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The inspiration for A Haunting in Venice ¿ now a major motion picture. When a Hallowe¿en party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murderer¿

The Mysterious Affair at Styles" by Agatha Christie is a classic detective novel that marks the debut of the legendary Hercule Poirot. Set against the backdrop of a grand English estate during World War I, the story unfolds with the mysterious death of wealthy heiress Emily Inglethorp. As the family and household are thrown into disarray, the astute and eccentric Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, is summoned to unravel the enigma. With a ke...

The Big Four, written by the Queen of Crime herself, Agatha Christie, is a captivating detective novel that plunges the legendary Hercule Poirot into a world of international intrigue. Originally published in 1927, this timeless classic continues to enthrall readers with its suspenseful plot, memorable characters, and sharp wit. The story begins with Poirot receiving a visit from a mysterious stranger who reveals the existence of a powerful ...

Become a part of a riveting mystery adventure with Agatha Christie's fearless heroine"The Man in the Brown Suit." Introducing "The Man in the Brown Suit" by Agatha Christie, a thrilling mystery adventure with a fearless heroine. The story of Anne Beddingfield, whose journey to uncover the truth behind a mysterious death unfolds between London and South Africa. A classic of mystery literature, "The Man in the Brown Suit" continues to enthrall r...

In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Agatha Christie's first novel, this new edition includes a previously deleted chapter and a previously unpublished essay, 'Drugs and Detective Stories', where Christie talks about Poirot's first case and how it inspired her writing. It is widely considered that Agatha Christie was one of the greatest mystery writers in the history of literature and one of the greatest writers in the field of humani...

Celebrating 100 Years of Detectives Stories This is the very first collection of amazing short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings. First, there was the film star and the diamond mystery... then came the 'suicide' that was a murder... What links these fascinating cases? A little Belgian with an egg-shaped head that twirls his moustache. Since 1920, Hercule Poirot has appeared in 33 novels as well as these 11 short stories, b...

Hercule Poirot, the dapper Belgian detective with a penchant for order and a mind like a finely tuned chronometer, faces his most formidable foe yet in Agatha Christie's The Big Four. Not a cunning murderer, but a cabal of powerful individuals known as "The Big Four, " a secret society that wields vast influence and aims to control the world from the shadows. A cryptic warning throws Poirot and his loyal companion, Captain Hastings, into a...

2024 Reprint of the 1928 Edition. Poirot boards Le Train Bleu [The Blue Train] bound for the French Riviera. So does Katherine Grey, who is having her first winter out of England, after recently receiving a relatively large inheritance. On board the train Grey meets Ruth Kettering, an American heiress leaving her unhappy marriage to meet her lover. When the fabled Blue Train, the luxury overnight passenger express to the Riviera, arrives at Ni...

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in June 1926 in the United Kingdom by William Collins, Sons and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company. It is the third novel to feature Hercule Poirot as the lead detective. Poirot retires to a village near the home of a friend, Roger Ackroyd, to pursue a project to perfect vegetable marrows. Soon after, Ackroyd is murdered ...

Ein Krimi-Klassiker als Comic Die erdrosselte Leiche einer unbekannten Frau wird in der Bibliothek von Oberst Arthur Bantry und seiner Frau Dolly aufgefunden. Die Detektivin Miss Marple nimmt sich dem komplizierten Fall an.  Die Königin des Verbrechens Agatha Christie (1890-1976) schrieb 66 Kriminalromane und 14 Kurzgeschichtensammlungen, die in rund 100 Sprachen übersetzt und bis heute über zwei Milliarden Mal verkauft wurden. Die "Q...

Agatha Christie¿s beloved detective does it again!Hercule Poirot solves the murder of a wealthy American socialite by staging an eerie reenactment of the journey with the killer along for the ride.When the luxurious overnight passenger train from Calais to the Riviera, known as the Blue Train, arrives in Nice, a guard goes into the compartment of American heiress, Ruth Kettering and attempts to wake her. Unfortunately, she will never wake up, ...

In this exclusive authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, when a mock murder game staged for charity threatens to turn into the real thing, the intrepid Hercule Poirot is called in.Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well-known crime writer, agrees to organize their murder hunt.Despite weeks of meticulous planning, at the las...

Enjoy Agatha Christie's beloved classic, Hallowe'en Party--the inspiration for the major motion picture A Haunting in Venice, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh--with a new introduction by Michael Green, screenwriter of the film. When a Halloween party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murderer.At a Halloween party, Joyce--a surly thirteen-year-old--boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she...

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In Agatha Christie's classic puzzler Taken at the Flood, the indefatigable Hercule Poiroit investigates the troubling case of a twice-widowed woman.A few weeks after marrying an attractive widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs. Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the Cloade family fortune.Shortly afterward, Hercule Poirot receives a visit from the dead man's sister-in-...

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A most unusual series of crimes at a student hostel intrigues Inspector Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's Hickory Dickory Dock, especially when a simple case of kleptomania paves the way to murder.Hercule Poirot doesn't need all his detective skills to realize something is troubling his secretary, Miss Lemon--she has made three mistakes in a simple letter. It seems an outbreak of kleptomania at the student hostel in which her sister works is...

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