Una joven acude a Poirot para que la ayude a rehabilitar el nombre de su madre muerta. Su padre, un famoso pintor, fue envenenado, y su madre juzgada y condenada por este crimen. La muchacha fue enviada a Canadá y regresa para casarse tras 16 años.
El relato 'Testigo de cargo' da título al libro y Agatha Christie lo convirtió en una obra de teatro que luego pasaría al celuloide. También cabe destacar 'El segundo gong'. Completan el libro unos relatos cuyo 'leiv motiv' es el amor y la muerte.
La lectura de un antiguo libro de mitología da a Poirot la idea de realizar, antes de retirarse a cultivar calabacines, un remedo de los doce trabajos del mítico Hércules griego. Los músculos del héore serán substituidos por el cerebro del detective.
En una antigua mansión inglesa, se reúnen a cenar un grupo variopinto: un distinguido abogado, un famoso tenista con su actual mujer, su antigua y desconsolada esposa y el hombre que siempre la amó. Al día siguiente la anfitriona aparece muerta.
El doctor Christow se debate entre tres mujeres: Gerda, con la que está casado actualmente; su amante y conocida escultora, y una actriz con la que estuvo prometido hace años. Hercule Poirot es invitado a cenar y se enfada al ver una macabra broma.
Un millonario acaba de morir en un bombardeo aéreo. Su testamento tenía en cuenta a toda la familia que esperaban ansiosamente el dinero. Poirot ha escuhado algo que pone en duda la legitimidad de la
Una joven viuda egipcia, Reniseb, regresa al hogar paterno en busca de paz y tranquilidad tras la muerte de su esposo. Allí convivirá con sus hermanos mayores y sus esposas. Su padre ha traído una nueva concubina cuya llegada acabará con la paz hogareña.
A facsimile first edition hardback of Poirots most famous book, published to mark the 80th anniversary of his first appearance. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stopped the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of the year. But by the morning there was one passenger fewer. An American lay dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. With tension mounting, detective Hercule Poirot comes up with not one, but two solutions to the crime. To mark the 80th anniversary of Hercule Poirot''s first appearance, and to celebrate his renewed fortunes as a primetime television star, this launch title in a collection of facsimile first editions is the perfect way to experience Agatha Christie. Reproducing the original typesetting and format of the first edition from the Christie family''s own archive, this book sports the original cover which has been painstakingly restored to its original glory. Need it be said the little grey cells solve once more the seemingly insoluble. Mrs Christie makes an improbable tale very real, and keeps her readers enthralled and guessing to the end. Times Literary Supplement
Early one morning the Bantrys wake to find the dead body of a young woman in their library. Who is she? How did she get there? The police are called, of course, but Dolly Bantry quickly invites her f
A brand new Radio 4 dramatisation of a classic Agatha Christie mystery. Lady Tresselian invites several guests to stay at her seaside house at Gulls Point. Against her better judgment she has allowed handsome tennis ace Neville Strange and his wife Kay, to come at the same time as Nevilles ex-wife Audrey. Neville is the ward of Lady Tresselians late husband. Other guests include Mary, Lady Tresselians companion; Ted, Kays ever-present friend; Thomas, a family friend who has just returned from spending the war in Africa, and Lady Tresselians old friend Lord Justice Treves. When Mr. Treves dies suddenly, and Lady Tresselian is murdered in her bed, the house party is thrown into turmoil. It is left to Scotland Yards Detective Inspector Leach and Mr. Macwhirter, an ex-detective who happens to be another house guest, to solve the case.
