Nelle tre indagini presentate in questo volume l'inossidabile Poirot, l'investigatore belga dagli inconfondibili baffetti nato nel 1920 dalla penna di Agatha Christie, si trova a fare i conti con un mistero che anche per le sue infallibili "celluline grigie", forse, non ha soluzione: quello del sottile fascino femminile. La celebre attrice Jane Wilkinson, protagonista di "Se morisse mio marito", è sospettata di aver ucciso il suo consorte, il vizioso Lord Edgware. Eppure, con l'aiuto dello stesso Poirot, aveva appena ottenuto il consenso al divorzio. Inoltre la sera del delitto si trovava in tutt'altro luogo, come possono confermare molti testimoni. Tutto fa pensare che sia vittima di un'abilissima macchinazione. La seconda lemme fatale" è Elinor Carlisle che, nella "Parola alla difesa", sembra essere l'unica possibile colpevole dell'omicidio di Mary Gerrard, una ragazza di campagna straordinariamente bella e dolce, prediletta della ricca zia Laura, che forse intendeva farne la sua erede. Nel "Ritratto di Elsa Greer" Caroline Crale viene accusata di aver ucciso il marito, il geniale pittore Amyas, che stava per lasciarla, ammaliato da una giovanissima e procace modella. Ritenuta colpevole, incarcerata, Caroline muore in prigione senza aver neppure tentato di dimostrare la propria innocenza. Quale segreto ha portato per sempre con sé?
Agatha Christies most daring crime mystery - an early and particularly brilliant outing of Hercule Poirot, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, with its legendary twist, changed the detective fiction genre for ever. Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Now, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with a drug overdose. But the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information. Unfortunately, before he could finish the letter, he was stabbed to deat
As a favour to an old friend, Hercule Poirot finds himself at a summer fete in Devon, taking part not in a Treasure Hunt, but a Murder Hunt, in this never-before-published novella version of Dead Man's Folly. Now released for the first time in print in this illustrated collector's edition. Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well known crime writer, agrees to organise their murder hunt. But at the last minute Ariadne calls her friend Hercule Poirot for his expert assistance. Instinctively, she senses that something sinister is about to happen...In 1954, Agatha Christie wrote this novella with the intention of donating the proceeds to a fund set up to buy stained glass windows for her local church at Churston Ferrers, and she filled the story with references to local places, including her own home of Greenway. But having completed it, she decided instead to expand the story into a full-length novel, Dead Man's Folly, which was published two years later, and donated a Miss Marple story (Greenshaw's Folly) to the church fund instead. Unseen for sixty years, Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly is finally published in this collector's hardback edition. The book includes a jacket painting, illustrations and exclusive introduction by Tom Adams, Agatha Christie's most famous cover artist, who is back illustrating Agatha Christie for the first time in more than 30 years.
D'abord publié en feuilleton dans le Daily Express, ce roman de 1935 est sans doute lenquête la plus ardue que Poirot aura eu à démêler. Il est alors à la retraite et ne reprend du service que pour
The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie. It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 and in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head (John Lanes UK company) on 21 January 1921.Styles was Christies first published novel. It introduced Hercule Poirot, Inspector (later, Chief Inspector) Japp, and Arthur Hastings. Poirot, a Belgian refugee of the Great War, is settling in England near the home of Emily Inglethorp, who helped him to his new life. His friend Hastings arrives as a guest at her home. When the woman is killed, Poirot uses his detective skills to solve the mystery.
Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in a Victorian mansion which doubles as a rehabilitation centre for delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when a youth fires a revolver at the administrator, Lewis Serrocold. Neither is injured. But a mysterious visitor, Mr Gilbrandsen, is less fortunate - shot dead simultaneously in another part of the building.
First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond … then came the suicide that was murder … the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat … a suspicious death in a locked gun-room … a million dollar bond robbery… the curse of a pharaohs 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 will. What links these fascinating cases? Only the brilliant deductive powers of Hercule Poirot!.
