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(Fictitious character) Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) Poirot, Hercule Fiction Detective and mystery stories Detective and mystery stories, English England Government investigators Fiction Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction Private investigators Private investigators England Fiction Serial murders FictionChristie, 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 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: 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: 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRChristie, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRChristie, 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 CHRBlackstock, Terri
Summary: When someone attempts to poison Detective Stan Shepherd, the evidence soon points to his wife Celia, but attorney Jill Clark thinks Celia is innocent and she will go to any length to prove it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan Pub. House 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: A family, snowbound in a vacation cabin, discovers adventure in surrounding wild life, three children they find in the snow, and a search for a lost recipe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 1968
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARMcdonald, Gregory
Summary: Jack Fletcher goes to Georgia to investigate a series of death attempts on Chester Radleigh the billionaire-inventor of the non-reversible mirror, ie. right is right and left is left. Fletcher is summoned by Shana Staufel who is marrying Radleigh's son, Chester Jr., and who has great faith in Fletcher's talents, in and out of bed. He was once her boyfriend. By the author of Son of Fletch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: Two brothers take summer jobs at a department store where a series of peculiar events brings them under suspicion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 1976
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Summary: Investigating the murder of supermodel Alie'e Maison, Lucan Davenport finds complications on the victim's drug habits and secret sex life, as well as the suspicion of one of Davenport's own men and the discovery of a second body in the house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall & Co. 2000
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Summary: Investigating the murder of supermodel Alie'e Maison, Lucas Davenport finds complications in the victim's drug habits and secret sex life, as well as the suspicion of one of Davenport's own men and the discovery of a second body in the house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2000
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANClare, Alys.
Summary: Late autumn, 1196. A stranger arrives at New Winnowlands but disappears. A body is found in the forest, and three Knights Hospitallers arrive on the trail of a runaway monk. Josse realizes the mysterious guest brought a terrible secret- and danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLACavendish, Grace.
Summary: When the Court clockmaker, Mr Urseau, is found dead in his workshop - a dagger in his chest and a key clutched in his hand - rumours start flying. Was the murderer his young assistant? Or maybe his wife? Both could be after Urseau's private treasure. And where is the key from? What is it for? Lady Grace, Queen Elizabeth's own Lady Pursuiviant is determined to get to the bottom of all these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Fox 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CAVEvanovich, Janet.
Summary: Hoping to discontinue her career as a bounty hunter for something safer, Stephanie Plum is inadvertently drawn into a case that is complicated by her tangled love life, her chaotic family, and her penchant for wrecking cars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC EVAGrafton, Sue.
Summary: In Santa Teresa, California, PI Kinsey Millhone is hired by a mother to investigate her daughter's death, which police are unable to solve. As Millhone probes, there emerges a picture of a two-facetted woman, simple receptionist during the day and porno queen at night.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1994
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GRAHambly, Barbara.
Summary: When Jefferson Vitrack - the white half-brother of Benjamin January's wife - turns up on January's doorstep in the summer of 1838 claiming he has discovered a clue to the whereabouts of the family's lost treasure, January has no hesitation about refusing to help look for it. For the treasure lies in Haiti, the island that was once France's most profitable colony - until the blood-chilling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMEvanovich, Janet.
Summary: Hoping to discontinue her career as a bounty hunter for something safer, Stephanie Plum is inadvertently drawn into a case that is complicated by her tangled love life, her chaotic family, and her penchant for wrecking cars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M EVAPatterson, James
Summary: FBI agent Alex Cross is after a serial murderer who chooses as his victims women who've neglected their children for successful careers in the entertainment industry. He describes the murders in overheated e-mails he addresses to his victims but sends to hapless entertainment columnist Arnold Griner, signing them "Mary Smith."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner AudioBooks 2005
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Summary: PD detective turned FBI agent Alex Cross is enjoying a much-needed vacation at Disneyland with his family when he's called in by the FBI to consult with the LAPD on a high-profile murder case. A-list actress Antonia Schifman has been slain, her face so badly cut up that she's almost unrecognizable. The murder isn't random; an L.A. Times gossip columnist has received a series of e-mails from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PATPatterson, James
Summary: PD detective turned FBI agent Alex Cross is enjoying a much-needed vacation at Disneyland with his family when he's called in by the FBI to consult with the LAPD on a high-profile murder case. A-list actress Antonia Schifman has been slain, her face so badly cut up that she's almost unrecognizable. The murder isn't random; an L.A. Times gossip columnist has received a series of e-mails from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PATPeters, Elizabeth.
Summary: In Egypt to excavate pyramids, Amelia Emerson and her husband investigate an attempt to kill their son, Ramses. The incident appears connected to a friend of Ramses who is selling forged artifacts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Twilight 1999