A perfect introduction to Agatha Christie - four of the best Hercule Poirot stories, chosen for their readability and sense of adventure. A man is found shot through the head in a locked room. A wealthy banker vanishes while posting a letter. A thief disappears with a haul of rubies and emeralds. And, in the golden sands of Egypt, the men who discovered an ancient tomb are dying one by one ...Hercule Poirot, the fussy Belgian detective with the egg-shaped head and immaculate moustache, solved some of the world's most puzzling crimes. This book contains four of the very best stories, selected by John Curran, author of Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks, and Sophie Hannah, who wrote the brand new Hercule Poirot novel, The Monogram Murders. Includes the stories 'The Double Clue', 'The Market Basing Mystery', 'The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim' and 'The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb'.
Un cadre bien délimité - le Vallon, propriété de la toujours belle Lucy Angkatell ; des suspects en nombre restreint ; pour Hercule Poirot, l''assassinat du médecin John Christow pourrait ressembler aux affaires dont il a l''habitude.Mais, cette fois-ci, tous les indices menent a des impasses, tous les soupçons se revelent injustifies. Comme si une intelligence non moins redoutable que celle du petit detective a moustaches s''appliquait a brouiller les pistes.Qui veut-on donc proteger ? Et pourquoi ? Le lecteur ne le saura qu''aux dernieres pages.Et Poirot s''inclinera devant un adversaire a sa mesure.
Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to 'get rid' of her estranged husband. Now he is dead and Jane had a cast-iron alibi, she was dining with friends at the time and after all he had granted her a divorce, so what motive did she have?
Les Quatre Grands (titre original en anglais "The Big Four") est un roman policier dAgatha Christie publié en 1927. Le livre met en scène le célèbre détective belge, Hercule Poirot, qui se retrouve f
In Agatha Christies short story, The Case of the Missing Will, Poirot must help clever student Violet Marsh meet the terms of an unusual will by her Uncle Andrew. She must live in his house for a month and prove her wits if she is ever to receive his fortune. But is there another will? This short story originally appeared in the October 31, 1923 issue of The Sketch magazine.
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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 pharoahs 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 Hercule Poirot!
Lymstock was a town with more than its fair share of shameful secrets - a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate-mail caused only a minor stir. But all that changed when Mrs Symmington c
Little did Anthony Cade suspect that a simple errand on behalf of a friend would make him the centrepiece of a murderous international conspiracy. Someone would stop at nothing to prevent the monarchy being restored in faraway Herzoslovakia. The combined forces of Scotland Yard and the French Surete can do no better than go in circles — until the final murder at Chimneys, the great country estate that yields up an amazing secret…
