'¿Qué le parece si formásemos un club? Lo llamaremos el Club de los Martes. Nos reuniremos y cada uno deberá exponer un problema real y los demás competiremos para solucionarlo'. A partir de esta conversación nacen trece magníficas historias policíacas.
Tras los famosos casos de Styles y del Campo de Golf, la fama de Poirot crece día a día, llegando a convertirse en el detective predilecto de la buena sociedad británica. A esta época pertenecen estos relatos, como 'La aventura de la tumba egipcia'.
Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property, they have inherited some worthless bric-a-brac, including a collection of antique books. While rustling through a copy of The Black Arrow, Tuppence comes upon a series of apparently random underlinings. However, when she writes down the letters, they spell out a very disturbing message: M a r y – J o r d a n – d i d – n o t – d i e – n a t u r a l l y…
Le crime de l'Orient-Express Par le plus grand des hasards, Hercule Poirot se trouve dans la voiture de l'Orient-Express - ce train de luxe qui traverse l'Europe - où un crime féroce a été commis. Une des plus difficiles et des plus délicates enquêtes commence pour le fameux détective belge. Autour de ce cadavre, trop de suspects, trop d'alibis.
Poirot se encuentra en Estambul. Es pleno invierno y decide tomar el Orient Express. Cuando despierta en su coche-cama, una tormenta de nieve ha detenido el tren y un norteamericano ha sido salvajemente apuñalado. El asesino aún se encuentra en el tren...
Agatha Christies most exotic murder mystery in a sumptuous hardback Special Edition.The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything until she lost her life.Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: Id like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger. Yet in this exotic setting nothing is ever quite what it seems
Miss Buckley, en vacances avec des amis dans sa maison de Cornouailles, échappe trois fois a la mort. Pour Hercule Poirot, qui séjourne dans un hôtel voisin, le doute n'est plus possible : quelqu'un cherche a assassiner la jeune femme.
Agatha Christie's famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to `get rid of' her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead. And yet the great Belgian detective couldn't help feeling that he was being taken for a ride.After all, how could Jane have stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? And what could be her motive now that the aristocrat had finally granted her a divorce?
An old widow is brutally killed in the parlour of her cottage...`Mrs McGinty's dead!'`How did she die?'`Down on one knee, just like I!'The old children's game now seemed rather tasteless. The real Mrs McGinty was killed by a crushing blow to the back of the head and her pitifully small savings were stolen.Suspicion falls immediately on her lodger, hard up and out of a job. Hercule Poirot has other ideas - unaware that his own life is now in great danger...
Truman
