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Dieser Band enthält - links englisch, rechts deutsch - drei Erzählungen von Klassikern der englischen Kiminal-Literatur: Edgar Wallace, Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers. Ob die Spannung durch ein einfaches Rezept oder durch ein raffiniertes Know how erzeugt wird - gleichviel: spannend sind die Geschichten!

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.

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 ...

Contemporary / British English (Available May 2008) Linnet Ridgeway is rich, beautiful and clever. She appears to have everything. But Linnet also has enemies. When she is shot dead on a passenger boat in Egypt, it is fortunate that Hercule Poirot is also on the trip. But even for the great Belgian detective, this is not a simple case.

Miss Marple''s first case is adapted into the first Miss Marple comic book in this long-awaited adaptation of one of Agatha Christie''s most famous novels. Nothing ever happens in the peaceful village of St Mary Mead. So it seems almost incredible when Colonel Protheroe is discovered shot through the head in the vicarage study. Unfortunately for the murderer, there is someone in the village who knows everything, sees everything and hears everything - and she intends to work out who killed the Colonel. Her name is Miss Marple! The Murder at the Vicarage was the book that introduced Miss Marple to the world. Loosely based on Agatha Christie''s own grandmother, this charming but suspicious old lady was to become the world''s most famous amateur sleuth, and is brought to life in this graphic adaptation by the artist Norbert Morandiere, known internationally as ''Norma''. 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.

An exciting new series which provides reading and language learning at five levels, through full-colour, beautifully illustrated Readers. All new vocabulary is clearly highlighted in the text, and on-page glossaries include example sentences or definitions and provide pronunciation support. Each book is also supported by an interactive CD-ROM which contains additional activities and the complete audio recording. Hercule Poirot has received a letter which is simply signed 'ABC'. The writer promises a mystery that is too difficult even for the great mind of the famous Belgian detective. Poirot is worried by the letter, but there seems to be no case to solve. And then the murders begin.

At the Jolly Roger Hotel the guests appear to be relaxing in the sun. But when a beautiful woman is killed, there are many possible suspects. What can the motive be? Is there evil at work on the island? By chance, the great detective, Hercule Poirot is also a guest. Can he solve the mystery?

Evidence that clears the name of a boy sentenced for killing his adopted mother arrives too late to save his life so who did kill her?Dr. Arthur Calgary takes a ferry across the Rubicon River to Sunny Point, the home of the Argyle family.A year before, the matriarch of the family was murdered and a son, Jack, was convicted and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison.Throughout the trial Jack had maintained his innocence, claiming he was hitchhiking on the night of the murder and he had been picked up by a middle-aged man in a dark car. Unable to locate this mystery man the police viewed Jacks as a lie. Calgary was the stranger in question, but he arrives to late for Jack who succumbs to pneumonia after serving just six months of his sentence.Feeling a sense of duty to the Argyles, Calgary is surprised when his revelation has a disturbing effect on the family it means one of the family is a murderer

Les dix invités sont arrivés sur l'île du Nègre, mais rien ne semble normal : leur hôte est absent et quelqu'un a déposé dans leur chambre une comptine intitulée Les dix petits Nègres. Tout bascule quand une voix accuse chacun des invités d'un crime. Avec la couverture de la première édition parue dans la collection en 1940.

A wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take placeThe house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara , Nurse Craven, Colonel Luttrell and his charming wife, Daisy, and the charismatic Boyd-Carrington.So Hastings was shocked to learn from Hercule Poirots declaration that one of them was a five-times murderer. True, the ageing detective was crippled with arthritis, but had his deductive instincts finally deserted him?

Agatha Christie's 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.

El misterio perfecto para la brillante y misteriosa Miss Marple.Son las siete de la mañana. Los Bantry se despiertan con una desagradable sorpresa: el cuerpo inerte de una joven mujer desconocida en su biblioteca. Lleva un vestido de noche y bastante maquillaje, que ahora embadurna sus mejillas.Pero, ¿quien es ella? ¿Como llego alli? ¿Y cual es la conexion con otra chica muerta, cuyos restos carbonizados mas tarde se descubrio en una cantera abandonada? Los respetables Bantry invitan a Miss, Marple, amiga de la señora Banty, a resolver el misterio con su increible intuicion antes de que las malas lenguas empiecen a trabajar.

Un célebre caso que pone a prueba la extrema lucidez de Hércules Poirot.Durante unas placenteras vacaciones en Egipto, el detective Hércules Poirot coincide con Linnet y Simon, unos conocidos suyos que estan de luna de miel en el pais de los faraones.El encanto de tan maravillosos dias se rompe cuando una mañana, en el transcurso de un crucero por el Nilo, la bella Linnet aparece muerta de un disparo en la cabeza.¿Sera capaz Poirot de encontrar al asesino de la joven esposa? ¿Sera capaz de discernir entre imaginacion y realidad, aun estando a bordo la ex pareja de Simon, empeñada desde el mismo dia de la boda en arruinar su matrimonio con la desafortunada Linnet?El misterio esta servido.

Una de les novel·les més cèlebres d’Agatha Christie.La novel·la que ha inspirat la pel·lícula.Aïllats en un creuer enmig del riu, la tensió entre els passatgers augmenta quan un triangle amorós es co