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Chiaverini, Jennifer. Christie, Agatha Harris, C. S. Slaughter, Karin Stilton, TheaChristie, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRChristie, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRChristie, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRChristie, 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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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC CHRChristie, 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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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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRChristie, Agatha
Summary: A grand treasure for fans of the grande dame of mystery, The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories brings together nine rare and brilliant Christie tales of murder and detection that span nearly half a century of her storytelling genius.In The Mystery of the Spanish Chest, Hercule Poirot unravels the psychological conundrums that motivate a killer. . . . In The Actress, a great star's shady past...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1997
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Summary: Flighty but good-hearted Victoria Jones craves love, intrigue, and adventure. She strikes gold in Edward, a handsome and mysterious traveler whom she's vowed to follow to the ends of the earth. Yet no whirlwind affair can prepare Victoria for what unfolds once she lands in Baghdad. Not a day in Edward's shadow, and she hears whispered warnings of danger and witnesses the murder of a secret...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1985
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Summary: A simple case of theft turns into a triple murder. The girl was dead, clearly a case of suicide. "Or was it suicide," Hercule Poirot mused. Applying his shrewd mind to the disorderly facts and events surrounding the senseless thefts and the subsequent death of the girl, Poirot realized that the suicide really had been murder. Was it part of a larger scheme? Before he could act, there was a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1984
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Summary: In one of London's most elegant shops, a decorative doll in green velvet adopts some rather human, and sinister, traits....A country gentleman is questioned about a murder that has yet to be committed....In summoning spirits, a medium is drawn closer to the world of the dead than she ever imagined possible....In a small country church, a dying man's last word, sanctuary, becomes both an elegy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dodd, Mead & Company 1961
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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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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: Detective Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation takes on the case of a girl who has been savagely murdered in one of Atlanta's most desirable neighborhoods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLAHarris, C. S.
Summary: When the handsome but dissolute young gentleman Lord Ashworth is found brutally murdered, Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is called in by Bow Street magistrate Sir Henry Lovejoy to help catch the killer. Just seven months before, Sebastian had suspected Ashworth of aiding one of his longtime friends and companions in the kidnapping and murder of a string of vulnerable street children. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARStilton, Thea
Summary: Taking a road trip to San Jose along Route 66 while stopping in Chicago, St. Louis, and other iconic cities, the Thea Sisters are dismayed to learn that an unknown saboteur has wiped a special video game project off of a programmer friend's computer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2021
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Summary: In 1930, when Sylvia Bergstrom Compson was only a child, her mother passed away. Decades later, when several of her mother's hand-stitched heirloom quilts vanish, Sylvia resolves to find them. Traveling far and wide, she uncovers the surprising truth about her mother's romantic and ultimately tragic life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2003