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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!

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.

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.

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