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Diez personas sin relación alguna entre sí son reunidas en un misterioso islote de la costa inglesa por un tal Sr. Owen, propietario de una lujosa mansión a la par que perfecto desconocido para todos sus invitados. Tras la primera cena, y sin haber conocido aun a su anfitrion, los diez comensales son acusados mediante una grabacion de haber cometido un crimen en el pasado.Uno por uno, a partir de ese momento, son asesinados sin explicacion ni motivo aparente. Solo una vieja cancion infantil parece encerrar el misterio de una creciente pesadilla.

Dos historias de Agatha Christie: Le Noël d'Hercule Poirot (1938) y Christmas Pudding (1960)

Una tabla pesada que sale en la cabecera de una cama. Una roca cae por un acantilado y se estrella en la pista. Los frenos de un coche en descenso... Y finalmente, una bala perdida que viene para quedarse en un sombrero! Para Hercules Poirot, de vacaciones en la costa sur de Inglaterra, no hay duda...

A perfect introduction to Agatha Christie - four of the best Hercule Poirot stories, chosen for their readability and sense of adventure. A man is found shot through the head in a locked room. A wealthy banker vanishes while posting a letter. A thief disappears with a haul of rubies and emeralds. And, in the golden sands of Egypt, the men who discovered an ancient tomb are dying one by one ...Hercule Poirot, the fussy Belgian detective with the egg-shaped head and immaculate moustache, solved some of the world's most puzzling crimes. This book contains four of the very best stories, selected by John Curran, author of Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks, and Sophie Hannah, who wrote the brand new Hercule Poirot novel, The Monogram Murders. Includes the stories 'The Double Clue', 'The Market Basing Mystery', 'The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim' and 'The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb'.

Un cadre bien délimité - le Vallon, propriété de la toujours belle Lucy Angkatell ; des suspects en nombre restreint ; pour Hercule Poirot, l''assassinat du médecin John Christow pourrait ressembler aux affaires dont il a l''habitude.Mais, cette fois-ci, tous les indices menent a des impasses, tous les soupçons se revelent injustifies. Comme si une intelligence non moins redoutable que celle du petit detective a moustaches s''appliquait a brouiller les pistes.Qui veut-on donc proteger ? Et pourquoi ? Le lecteur ne le saura qu''aux dernieres pages.Et Poirot s''inclinera devant un adversaire a sa mesure.

From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No. 13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What Poirot did not yet realise was that behind him, in seat No. 2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman.

Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to 'get rid' of her estranged husband. Now he is dead and Jane had a cast-iron alibi, she was dining with friends at the time and after all he had granted her a divorce, so what motive did she have?

While playing an erratic round of golf, Bobby Jones slices a ball over the edge of a cliff. His ball is lost, but on the rocks below he finds the crumpled body of a dying man. With his final breath the man opens his eyes and says, Why didnt the ask Evans?

When a number of leading scientists disappear without trace, concern grows within the intelligence services. Are they being kidnapped? Blackmailed? One woman appears to hold the key to the mystery. Unfortunately, Olive Betterton now lies dying from injuries sustained in a Moroccan plane crash.

Agatha Christie is more than the most popular mystery writer of all time. In a career that spans over half a century, her name is synonymous with brilliant deception, ingenious puzzles, and the surprise denouement. By virtually inventing the modern mystery novel she has earned her title as the Queen of Crime. Curious? Then you're invited to read... "Passenger To Frankfurt" It was an unusual predicament for Sir Stafford Nye-to awaken in a stupor after being drugged, only to find his passport stolen. There was also no trace of the fascinating woman he encountered in Frankfurt who begged him to help save her life. But Sir Stafford's troubles are only just beginning. The target of two murder attempts, he now seeks the help of the stranger who so urgently sought his. If he can locate her. What he finds is a woman of numerous identities and twice as many secrets, who ushers him into the shadows of an international conspiracy that could well prove to be the death of them.

According to the courts, Jacko Argyle bludgeoned his mother to death with a poker. Sentenced to life imprisonment, he died behind bars following a bout of pneumonia. Two years later, new evidence emerges, with the increasing liklihood that the real murderer will strike again.