The ABC Murders

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061739936
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
There's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way though the alphabet. There seems little chance of the murderer being caught -- until her makes the crucial and vain mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot to frustrate his plans ...

Appleby's End

Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755120841
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127

Book Description
Appleby's End was where Detective Inspector John Appleby got off the train from Scotland Yard. But that was not the only coincidence. Why did Ranulph Raven's mysterious descendants make such a point of inviting Appleby to spend the night at their house?

The Southern Woman

Author: Elizabeth Spencer
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0593241185
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 529

Book Description
A stunning collection of stories from “one of the foremost chroniclers of the American South” (The Washington Post), including the novella “Light in the Piazza”—featuring an introduction by Afia Atakora, author of Conjure Women Over the course of a fifty-year career, Elizabeth Spencer wrote masterly, lyrical fiction about southerners. An outstanding storyteller who was unjustly denied a Pulitzer for her anti-racist novel The Voice at the Back Door despite being the unanimous choice of the judges, she is recognized as one of the most accomplished writers of short fiction, infusing her work with elegant precision and empathy. The Southern Woman collects the best of Spencer’s short stories, displaying her range of place—the agrarian South, Italy in the decade after World War II, the gray-sky North, and, finally, the contemporary Sun Belt. The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance

Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062330551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories gathers together in one magnificent volume all of Agatha Christie’s short stories featuring her beloved intrepid investigator, Miss Marple. It’s an unparalleled compendium of murder, mayhem, mystery, and detection that represents some of the finest short form fiction in the crime fiction field, and is an essential omnibus for Christie fans. Described by her friend Dolly Bantry as “the typical old maid of fiction,” Miss Marple has lived almost her entire life in the sleepy hamlet of St. Mary Mead. Yet, by observing village life she has gained an unparalleled insight into human nature—and used it to devastating effect. As her friend Sir Henry Clithering, the ex-Commissioner of Scotland Yard, has been heard to say: “She’s just the finest detective God ever made”—and many Agatha Christie fans would agree.

Murder-go-round

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Dodd Mead
ISBN: 9780396065548
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 638

Book Description
A collection of three mysteries, Thirteen at Dinner, A.B.C. Murders, and Funerals are Fatal. Hercule Poirot is once again the detective.

The Night of the Green Dragon

Author: Dorothy Dixon
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780194219471
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Howard wakes up in hospital. Two people are waiting to question him about a dead body. All he can remember is a green dragon and a pool of blood. Howard escapes from the hospital and then slowly remembers the terrible events of the last few days.

Malice Aforethought

Author: Francis Iles
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486834611
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
A philandering doctor resolves to poison his domineering wife in this classic of psychological suspense. No. 16 in the Crime Writers' Association's Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time.

Hercule Poirot's Casebook

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780399150210
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 861

Book Description
Here, for the first time in one volume, is the complete collection of fifty stories about Hercule Poirot.

The A.B.C. Murders

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062073583
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
There’s a serial killer on the loose, working his way through the alphabet and the whole country is in a state of panic. A is for Mrs. Ascher in Andover, B is for Betty Barnard in Bexhill, C is for Sir Carmichael Clarke in Churston. With each murder, the killer is getting more confident—but leaving a trail of deliberate clues to taunt the proud Hercule Poirot might just prove to be the first, and fatal, mistake.

The A.B.C. Murders

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9780425200490
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
Alice Ascher from Andover is the first victim. Next to her corpse is a spellbinding clue. It seems that a killer is knocking off his victims one-by-one, A through Z. Alphabetically speaking, Hercule Poirot fears that it's a matter of one down, twenty-five to go.