Mrs. McGinty's Dead

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780061003752
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Approached by retired police Superintendent Spence--who's convinced the wrong man has been convicted of the crime--Hercule Poirot begins an investigation into the brutal murder of an old woman.

The LeMesurier Inheritance

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: MB Cooltura
ISBN: 9877447800
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21

Book Description
Using his gray cells, Poirot will need very little time to discover the mystery behind the Lemesurier curse according to which all the firstborn die before inheriting the family fortune. The mother of the next heir asks Poirot to protect Ronald who has been having accidents that could have been fatal. The Belgian detective and his faithful companion Hasting will discover that the ancient curse could not be true.

The Case of the Missing Will

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479441341
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 10

Book Description
Miss Violet Marsh was orphaned at fourteen years of age, when she went to live with her Uncle Andrew in Devon. Now Uncle Devon has died, leaving a will with a strange clause. Can Poirot unravel the mystery?

Poirot

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007190670
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 562

Book Description
Dead man's folly: Eccentric mystery lover Ariadne Oliver's weekend game of mock murder is a big hit. But if it's just a game, then why all the blood? Luckily, one of the players is Belgian sleuth, Hercule Poirot.

Mrs. McGinty's Dead

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061749869
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Book Description
In Mrs. McGinty’s Dead, one of Agatha Christie’s most ingenious mysteries, the intrepid Hercule Poirot must look into the case of a brutally murdered landlady. Mrs. McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion falls immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes reveal traces of the victim’s blood and hair. Yet something is amiss: Bentley just doesn’t seem like a murderer. Could the answer lie in an article clipped from a newspaper two days before the death? With a desperate killer still free, Hercule Poirot will have to stay alive long enough to find out. . . .

Murder After Hours

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Popular literature
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description

Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0007546408
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Book Description
As a favour to an old friend, Hercule Poirot finds himself at a summer fete in Devon, taking part not in a Treasure Hunt, but a Murder Hunt, in this never-before-published novella version of Dead Man’s Folly. Now released for the first time as an eBook exclusive publication.

The Under Dog and Other Stories

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780062094421
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
A beautiful heiress has been found dead on a train. A playboy has been stabbed through the heart during a costume ball. An elderly woman suspects that she is being slowly poisoned to death. A prince fears for his reputation when his fiancÉe is embroiled in another man's murder. A forgotten recluse makes headlines after he is shot in the head. Who but Agatha Christie could concoct such canny crimes? Who but Belgian detective Hercule Poirot could possibly solve them? It's a challenge to be met—in a triumph of detection.

There is a Tide

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
After Gordon Cloade's gruesome death, his sister-in-law enlists Hercule Poirot to gather information on Rosaleen, Gordon's widow and sole heir, and her deceased first husband.

They Do It with Mirrors

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530605675
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
Stonygates had been built originally as a kind of Temple to Victorian Plutocracy - Philanthropy had made of it a home for Juvenile Deliquents. Over the entrance were inscribed the words "Recover Hope All Ye Who Enter Here". But Miss Jane Marple came to Stonygates in fulfilment of a promise to an old school friend to find out what was wrong at this most unusual college, now being run by the friend's third husband and housing, besides two hundred juvenile deliquents, the stepchildren of her previous marriages. As soon as she arrived Jane Marple knew thet her friend was right: something was wrong at Stonygates. What she saw around her was illusion, not reality. In the words of the conjuror "They do it with mirrors" But who? And why?