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Uno de los misterios más celebrados de la gran dama del crimen.La obra de teatro más representada de la historia.Giles y Mollie Ralston acaban de abrir una pensión en una mansión antigua que Mollie ha heredado y solo desean que las primeras personas que acogen tengan una estancia placida. Sin embargo, cuando una nevada intensa deja la mansion Monkswell totalmente incomunicada, la noticia que les proporciona el sargento Trotter no resulta muy tranquilizadora: los clientes de la pension se encuentran bajo la amenaza de un posible asesinato. Nadie parece dar mucho credito a las palabras del agente hasta que uno de los huespedes es hallado muerto. Todos comprenderan entonces que el asesino ya ha llegado y es uno de ellos.

Una muerte en el metro de Londres, una enigmática nota, un barco y unos diamantes son las piezas de un misterioso rompecabezas que solo la hija de un arqueólogo podrá recomponer. Descubre una de las

En el transcurso de un viaje en tren, Luke Fitzwilliam se sienta junto a la anciana señorita Pinkerton, quien le explica que en el pueblo de Wychwood están teniendo lugar una serie de asesinatos, aparentemente perfectos, y le confia sus sospechas acerca de que la proxima victima sera el doctor Humbelby.Fitzwilliam no toma en consideracion los temores de la anciana hasta que, al dia siguiente, lee en el periodico que el doctor Humbelby ha desaparecido y la señorita Pinkerton ha sido arrollada por un coche cerca de una comisaria.¿Simple coincidencia? Para averiguarlo, el señor Fitzwilliam decide trasladarse al enigmatico pueblo para, una vez alli, descubrir que no solo esta repleto de secretos, sino que, escondido entre todos ellos, esperando el momento ideal para volver a actuar, se encuentra el asesino.

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''.

A brand new bumper omnibus gathering together over 50 classic Agatha Christie stories featuring Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Harley Quin, Parker Pyne and Hercule Poirot, plus her rare Christmas Stories not available in any other volume. This new compendium of over 50 stories is the first time all the stories featuring Agatha Christie's detectives have been collected together. Here you will meet - PARKER PYNE - a consulting detective whose practice is to solve less murderous enigmas and restore happiness to his clients; HARLEY QUIN - a tall, dark, mysterious young man who takes a more surreptitious approach to solving crime; TOMMY AND TUPPENCE BERESFORD - a newly married pair of self-styled 'Young Adventurers' who are prepared to do anything in the name of justice. And in addition to presenting the complete oeuvre for these detectives, this volume includes as a bonus four rare short stories featuring that grand master of detection, Monsieur HERCULE POIROT, plus Agatha Christie's little-known Christmas stories written for children, including "Star Over Bethlehem" and "The Naughty Donkey".

Agatha ChristieWhen Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard's funeral, suddenly takes on a chilling significance.

Linnet Doyle is young, beautiful, and rich. She's the girl who has everything-- including the man her best friend loves. Linnet and her new husband take a cruise on the Nile, where they meet the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot. It should be an idyllic trip, yet Poirot has a vague, uneasy feeling that something is dangerously amiss...

Agatha ChristieBaghdad is the chosen location for a secret superpower summit. Unfortunately the word is out, and an underground organization in the Middle East is plotting to sabotage the talks. Into this explosive situation skips Victoria Jones, a girl with a yearning for adventure.

Some secret plans have survived the sinking of the Lusitania, and amateur sleuths Tommy and Tuppence are on the trail of international spies in order to recover them. ''Young Adventurers Limited'' is a brand new private detective agency, set up by the dashing Tommy Beresford and the resourceful Tuppence Cowley. Their first assignment is to track down some secret documents which disappeared after the sinking of the Lusitania. Soon they are on the trail of the mysterious Mr Brown, the head of an international gang of crooks - and in more danger than they bargained for! The wartime sinking of the Lusitania off the Irish coast in May 1915 shocked the world. Returning to Britain from New York, the cruise ship was torpedoed by a German submarine, and 1,198 passengers lost their lives. It provided the perfect backdrop for Agatha Christie''s second published novel, an ambitious spy story, now faithfully adapted by Francois Riviere and Belgian artist Frank Leclercq. 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.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the first book of British author Agatha Christie, written in 1920 while working at a pharmacy of the Red Cross.

"The Secret Adversary" is a novel by British writer Agatha Christie written in 1922 and in which Tommy and Tuppence characters first appear: Tommy and Tuppence Beresford.

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!