Uma jovem e rica americana é encontrada morta no trem de Bristol a Plymouth, e suas valiosas joias foram roubadas. As suspeitas de Poirot incluem o marido, jogador endividado, o amante francês e a cr
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...
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.
D'abord publié en feuilleton dans le Daily Express, ce roman de 1935 est sans doute lenquête la plus ardue que Poirot aura eu à démêler. Il est alors à la retraite et ne reprend du service que pour
