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And So There Were None

      Agatha Christie

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick

One of the most famous and beloved mysteries from the queen of suspense, Agatha Christie!  More than 100 one thousand thousand copies sold and now a Lifetime TV film.

Ten people, each with something to hibernate and something to fear, are invited to a isolated mansion on Indian Island past a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear. On the island they are cut off from everything simply each other and the inescapable shadows of their own past lives. One by one, the guests share the darkest secrets of their wicked pasts. And one past one, they die…

Which among them is the killer and will whatever of them survive?

Murder on the Orient Limited

      Agatha Christie

What more than tin can a mystery addict desire than a much-loathed murder victim found aboard the luxurious Orient Express with multiple stab wounds, xiii likely suspects, an decidedly brilliant detective in Hercule Poirot, and the most ingenious offense ever conceived?

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

      Agatha Christie

Who poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorpe, and how did the murderer penetrate and escape from her locked bedroom? Suspects abound in the quaint village of Styles St. Mary--from the heiress's fawning new married man to her ii stepsons, her volatile housekeeper, and a pretty nurse who works in a hospital dispensary. Making his unforgettable debut, the brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is on the instance. The cardinal to the success of this way of detective novel, writes Elizabeth George in her Introduction, lies in how the author deals with both the clues and the cerise herrings, and it has to be said that no one bettered Agatha Christie at this game.

The Secret Adversary

      Agatha Christie

Tommy and Tuppence, ii young people short of money and restless for excitement, embark on a daring business scheme – Young Adventurers Ltd.

Their advertising says they are 'willing to do anything, go anywhere'. But their first assignment, for the sinister Mr Whittington, plunges them into more danger than they always imagined…

Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories

      Agatha Christie

At concluding, a unmarried volume that gathers together all of the brusque stories featuring Agatha Christie's almost famous cosmos, Hercule Poirot. The dapper, mustache-twirling little Belgian with the egg-shaped caput and curious mannerisms has solved some of the most puzzling crimes of the century—and, in his own humble opinion, is "probably the greatest detective in the world."

In this consummate collection of more than than 50 stories, ranging from short tales to novellas, Poirot faces violent murders, poisonings, kidnappings, and thefts—all solved with his characteristic panache. Only Agatha Christie could have devised cases worthy of Hercule Poirot's skill and "little grayness cells."

Decease on the Nile

      Agatha Christie

The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything - until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalls an before flare-up by a fellow passenger: 'I'd like to put my beloved lilliputian pistol against her head and only press the trigger.' Yet in this exotic setting, zero is ever quite what it seems...

The Body in the Library

      Agatha Christie

Colonel Bantry has found the strangled body of an exotic blonde bombshell lying on his library hearth - and the neighbors are showtime to talk! When Miss Marple takes an interest, though, things begin to move along nicely, and its all far more convoluted - and sordid - than the genteel Bantrys could take imagined.

A curmudgeonly financier, his cocky-absorbed adult children, a couple of pragmatic and clever hotel workers, tons of money and influence, a wild local lad, some smitten girls, the motion-picture show business organisation, mix into a classic Christie plot filled with twists, turns, and double-backs galore. Plus the glorious settings of A Peachy House, a fancy Hotel, and an excessively genteel fiddling village, and let's non forget Miss Marple...

The Witness for the Prosecution

      Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie's classic short story collection, published to tie-in with a new BBC Tv adaptation of the volume's most indelible and shocking thriller, The Witness for the Prosecution. 1920s London. A murder, brutal and bloodthirsty, has stained the plush carpets of a handsome London townhouse. The victim is the glamorous and enormously rich Emily French. All the evidence points to Leonard Vole, a immature chancer to whom the heiress left her vast fortune and who ruthlessly took her life. At to the lowest degree, this is the story that Emily's dedicated housekeeper Janet Mackenzie stands past in courtroom. Leonard however, is adamant that his partner, the enigmatic chorus girl Romaine, tin can prove his innocence.

The Murder on the Links

      Agatha Christie

A millionaire dies...

'One tin can run into by his face that he was stabbed in the back' said Poirot.

But the strangest feature of the case was where they establish the trunk - in an open grave!

Hercule Poirot had answered an appeal for assist - but he was too late!

MURDER - baroque and baffling - had come up to the Villa Genevieve.

Endless Night

      Agatha Christie

When penniless Michael Rogers discovers the beautiful house at Gypsy's Acre and then meets the heiress Ellie, it seems that all his dreams have come true at once. But he ignores an sometime woman'due south warning of an ancient curse, and evil begins to stir in paradise. As Michael soon learns: Gypsy's Acre is the place where fatal "accidents" happen.

A Pocket Full of Rye

      Agatha Christie

A handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman! Male monarch Fortescue, rex of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his 'counting house' when he suffered an agonising and sudden expiry. On afterward inspection, the pockets of the deceased were constitute to comprise traces of cereals. Yet, it was the incident in the parlour which confirmed Jane Marple's suspicion that here she was looking at a example of offense by rhyme!

The Mystery of the Blue Train

      Agatha Christie

When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again -- for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost recognition. What is more, her precious rubies are missing.

