Christie, Agatha
Summary: A is for Ascher, cudgeled in Andover. B is for Barnard, strangled in Bexhill. C is for Clarke, struck down in Churston. Beside each body is an A.B.C. Railway guide; before each murder Hercule Poirot is notified. In one of Christie's most twisted tales, the meticulous Belgian sleuth must navigate the eerie maze of a serial killer's mind. D is for Doncaster, where the next victim dies... E is for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2006
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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: 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: "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
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Summary: In this collection of mysteries, Agatha Christie presents 12 unexplained phenomena with no apparent earthly explanation, including a dog-shaped gunpowder mark, an omen from the 'other side', an eerie wireless messages and a levitation experience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 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: 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: 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: There's a body in a trunk; a dead girl's reflection is caught in a mirror; and one corpse is back from the grave, while another is envisioned in the recurring nightmare of a terrified eccentric. What's behind such ghastly misdeeds? Try money, revenge, passion, and pleasure. With multiple motives, multiple victims, and multiple suspects, it's going to take a multitude of talent to solve these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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Summary: In a Luxembourg nightclub, six friends sit down at a table laid for seven. In front of the empty place is a sprig of rosemary, as a remembrance of Rosemary Barton, who was murdered exactly one year earlier-- by one of those present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1964
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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: In this startling historical mystery, unique in the author's canon, Agatha Christie investigates a deadly mystery at the heart of a dissonant family in ancient Egypt. Imhotep, wealthy landowner and priest of Thebes, has outraged his sons and daughters by bringing a beautiful concubine into their fold. And the manipulative Nofret has already set about a plan to usurp her rivals' rightful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 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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Summary: The site of the house called The Towers had once been known as Gipsy's Acre. It was there that Michael Rogers first met a wealthy American oil heiress, Fenella Guteman, whom he was later to marry. Gypsies' warnings, and revelation of a crime follow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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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: 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: A conjurer of skill with an instinct for detection, Mr. Harley Quin has an almost magical flair for appearing at the scene of the most remarkable crimes. But is it just a trick of light that haunts his shadow with a ghostly apparition? Is it fate that invites him to a New Year's Eve murder? And what forces are at work when his car breaks down outside Royston Hall, an isolated estate with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1986
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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: Through the window of her first class coach, Mrs. McGillicuddy sees a woman being strangled in a passing train. No one believes her except her good friend Miss Marple. Now the inimitable sleuth must find a body and match wits with a killer. - Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1984
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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: 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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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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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