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: 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: 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: An adoptive son dies in prison after being convicted for the murder of his mother, but when Dr. Arthur Calgary proves the boy's innocence, the family becomes surprisingly nervous and hostile.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Publishing 2012

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Christie, Agatha

Summary: Miss Marple looks into the death of Rex Fortescue, who was poisoned while drinking a cup of tea in his office, and discovers a variety of associates and family members with motives, including a wife believed to have married for money.

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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 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: "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: 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: 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: The very exclusive Meadowbank School has never been more assured of success when the summer term begins--until their gym mistress is found murdered.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2007

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Christie, Agatha

Summary: Linnet Doyle is young, beautiful, and rich. She's the girl who has everything-including the man her best friend loves. Linnet and her new husband take a cruise on the Nile, where they meet the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot. It should be an idyllic trip, yet Poirot has a vague, uneasy feeling that something is dangerously amiss ...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Publishing 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: The tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything...until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: "I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger." Yet under the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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Christie, Agatha

Summary: A summer-themed collection of mysteries features Agatha Christie's most famous characters, including Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. The stories were originally published in the 1920s and 1930s; the Introduction was originally published in 1977.

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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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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