The prime suspect is Ruth's estranged married man, Derek. Still Poirot is not convinced, so he stages and eerie re-enactment of the journeying, complete with the murderer on board.

Mrs. McGinty's Expressionless

      Agatha Christie

Mrs. McGinty is dead and everyone suspects James Bentley, her slightly shifty lodger, but Superintendent Spence is suspicious plenty to ask for Hercule Poirot's aid. Soon, the seemingly simple state of affairs turns into a complex spider web of lies and hidden identities. Unabridged. v CDs.

Murder on the Orient Limited / Expiry on the Nile / the Mirror Cracked / the Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie Boxed Set)

      Agatha Christie

E-book exclusive extras:

1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne'south essay on The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the nifty Belgian detective

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd broke all the rules of detective fiction and made Agatha Christie a household name. There are two things you must do if y'all know nothing of this book: talk over it with no one, and read it with all speed—considering it contains one of the biggest surprises in criminal offense fiction.

In the quiet hamlet of King'due south Abbot a widow'southward suicide has stirred suspicion—and dreadful gossip. There are rumours that she murdered her first married man, that she was being blackmailed, and that her hugger-mugger lover was Roger Ackroyd. And so, on the verge of discovering the blackmailer'southward identity, Ackroyd himself is murdered.

The Mousetrap and Other Plays

      Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie created magnificent works of suspense for the theater, and eight of her riveting stage dramas are collected in The Mousetrap and Other Plays—including the championship piece, the longest running play in history, yet a smash hit in London's W End after threescore years!

On an isolated island, ten people have been brought together to exist killed off. An evil old woman has a rendezvous with decease in the desert heat of Jerusalem. A scheming wife testifies confronting her husband in a shocking murder trial. And a homicidal maniac terrorizes a grouping of snowbound guests to the refrain of "Iii Blind Mice."

This collection of viii works proves that Agatha Christie's plays are as compulsive as her novels, with their colorful characters and ingenious plots providing yet more evidence of her mastery of the detective thriller.

Includes: And then There Were None, Appointment with Death, The Hollow, The Mousetrap, Witness for the Prosecution, Towards Zero, Verdict, and Get Back for Murder.

Murder Is Easy

      Agatha Christie

An elderly lady is on her way to Scotland Yard to report several murders in her village. "It is very easy to kill, so long as no one suspects y'all," she tells the homo she meets on the London train, retired policeman Luke Fitzwilliam. He ascribes information technology all to a bright imagination and hopes they'll let the sometime dear downwardly lightly. That is, until he learns about two more suspicious deaths - one of which is the old lady'due south.

Lord Edgware Dies

      Agatha Christie

Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to 'get rid of' her estranged husband. Now the monstrous human was dead. And yet the great Belgian detective couldn't assistance feeling that he was being taken for a ride. Subsequently all, how could Jane accept stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at exactly the aforementioned time she was seen dining with friends? And what could be her motive now that the blueblood had finally granted her a divorce?

4:50 From Paddington

      Agatha Christie

Elspeth McGillicuddy is not given to hallucinations. Until she witnesses a murder at Paddington Station. Simply did she? No victim, no doubtable, no other witnesses. In fact no one believes it actually happened at all. Except her friend Miss Jane Marple, and she's returning to the scene of the criminal offence to discover just exactly what Mrs. McGillicuddy saw.

Also published every bit: What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw

The Moving Finger

      Agatha Christie

The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his accident under the care of his sister, Joanna. Only before long a serial of cruel poison-pen messages destroys the village's tranquility charm, eventually causing 1 recipient to commit suicide. The vicar, the doctor, the servants—all are on the verge of accusing i some other when help arrives from an unexpected quarter. The vicar'south houseguest happens to be none other than Jane Marple.

Poirot'due south Early Cases: 18 Hercule Poirot Mysteries

      Agatha Christie

The entire tales in this Mystery Masters audiobook include all the ones in the print book first published in 1974. With each case, Poirot further proves his reputation as the greatest mind in detective fiction. In "The Plymouth Limited," the trunk of the daughter of a wealthy American industrialist is found stuffed under a train seat. "Problem at Sea" finds a disliked rich woman murdered in a locked room on a send. "The King of Clubs" involves a prince, his dancer fiancée, and a fiendish flake of bribery. These gems are alternately read by David Suchet and Hugh Fraser, whose roles as, respectively, Poirot and his sidekick, Captain Hugh Hastings, in PBS's Mystery! serial and the Arts and Entertainment's Poirot serial are considered definitive.

This collection contains the post-obit stories:
"The Gamble of Johnnie Waverly,"
"The Adventure of the Clapham Cook,"
"The Affair of the Victory Ball,"
"The Chocolate Box,"
"The Cornish Mystery,"
"The Double Clue,"
"Double Sin,"
"How Does Your Garden Grow?,"
"The Rex of Clubs,"
"The Lemesurier Inheritance,"
"Lost Mine,"
"Market place Basing Mystery,"
"The Plymouth Express,"
"Problem at Sea,"
"The Submarine Plans,"
"The Third-Flooring Apartment,"
"The Veiled Lady,"
and "Wasps' Nest."

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