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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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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: "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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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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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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Summary: "A refugee of the Great War, Poirot is settling in England near Styles Court, the country estate of his wealthy benefactress, the elderly Emily Inglethorp. When Emily is poisoned and the authorities are baffled, Poirot puts his prodigious sleuthing skills to work. Suspects are plentiful, including the victim's much younger husband, her resentful stepsons, her longtime hired companion, a young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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Summary: "Returning home one day, Hercule Poirot finds a furious woman demanding to know why Poirot has accused her of murdering a man she has never met. Poirot has certainly accused nobody of murder. Shaken, he goes inside, only to find a man who claims he received a nearly identical letter fromPoirot that morning...Poirot wonders how many more letters have been sent in his name. Who sent them, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2018
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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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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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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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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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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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Summary: Everyone blamed Emily Arundell's accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her. On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously, he didn't receive the letter until June 28th by which time Emily was already dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2011
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: Mrs McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion fell immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes revealed traces of the victim's blood and hair. Yet something was amiss: Bentley just didn't look like a murderer. The redoubtable detective Hercule Poirot believed he could save the man from the gallows -- what he didn't realise was that his own life was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1987
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Summary: "Hercule Poirot is traveling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill estate. Richard Devonport has summoned the renowned detective to prove that his fiancée, Helen, is innocent of the murder of his brother, Frank. Poirot will have only days to investigate before Helen is hanged, but there is one strange condition attached: he must conceal his true reason for being...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: Hercule Poirot returns home after an agreeable luncheon to find an angry woman waiting to berate him outside his front door. Her name is Sylvia Rule, and she demands to know why Poirot has accused her of the murder of Barnabas Pandy,a man she has neither heard of nor ever met. She is furious to be so accused, and deeply shocked. Poirot is equally shocked, because he too has never heard of any...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2018
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Summary: "At a Halloween party, Joyce-a surly 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. Famed detective Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate. Set against a night of trickery and the occult, it's up to Poirot to uncover the real evil presence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023