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June Whitfield is Miss Marple once again in this Agatha Christie story. In Sleeping Murder, Miss Marple is called in to solve a 'perfect crime' committed many years before.

<;em:GT;Tres ratones ciegos,lt;/em:gt; cl:amp;aacute;sico thriller de lt;strong:gt;Agatha Christielt;/strong:gt; escrito en 1952 y llevado al teatro con gran :amp;eacute;xito, narra una extraordinaria secuencia de cr:amp;iacute;menes que tienen lugar en una casa de hu:amp;eacute;spedes de estilo victoriano. En una fr:amp;iacute;a noche de invierno, van llegando a la mansi:amp;oacute;n los inquietantes inquilinos que van a pasar un fin de semana en ella. Ante la muerte de uno de ellos, llega la polic:amp;iacute;a y mediante su interrogatorio hace que la casa se convierta en una ratonera.

A seance in a snowbound Dartmoor house predicts a grisly murder...In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a small table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: 'Captain Trevelyan! dead! murder.' Is this black magic or simply a macabre joke? The only way to be certain is to locate Captain Trevelyan. Unfortunately, his home is six miles away and, with snow drifts blocking the roads, someone will have to make the journey on foot!

A perplexed girl thinks she might have killed someone...Three single girls shared the same London flat. The first worked as a secretary; the second was an artist; the third who came to Poirot for help, disappeared convinced she was a murderer. Now there were rumours of revolvers, flick-knives and blood stains. But, without hard evidence, it would take all Poirot's tenacity to establish whether the third girl was guilty innocent or insane!

En su autobiografía, Agatha Christie afirma que La casa torcida es uno de sus libros favoritos. La historia comienza cuando Charles y Sophia se conocen en El Cairo, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El conflicto los obliga a separarse y pactar un reencuentro en Londres. Acabada la guerra, y una vez en la capital inglesa, donde le espera Sophia, Charles descubre en el periodico que el abuelo de su futura mujer, un millonario griego con el que vivia toda la familia, ha muerto envenenado. Al parecer, alguien ha introducido la sustancia letal en una de las ampollas de insulina que habitualmente le inyectaban. Y todos los parientes, a cual mas peculiar, son sospechosos del crimen. Principalmente Sofia, pero incluso podrian haber sido los niños.

Magistral colección de nueve relatos que abarcan desde lo cotidiano a lo sobrenatural. Destaca. Testigo de cargo, que da título al libro y que Agatha Christie convirtió en una obra de teatro que, más tarde, pasaría al celuloide, con Billy Wilder como director y Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone Power y Charles Laughton como geniales intérpretes.

A brand new Radio 4 dramatisation of a classic Agatha Christie mystery. Lady Tresselian invites several guests to stay at her seaside house at Gull's Point. Against her better judgment she has allowed handsome tennis ace Neville Strange and his wife Kay, to come at the same time as Neville's ex-wife Audrey. Neville is the ward of Lady Tresselian's late husband. Other guests include Mary, Lady Tresselian's companion; Ted, Kay's ever-present friend; Thomas, a family friend who has just returned from spending the war in Africa, and Lady Tresselian's 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 Yard's Detective Inspector Leach and Mr. Macwhirter, an ex-detective who happens to be another house guest, to solve the case.

Anthony Cade, que ejerce de guía turístico en África del sur, recibe de un buen amigo una extraña misión que le devuelve a Inglaterra. A su llegada, se ve envuelto en una telaraña de asesinatos, chantaje y traición, relacionados con las luchas políticas internas de Herzoslovaquia, y en una romántica y misteriosa historia de amor. Todo eso complica la vida de Anthony… pero, ¿quién es en realidad Anthony Cade?

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 facsimile first edition hardback of Poirot's 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

<;em:GT;La Ratoneralt;/em:gt; es posiblemente la obra m:amp;aacute;s famosa de lt;strong:gt;Agatha Chritielt;/strong:gt;, por la obra de teatro m:amp;aacute;s representada de todos los tiempos; lleve en cartel desde 1952 en Londres, con m:amp;aacute;s de 23.000 representaciones. La obra es tambi:amp;eacute;n conocida por su inesperado final, llegado el cual se pide a los asistentes a la obra que no sea revelado. Agatha Christie cedi:amp;oacute; los derechos de la obra a su nieto Mathew Prichard como regalo de cumplea:amp;ntilde;os, creando el primer millonario de la familia.

Edición especial limirada para conmemorar el 70 aniversario de la publicación de este clásico de novela de misterio.

Some secret plans have survived the sinking of the Lusitania, and amateur sleuths Tommy and Tuppence are on the trail of international spies in order to recover them. 'Young Adventurers Limited' is a brand new private detective agency, set up by the dashing Tommy Beresford and the resourceful Tuppence Cowley. Their first assignment is to track down some secret documents which disappeared after the sinking of the Lusitania. Soon they are on the trail of the mysterious Mr Brown, the head of an international gang of crooks - and in more danger than they bargained for! The wartime sinking of the Lusitania off the Irish coast in May 1915 shocked the world. Returning to Britain from New York, the cruise ship was torpedoed by a German submarine, and 1,198 passengers lost their lives. It provided the perfect backdrop for Agatha Christie's second published novel, an ambitious spy story, now faithfully adapted by Francois Riviere and Belgian artist Frank Leclercq. Famed for her crime masterpieces, Agatha Christie's books have become the best-selling in the world, appealing to readers young and old for their ingenious plots and immediately recognizable characters.The stories have also transcended the printed page, become bestselling audiobooks and award-winning films, plays and television series. Now words and pictures combine in an exciting new way of telling these stories -- full-colour graphic novels which enhance the original stories and offer a completely new way of enjoying some of the world's most popular and exciting mysteries.

The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings...First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond! then came the 'suicide' that was murder! the mystery of the absurdly chaep flat! a suspicious death in a locked gun-room! a million dollar bond robbery! the curse of a pharoah's tomb! a jewel robbery by the sea! the abduction of a Prime Minister! the disappearance of a banker! a phone call from a dying man! and, finally, the mystery of the missing willl. What links these fascinating cases? Only the brilliant deductive powers of ...