Agatha Christie
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"The Secret Adversary" by Agatha Christie. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
The Greatest Murder Mysteries - Agatha Christie Edition
This eBook edition of «The Greatest Murder Mysteries – Agatha Christie Edition» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.Table of Contents: The Mysterious Affair at Styles The Secret Adversary The Murder on the Links The Affair at the Victory Ball The Curious Disappearance of the Opalsen Pearls (The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan) The Adventure of the King of Clubs The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim The Mystery of the Plymouth Express The Adventure of «The Western Star» The Tragedy at Marsden Manor The Kidnapped Prime Minister The Million Dollar Bond Robbery The Adventure of the Cheap Flat The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge The Clue of the Chocolate Box The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb The Case of the Veiled Lady The Kidnapping of Johnnie Waverly The Market Basing Mystery The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman The Case of the Missing Will The Submarine Plans (The Incredible Theft) The Adventure of the Clapham Cook The Lost Mine The Cornish Mystery The Double Clue The Lemesurier Inheritance The Man in the Brown Suit
The Murder on the Links (British Mystery Classic)
Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings travel to Merlinville-sur-Mer, France, to meet Paul Renauld, who has requested their help. Upon arriving at his home, the Villa Genevieve, local police greet them with news that he has been found dead that morning. Renauld had been stabbed in the back with a letter opener and left in a newly dug grave adjacent to a local golf course. His wife, Eloise Renauld, claims masked men broke into the villa at 2 am, tied her up, and took her husband away with them. Upon inspecting his body, Eloise collapses with grief at seeing her dead husband. Monsieur Giraud of the Sûreté leads the police investigation, and resents Poirot's involvement; Monsieur Hautet, the Examining Magistrate, is more open to sharing key information with him.
Hercule Poirots casebook
Poirot and Marple are Christie's most well-known detectives, with the two featured in dozens of novels and short stories. Poirot made the most appearances in Christie's work in titles that included Ackroyd, The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928) and Death in the Clouds (1935). Miss Marple has been featured in books like The Moving Finger (1942) and A Pocket Full of Rye (1953), and been played on screen by actresses like Angela Lansbury, Helen Hayes and Geraldine McEwan. Other notable Christie characters include Tuppence and Tommy Beresford, Colonel Race, Parker Pyne and Ariadne Oliver.
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POIROT INVESTIGATES The Adventure of 'The Western Star The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor The Adventure of the Cheap Flat The Mystery of Hunters Lodge The Million Dollar Bond Robbery The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan The Kidnapped Prime Minister The Disappearance of Mr- Davenheim This page contains the following errors: Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error. The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman The Case of the Missing Will The Veiled Lady The Lost Mine The Chocolate Box DEAD MEN'S MIRROR The Incredible Theft Murder in the Mews Triangle at Rhodes THE REGATTA MYSTERY The Mystery of the Bagdad Chest How Does Your Garden Grow? Yellow Iris This page contains the following errors: Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error. The Dream Problem at Sea THE LABORS OF HERCULE Foreword The Nemean Lion The Lernean Hydra The Arcadian Deer The Augean Stables The Stymphalean Birds The Cretan Bull The Horses of Diomedes The Girdle of Hyppolita The Flock of Geryon The Apples of the Hesperides The Capture of Cerberus THREE BLIND MICE The Third-Floor Flat The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly Four-and -Twenty Blackbirds The Under Dog The Under Dog The Plymouth Express The Affair at the Victory Ball The Market Basing Mystery The Lemesurier Inheritance The Cornish Mystery The King of Clubs The Adventure of the Clapham Cook DOUBLE SIN Double Sin Wasps Nest The Double Clue
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
"The Mysterious Affair at Styles" by Agatha Christie. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
The Man in the Brown Suit (Musaicum Vintage Mysteries)
Nadina, a dancer in Paris, receives a visit from Count Sergius Paulovitch. Both are in the service of «the Colonel», an international agent provocateur and criminal. «The Colonel» is retiring, leaving his agents high and dry. Nadina has a plan to blackmail the Colonel. Anne Beddingfeld is an orphan after the sudden death of her archaeologist father. Longing for adventure, she jumps at the chance live in London. Returning from an unsuccessful job interview, Anne is at Hyde Park Corner tube station when a man falls onto the live track, dying instantly. A doctor examines the man, pronounces him dead, and leaves. Anne picks up the note he dropped, which reads «17.1 22 Kilmorden Castle». The inquest of L B Carton brings a verdict of accidental death. Carton carried a house agent's order to view Mill House in Marlow, and the next day the newspapers report that a dead woman has been found there, strangled. The house belongs to Sir Eustace Pedler MP. A young man in a brown suit is identified as a suspect, having entered the house soon after the dead woman.
The Secret of Chimneys
At the request of George Lomax, Lord Caterham reluctantly agrees to host a weekend party at his home, Chimneys. A murder occurs in the house, beginning a week of fast-paced events with police among the guests…
The Secret of Chimneys, by master-author Agatha Christie, introduces the much-loved characters of Superintendent Battle and Lady Eileen «Bundle» Brent.
Essential Novelists - Agatha Christie
Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.
For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Agatha Christie which are The Mysterious Affair at Styles and The Murder on the Links.
Agatha Christie, was a British writer who acted as a novelist, short story writer, dramaturge and poet. She stood out in the subgenre of detective novels, having popularly won the nicknames «Queen of Crime», «Duchess of Death» and «Mistress of Mystery». According to the Guinness Book, Christie is the most successful novelist in the history of world popular literature in total number of books sold, whose total numbers are only behind the works sold by William Shakespeare and the Bible.
Novels selected for this book: The Mysterious Affair at Styles; The Murder on the Links.
This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.
Lauter reizende alte Damen
Schreckliche Gerüchte stören die Beschaulichkeit des Altenheims, in dem Tommy Beresfords Tante Ada lebt. Spätestens als eine der alten Damen spurlos verschwindet, glauben Tommy und Tuppence nicht mehr an bloße „Schauermärchen“. Und tatsächlich sind die beiden bald einem lange gesuchten, eiskalten Mörder auf der Spur, was für Tuppence sehr gefährlich wird… Der dritte Fall für Tommy und Tuppence – „genial und fesselnd“ (The Guardian)!