Christie, Agatha

Summary: They are formidable enemies in their own rights: a French scientist, an American millionaire, a brilliant Chinese gentleman, and a master of disguise. But together they are the Big Four, a partnership with one simple goal, murder. Hercule Poirot has never come up against an opponent so vicious, or so deadly.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1986

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Christie, Agatha

Summary: Hercule Poirot has already decided to retire, but first he will take on twelve remarkable cases in the contemporary world that correspond to the twelve labours of Hercules.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1984

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Christie, Agatha

Summary: At the request of archaeologist Dr. Eric Leidner, Amy Leatheran has accepted a position as companion to his wife, Louise, a woman prone to nervous terrors. What is the young nurse to make of Mrs. Leidner's bizarre stories of her first husband, a dead German spy, who has returned in a rage to destroy her new marriage? Stories of threats and dreadful warnings? Yet it's more than a flight of fancy...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1985

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Christie, Agatha

Summary: Poirot struggles to make sense of a bizarre assortment of clues strewn halfway around the globe by a cunning murderer--Novelist.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1985

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Christie, Agatha

Contents: The adventure of the Western star -- The tragedy at Marsdon Manor -- The adventure of the cheap flat -- The mystery of Hunter's Lodge -- A 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 -- The adventure of the Italian nobleman -- The case of the missing will --...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2021

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Christie, Agatha

Summary: Thirteen guests gather for drinks at actor Charles Cartwright?s seaside escape. Benign Reverend Babbington, who rarely imbibes, takes one sip of his beverage and keels over dead. Soon after Sir Bartholomew Strange convenes the same party and meets his own end after swallowing port. One death could be natural, but two mean murder. Hercule Poirot, who was present at both affairs, stages a third...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011

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Christie, Agatha

Summary: As instructed, stenographer Shelia Webb let herself into the house at 19 Wilbraham Cresent. It was then that she made a grisly discovery: the body of a dead man sprawled across the living room floor. What intrigued Poirot about the case was the time factor. Although in a state of shock, Shelia clearly remembered having heard a cuckoo clock strike three o'clock. Yet, the four other clocks in the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2016

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Christie, Agatha

Summary: "How did a woman holding a pistol in her right hand manage to shoot herself in the left temple? What was the link between a ghost sighting and the disappearance of top secret military plans? How did the bullet that killed Sir Gervase shatter a mirror in another part of the room? And should the beautiful Valentine Chantry flee for her life from the holiday island of Rhodes? Hercule Poirot is...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2011

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Christie, Agatha

Summary: Agatha Christie's seasonal Poirot and Marple short story collection, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. First came a sinister warning to Poirot t to eat any plum pudding ... then the discovery of a corpse in a chest ... next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder ... the strange case of the dead man who...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2016

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Christie, Agatha

Summary: Mr. Shaitana is famous as a flamboyant party host. When he boasts to Hercule Poirot that he considers murder an art form, the detective has some reservations about accepting a party invitation to view Shaitana's 'private collection.' Three of the other players turn out to be Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard; Mrs. Ariadne Oliver, famed writer of detective stories; Col. Race of His...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011

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Christie, Agatha

Summary: "At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce--a hostile thirteen-year-old--boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the 'evil presence.' But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a doubler murderer ..."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2011

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Christie, Agatha

Summary: Hercule Poirot becomes entangled in a nasty web of family secrets when he comes across a fresh murder at an English country manor.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2016

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Christie, Agatha

Summary: Hercule Poirot is summoned when a young woman is accused of murdering her wealthy aunt's house companion--Novelist.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1984

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Christie, Agatha

Summary: "From seat No. 9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No. 13, sat a countess with a poorly concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No. 8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2016

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Christie, Agatha

Summary: At a dinner party, Lady Edgware tells Hercule Poirot that she wished her husband were dead so that she could marry the Duke of Merton, and a day later Lord Edgware is found murdered.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2011

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Christie, Agatha

Summary: Poirot receives Emily Arundell's request for help a month too late, but is determined to solve the mystery of her death

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1991

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Summary: Mystery of the blue train: When the daughter of an oil magnate is found dead on the famous Blue Train to the French Riviera, Poirot must investigate the past to reveal the killer.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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Summary: Agatha Christie's famous detective investigates a murder on a wealthy man's estate during the holiday season, a series of thefts at a hostel, a case of abduction and murder in France, and a murder that can only be solved by communicating with a single, silent witness.

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Publisher / Publication Date: ITV Studios Home Entertainment 2012

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Summary: Elephants can remember: "While Poirot investigates a famed psychiatrist's murder, crime novelist Ariadne Oliver looks into a couple's mysterious death." -- The Big Four: "With the world on the brink of war, Poirot finds himself drawn into a case marked by political intrigue and international connections. -- Dead man's folly: "Fiction turns to fact when a young woman is killed at a "murder hunt"...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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