Agatha Christie
Author
Formats
Description
"For lovers of the supernatural and the macabre comes this collection of ghostly and chilling stories from legendary mystery writer Agatha Christie. Fantastic psychic visions, specters looming in the shadows, encounters with deities, a man who switches bodies with a cat--be sure to keep the light on whilst reading these tales. The Last Séance gathers twenty stories, some featuring Christie's beloved detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, in...
Author
Description
Recognized as one of Christie's cleverest mysteries in the highly popular Poirot series. It is sure to be a success with her many avid fans. A serial killer is on the loose, murdering his victims in alphabetical order, leaving an ABC Railway Guide beside each body ... and also playing a game with Hercule Poirot, alerting him in advance to the location of the murders, but Poirot always arrives too late. Intrigued by the psychopath's mind and methodology,...
Author
Description
Sir Stafford Nye's journey home from Malaya to London takes an unexpected twist in the passenger lounge at Frankfurt -- a young woman confides in him that someone is trying to kill her. Yet their paths are to cross again and again -- and each time the mystery woman is introduced as a different person. Equally at home in any guise in any society she draws Sir Stafford into a game of political intrigue more dangerous than he could possibly imagine....
Author
Description
El cuerpo sin vida de una heredera yace en el vagón de un tren. Un joven popular es acuchillado en un baile de disfraces. Una anciana sospecha que está siendo envenenada. Un príncipe teme por su reputación cuando se sabe que su novia está implicada en un asesinato. El cadáver de un hombre solitario que habitaba una vieja mansión descansa en su habitación con un tiro en la cabeza. Estos son solo algunos de los casos a los que se enfrenta...
Author
Series
Description
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 responsible for this ghastly deed.
Author
Description
"Lo que más desea Gwenda Reed al llegard a Inglaterra es encontrar una bonita casa para que todo esté listo cuando su marido se reúne con ella. Cuando ve por primera vez Hillside siente que lo ha logrado: ese será su futuro hogar. Pero pronto comienzan a suceder cosas extrañas y Gwenda no puede evitar tener la impresión de ya haber estado en ese lugar: una habitación sellada, una puerta oculta, una sensación irracional de terror cada...
Author
Description
"In 1922 Agatha Christie set sail on a ten-month voyage around the world. Her husband, Archibald Christie, had been invited to join a trade mission to promote the British Empire Exhibition, and Christie was determined to go with him. It was a life-changing decision for the young novelist, a true voyage of discovery that would inspire her future writing for years to come. Placing her two-year-old daughter in the care of her sister, Christie set sail...
Author
Series
Description
A young woman named Carla Lemarchant needs Hercule Poirot's help. Sixteen years earlier, her father died from poison. Her mother was convicted of the crime and died after a year in prison. Carla fears that the man she is about to marry will always view her with suspicion unless her mother's name can be cleared. Poirot must delve deep into the past to find the real truth. Was it really murder? Suicide? Or, for sixteen years, has someone lived with...
Author
Series
Description
"Rex Fortescue, un importante hombre de negocios, muere en su oficina. El forense informa que ha sido envenenado con taxina, una rara substancia que se obtiene a partir de las hojas del tejo, árboles que precisamente rodean la finca de la familia. Para mayor desconcierto de la policía, hallan en el bolsillo del difunto se halla un puñado de granos de centeno. Poco después, en la residencia de los Fortescue ocurren dos muertes más en lo que...
Author
Description
A collection of eighteen stories featuring Hercule Poirot includes "The Plymouth Express," a case that begins when the body of the daughter of a wealthy American industrialist is found stuffed under a train seat, and "Problem at Sea," which finds a disliked rich woman murdered in a locked room on a ship.
13) Matar es fácil
Author
Series
Description
Un joven ex policía, Luke Fitzwilliam, coincide en el tren con la señorita Pinkerton, una anciana que le cuenta extrañas historias de asesinatos acontecidos en el pueblo de Wychwood, y le anuncia que la próxima víctima será el doctor Humbleby. Al día siguiente, Luke lee en la prensa que el mencionado médico ha muerto, y además, que la misteriosa anciana ha sido atropellada por un coche. Alarmado, se traslada a Wychwood donde finge...
Author
Series
Description
"In this official authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, Hercule Poirot must solve a perplexing case of midair murder when he discovers that the woman in seat two of the airborne aeroplane he's traveling on is quite unexpectedly-and unnaturally-deceased. Now with a beautiful new series look. From seat No. 9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers on the short flight from Paris to London. Over to his right sat...
Author
Series
Description
Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffee house is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified, but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done. Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a fashionable London hotel have been murdered, and a cufflink has been placed in each one's mouth. Could there be a connection with...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 5
Description
"Framed in the doorway of Hercule Poirot's bedroom stands an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man stares for a moment, then he sways and falls. Who is he? Is he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what is the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper? Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigue, risking his life--and that of his 'twin brother'--to uncover...
Author
Series
Description
"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 there from the rest of the Devonport family. The coach...
Author
Series
Little Library mystery volume 4
Formats
Description
"Little Person author Zoe Zola believes that one of the unluckiest things in life is to receive an invitation--in the form of a letter edged in black--to an Agatha Christie symposium at an old Upper Peninsula hunting lodge. Her reluctance dissipates when she learns that the organizer is named Emily Brent--the name of a character poisoned by cyanide in Christie's And Then There Were None. As a dreary rain soaks the U.P., Zoe and nine other Christie...