By the pricking of thumbs

Thomas Betterton s'est mystérieusement évaporé et les services secrets britanniques s'émeuvent car M.  Betterton est un savant atomiste réputé. Une question se pose alors : a-t-il été enlevé ou est-il passé volontairement au service d'une puissance étrangère ? On soupçonne fortement Mme Betterton, bien qu'elle affirme ne rien savoir. Elle suit alors sa logique et tente de fuir en douce. Hélas ! Elle périt dans un accident d'avion.
Courageusement, Hilary usurpe l'identité de l'épouse défunte dans l'espoir d'être contactée par ceux qui pourraient la conduire vers le savant disparu...

Traduction révisée de Janine Lévy

Destination inconnue

It was an open and shut case. All the evidence said Caroline Crale poisoned her philandering husband, a brilliant painter. She was quickly and easily convicted and sentenced to life in prison.  Now, sixteen years later, in a posthumous letter, Mrs. Crale has assured her grown daughter that she was innocent. But instead of setting the young woman's mind at ease, the letter only raises disquieting questions. Did Caroline indeed write the truth? And if she didn't kill her husband, who did? To find out, the Crale’s daughter asks Hercule Poirot to reopen the case. His investigation takes him deep into the conflicting memories and motivations of the five other people who were with the Crales on the fatal day. With his keen understanding of human psychology, he manages to discover the surprising truth behind the artist's death.

Cinq petits cochons

Il se passe quelque chose d'anormal. Les dix personnes conviees sur l'ile du Negre en ont la certitude. Pourquoi leur hote est-il absent? Soudain, une voix s'eleve, accusant d'un crime chaque invite. Commence alors une ronde mortelle, rythmee par les couplets d'une etrange comptine...

Dix petits nègres

The abduction of a Prime Minister ... the disappearance of a banker ... a phone call from a dying man ... and, finally, the mystery of the missing will. What links these fascinating cases? Only the deductive powers of Hercule Poirot. This title is part of a new series of Hercule Poirot editions.

Poirot investigates

Elle est bien belle, la concubine qu'Imhotep a ramenée de son voyage dans le Nord. Mais elle n'est qu'une étrangère, et on ne l'aime pas. D'ailleurs, depuis qu'elle a ensorcelé le maître, rien ne va plus au domaine. Et ce démon va finir par décider de tout si l'on n'y prend pas garde. Il faut agir avant qu'il ne soit trop tard.
Si elle venait à disparaître, le cœur d'Imhotep retournerait à ses fils. Il suffirait d'écraser le serpent, et tout redeviendrait comme avant.
Est-ce bien certain ? Le mal vient-il seulement de l'étrangère ? On dirait qu'un poison intérieur ronge aussi la maison du maître...

La Mort N'Est Pas Une Fin

For a moment the two trains were side by side. In that moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder as she stared out of her window. But who, apart from Miss Marple, would take her story seriously? There were no suspects, no other witnesses - and no corpse.

4:50 from paddington

This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 16 tales by masters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Agatha Christie crime story that has not been seen since 1922.

 At a time when crime and thriller writing has once again overtaken the sales of general and literary fiction, Bodies from the Library unearths lost stories from the Golden Age, that period between the World Wars when detective fiction captured the public's imagination and saw the emergence of some of the world's cleverest and most popular storytellers.

 This anthology brings together 16 forgotten tales that have either been published only once before - perhaps in a newspaper or rare magazine - or have never before appeared in print. From a previously unpublished 1917 script featuring Ernest Bramah's blind detective Max Carrados, to early 1950s crime stories written for London's Evening Standard by Cyril Hare, Freeman Wills Crofts and A. A. Milne, it spans five decades of writing by masters of the Golden Age.

 Most anticipated of all are the contributions by women writers: the first detective story by Georgette Heyer, unseen since 1923; an unpublished story by Christianna Brand, creator of Nanny McPhee; and a dark tale by Agatha Christie published only in an Australian journal in 1922 during her 'Grand Tour' of the British Empire.

 With other stories by Detection Club stalwarts Anthony Berkeley, H. C. Bailey, J. J. Connington, John Rhode and Nicholas Blake, plus Vincent Cornier, Leo Bruce, Roy Vickers and Arthur Upfield, this essential collection harks back to a time before forensic science - when murder was a complex business.

By the pricking of thumbs

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