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's vacation in the Holy Land is interrupted by death in Petra, where the lifeless body of Mrs. Boynton, a detestable English woman who cowed her family and strangers alike, is found atop the rose red cliffs. Though her family claims her heart failure was a natural event, the tiny puncture mark on her wrist is a clear sign of the fatal injection that really killed her.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2007

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Christie, Agatha

Summary: Detective Hercule Poirot is on a journey to Egypt, where the tranquility of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that a stylish young woman has been shot.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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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: Everyone thinks it's a charming joke when the ad appears in the St. Mary Mead Gazette announcing an upcoming murder at Little Paddocks. But it's no joke when someone turns up dead. To listeners' delight, Miss Marple becomes involved, and the spinster with the china-blue eyes proves herself once again to be a gifted detective.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2006

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Christie, Agatha

Summary: Tommy's Aunt Ada had died peacefully at Sunny Ridge, a home for elderly ladies. Then her friend, Mrs. Lancaster, vanished suddenly in the care of somewhat mysterious relatives. It could have been a natural series of events, as Tommy suggested. But Tuppence had her doubts, and she set out to justify them.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1984

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Christie, Agatha

Summary: Eleven stories deal with a murder trial, a premonition of death, a ghostly possession, a mysterious cry for help, a poisoning, and a wealthy aunt's will.

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow/HarperCollins 2012

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Christie, Agatha

Summary: "M-U-R-D-E-R. It began as an innocent parlor game intended to while away the hours on a bitter winter night. But the message that appeared before the amateur occultists at the snowbound Sittaford House was spelled out as loud and clear as a scream. Of course, the notion that they had foretold doom was pure bunk. Wasn't it? And the discovery of a corpse was pure coincidence. Wasn't it? If...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1984

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Christie, Agatha

Summary: Hercule Poirot undertakes a sixteen-year-old murder case in which a woman apparently poisoned her adulterous husband. Because her husband-to-be is growing wearily disenchanted with her family's history, the daughter of the accused murderer, Carla Lemarchant, desperately tries to clear her mother's name. As Poirot conducts his investigation, he rounds up five other possible suspects: Philip...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013

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Christie, Agatha

Summary: Ever since Arlena's arrival the air had been thick with sexual tension. Each of the guests had a motive to kill her, including Arlena's new husband. But Hercule Poirot suspects that this apparent crime of passion? conceals something much more evil.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Christie, Agatha

Summary: Hercule Poirot's relaxing holiday on the Cornish coast takes an unexpected turn when he meets young and beautiful Nick Buckley. Though Nick tries to shrug off the bullet that barely misses her as an accident, just one more event in her recent chain of bad luck, Poirot is convinced she needs his protection. After a fatal attack, apparently aimed at Nick but gone awry, Poirot spirits her away to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dodd, Mead 1985

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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: 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

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ulverscroft 1992

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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: In this ingenious puzzler -- the last novel Agatha Christie ever wrote -- Tommy and Tuppence Beresford discover a clue to a killer's identity within the pages of a children's storybook.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dodd, Mead 1973

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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: Miss Marple sets out to solve the mysteries at an unusual college for delinquents, now being run by her friend's third husband.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1985

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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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Christie, Agatha

Summary: Captain Hastings recounts 18 of Poirot's early cases from the days before he was famous! Hercule Poirot delighted in telling people that he was probably the best detective in the world. So turning back the clock to trace eighteen of the cases which helped establish his professional reputation was always going to be a fascinating experience. With his career still in its formative years, the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishing 2018

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