse route depuis le début ?

Mrs McGinty est morte

For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Helplessly, she stared out of her carriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip around a woman’s throat. The body crumpled. Then the other train drew away.But who, apart from Miss Marple, would take her story seriously? After all, there were no suspects, no other witnesses... and no corpse.

Le Train De 16h50 (Club des Masques)

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

 Boredom sets in on the rather less exciting than expected trip across the desert to Baghdad. Mr. Parker Pyne, with a nose for trouble, soon sets his sights on the case of the missing Mr. Long, the famed defaulting financier who, as the papers would have it is in South America, as entertainment. What with the chaos of everyone trying to sleep during the long journey, an important event goes unnoticed. Captain Smethurst is dead, but there is no visible wound. At a loss the company turn to Mr. Pyne to piece together scraps of overheard conversation from back at Damascus. Marooned and nervous the company decide that the truth must out.

The Gate of Baghdad - An Agatha Christie Short Story

Dans l'Orient-Express bloqué pour la neige, le fameux détective Hercule Poirot mène l'enquête. Puisque le criminel ne peut être que dans le wagon, il lui faut examiner tous les éléments : les quinze voyageurs de nationalités différentes, les douze coups de poignard, les alibis de chacun...

Le crime de l'Orient-Express

1 livre/2 romansC'est par le plus grand des hasards qu'Hercule Poirot se trouve à bord de l'Orient-Express. Alors qu'il est bloqué par la neige, on découvre, dans l'une des voitures, le corps d'un Américain sauvagement assassiné à coups de couteau. Le meurtrier se cache forcément parmi les voyageurs... Mais qui a bien pu commettre pareil crime ?En cherchant une balle de golf, Bobby découvre un individu tombé de la falaise. Quelques secondes avant de succomber, l'homme prononce ces mystérieuses paroles : "Pourquoi pas Evans ?". L'enquête conclut rapidement à un accident. Un accident, c'est vite dit. L'amie du garçon, la jeune comtesse Frankie, a son idée là dessus.

Le crime de l'orient express/Pourquoi pas evans ?

« Le train est aussi dangereux que le paquebot » a rme Hercule Poirot. Le lendemain, dans une voiture de l'Orient-Express bloqué par les neiges yougoslaves, on découvre le cadavre d'un américain lardé de douze coups de couteau. L'assassin n'a pu venir de l'extérieur : voici donc un huis clos, le plus fameux, peut-être, de toute la littérature policière. Pour mener son enquête, le petit détective belge a le choix entre une princesse russe, une Américaine fantasque, le secrétaire de la victime, un couple de Hongrois distingués, l'inévitable colonel de retour des Indes, les domestiques de tout ce beau monde et le contrôleur du train.

Le Crime de l'Orient-Express

Mystery and suspense surround a seance in a snowbound house on the edge of Dartmoor, where the prediction of a grisly murder is only the precursor to an ingenious deadly crime and one of Agatha Christie's most gripping thrillers.

 In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a small table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: 'Captain Trevelyan. dead. murder.'

 Is this black magic or simply a macabre joke? The only way to be certain is to locate Captain Trevelyan. Unfortunately, his home is six miles away and, with snow drifts blocking the roads, someone will have to make the journey on foot.

The Sittaford Mystery

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

 Hercule Poirot is about to tuck into a very traditional English supper with his old friend Bonnington, when the habit and ritual of a lone diner sparks his interest more than the chestnut turkey. The lone diner has eaten there on Thursdays and Tuesdays for the last ten years like clockwork, but, no one at the restaurant even knows his name. However, 'Old Father Time, ' as they have fondly nicknamed him, suddenly stops coming and Poirot believes that he might have picked up that one essential clue that could shed light on a man who no one really knows. Could what Old Father Time strangely ordered as his final meal prove to be the only thing that makes this suspicious?

Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds - A Hercule Poirot Short Story

It's seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is the connection with another dead girl, whose remains are discovered in an abandoned quarry? The Bantrys invite Miss Marple to solve the mystery.

Mrs McGinty est morte

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