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Una de las mejores novelas protagonizadas por la dulce, intuitiva y perspicaz Miss Marple.Los habitantes del apacible pueblecito de Chipping Cleghorn ven alterada su vida cotidiana ante un anuncio en el periodico local que dice: Se anuncia un asesinato que tendra lugar el viernes, 29 de octubre, en Little Paddocks, a las seis y media de la tarde. ¿Una broma infantil? ¿O un engaño destinado a asustar a la pobre Letitia Blacklock? Incapaz de resistir la logica curiosidad, una multitud decide acudir al domicilio de la victima de esa muerte anunciada en el dia y la hora señalados. Cuando el reloj marca las seis y media, las luces se apagan y se oye un disparoy los alli presentes comprobaran que lo que en apariencia no era mas que una extravagancia se convierte en un asesinato que solo Miss Marple podra desentrañar.La historia mas ingeniosa que escribio Agatha Christie, Daily Express

Un asesinato brutal resuelto de forma soberbiaEs Nochebuena y la reunión familiar de los Lee se ve interrumpida por un estruendo seguido de un grito que proviene del piso de arriba. En una de las habitaciones, el cuerpo del despotico patriarca Simeon Lee descansa sobre un charco de sangre, con un corte en la garganta.Cuando llega, Poirot se encuentra con una atmosfera de desconfianza y sospechas mutuas. Parece que todo el mundo tenia sus razones para odiar al anciano.a

Agatha Christies most famous murder mystery, reissued with a new cover to tie in with the hugely anticipated 2017 film adaptation. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer in case he or she decides to strike again.

La obra maestra de Agatha Christie. Esta edición restituye el título original de la novela mundialmente conocida como Diez negritos. Edición ilustrada.Diez personas que no se han visto nunca son invitadas por un huesped desconocido a pasar unos dias de vacaciones en una lujosa mansion, situada en una isla de la costa inglesa. Despues de la primera cena, una misteriosa grabacion desvelara que cada uno de los presentes tiene algo que esconder y un crimen por el que pagar. Cuando el cuerpo de uno de los invitados aparezca con signos de haber sido asesinado, la tension estallara: el criminal esta entre ellos, preparandose para actuar de nuevo, y solo una vieja cancion infantil parece encerrar el misterio de la creciente pesadilla. Y no quedo ninguno, conocida mundialmente con el titulo de Diez negritos, es la novela de misterio mas vendida de la historia. La presente edicion incorpora ilustraciones de Guillermo Berdugo y una introduccion y propuestas de trabajo a cargo de Silvia Iriso.

Agatha Christie. The search of secret documents, written during the First World War, which were lost in the sinking of the Lusitania, resulting in a fight between British intelligence and an international band that wants to use the documents as an instrument of Bolshevik propaganda. The mysterious Mr. Brown: But in the maelstrom of war two young spies.

Lily Murgrave visita a Hércules Poirot porque el señor Ruben Astwell ha sido asesinado, y aunque todos los indicios apuntan a su sobrino, la señora Astwell, para quien Lily trabaja, tiene el presentimiento de que el culpable es otro. El detective belga se instalara en Mon Repos, la mansion de los Astwell, para dilucidar el misterio e investigar bien de cerca a cada uno de los sospechosos.

Hércules Poirot es contratado por Mary Marvell, famosa actriz de cine, porque ha recibido extraños mensajes anónimos que exigen la devolución de su magnífico diamante, "Estrella del Oeste", antes de la proxima luna llena. Pero eso no es todo, Lady Yardly, poderosa dama de la sociedad que posee un diamante gemelo, el "Estrella del Este", ha recibido amenazas similares. ¿Podra Poirot proteger las valiosas joyas? ¿Y que hara si desaparecen?

Golden Deer Classics publishes the greatest works of historys greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections include a linked table of contents.Agatha Christie was a British author of crime fiction. Christies career spanned over 50 years and featured over 60 novels. Christies book The Mysterious Affairs at Styles, was the first to feature the legendary character Hercule Poirot. This collection includes the following:NOVELS:The Mysterious Affair at StylesThe Secret Adversary

The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by 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. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). 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. This is also the setting of Curtain, Poirots last case. The book includes maps of the house, the murder scene, and a drawing of a fragment of a will. The true first publication of the novel was as a weekly serial in the The Times, including the maps of the house and other illustrations included in the book. This novel was one of the first ten books published by Penguin Books when it began in 1935. This first mystery novel by Agatha Christie was well received by reviewers. An analysis in 1990 was positive about the plot, considered the novel one of the few by Christie that is well-anchored in time and place, a story that knows it describes the end of an era, and mentions that the plot is clever. Christie had not mastered cleverness in her first novel, as "too many clues tend to cancel each other out"; this was judged a difficulty "which Conan Doyle never satisfactorily overcame, but which Christie would."

The Tuesday Night Club is a venue where locals challenge Miss Marple to solve recent crimes...One Tuesday evening a group gathers at Miss Marple's house and the conversation turns to unsolved crimes...The case of the disappearing bloodstains; the thief who committed his crime twice over; the message on the death-bed of a poisoned man which read 'heap of fish the strange case of the invisible will; a spiritualist who warned that 'Blue Geranium' meant death...Now pit your wits against the powers of deduction of the 'Tuesday Night Club'.

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.

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.

Essex, Inglaterra. La millonaria Emily Inglethorp amanece muerta en su habitación sin indicio alguno de violencia. Aunque la policía descarta que se trate de un asesinato, demasiadas rivalidades en

In one of London's most elegant shops, a decorative doll in green velvet adopts some rather human, and sinister, traits. . . A country gentleman is questioned about a murder that has yet to be committed. . . While summoning spirits, a medium is drawn closer to the world of the dead than she ever imagined possible. . . In a small country church, a dying man's last word, sanctuary, becomes both an elegy and a clue to a crime.Only the Queen of Mystery could have conceived such delicious treats for suspense lovers. Only the inimitable Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple could solve them with such chilling perfection.

Del aeropuerto de Le Bourget despega un avión con catorce personas a bordo. Poco antes de que la aeronave aterrice en su destino, fallece una de las pasajeras. Tiene una pequeña marca en el cuello. En un principio, la causa de la muerte parece deberse a la picadura de una avispa, pero pronto se descubre que en realidad ha sido asesinada con undardo envenenado.¿Quien tenia motivos para desear su muerte? Y, sobre todo, ¿como ha podido alguien consumar su crimen en pleno vuelo? Parece algo imposible. El detective Hercule Poirot, que era uno de los pasajeros del avion, se enfrenta a un misterio aparentemente irresoluble en el que nada es lo que parece.

Luke Fitzwilliam, un funzionario di polizia in pensione, durante il viaggio di ritorno a Londra dall'Oriente, dove per anni ha lavorato al servizio di Sua Maesta, incontra in treno un'anziana signorina diretta a Scotland Yard: intende denunciare una serie di omicidi commessi nella graziosa e tranquilla cittadina di Wychwood-under-Ashe. La donna non arrivera mai a destinazione perche a Londra verra investita da un'auto pirata. L'omicidio riaccende l'animo dell'ex poliziotto, decisissimo a smascherare l'autore del crimine.