THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES

Publication Date: 1920
ISBN: 9780007527496

Description: Agatha Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was the result of a dare from her sister Madge who challenged her to write a story. The story begins when Hastings is sent back to England from the First World War due to injury and is invited to spend his sick leave at the beautiful Styles Court by his old friend John Cavendish. Here, Hastings meets John’s step-mother, Mrs Inglethorp, and her new husband, Alfred. Despite the tranquil surroundings Hastings begins to realise that all is not right. When Mrs Inglethorp is found poisoned, suspicion falls on the family, and another old friend, Hercule Poirot, is invited to investigate.

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Agatha Christie’s The Double Clue

Publication Date: 1923
ISBN: 9780008168698

Description: An antique collector loses some of his pieces at a tea party. A cigarette lighter holds the key to the culprit. From Poirot’s Early Cases and Double Sin and Other Stories.

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POIROT INVESTIGATES

Publication Date: 1924
ISBN: 9780008164836

Description: “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 cheap 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 will.”

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THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD

Publication Date: 1926
ISBN: 9780007527526

Description: “Known for its startling reveal, this is the book that changed Agatha Christie’s career.

Roger Ackroyd was a man who knew too much. He knew the woman he loved had poisoned her first husband. He knew someone was blackmailing her – and now he knew she had taken her own life with a drug overdose. Soon the evening post would let him know who the mystery blackmailer was. But Ackroyd was dead before he’d finished reading it – stabbed through the neck where he sat in the study.”

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THE BIG FOUR

Publication Date: 1927
ISBN: 9780008164904

Description: Framed in the doorway of Poirot’s bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man’s gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell. Who was he? Was he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what was the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper? Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigue, risking his life to uncover the truth about ‘Number Four’.

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THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUE TRAIN

Publication Date: 1928
ISBN: 9780008129484

Description: Aboard the luxurious Blue Train running from London to the Riviera, pampered millionaire’s daughter Ruth Kettering is murdered, her expensive jewels stolen. But Poirot is at hand to solve the case.

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PERIL AT END HOUSE

Publication Date: 1932
ISBN: 9780008129521

Description: Nick Buckley was an unusual name for a pretty young woman. But then she had led an unusual life. First, on a treacherous Cornish hillside, the brakes on her car failed. Then, on a coastal path, a falling boulder missed her by inches. Later, an oil painting fell and almost crushed her in bed. Upon discovering a bullet-hole in Nick’s sun hat, Hercule Poirot decides the girl needs his protection. At the same time, he begins to unravel the mystery of a murder that hasn’t been committed. Yet.

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LORD EDGWARE DIES

Publication Date: 1933
ISBN: 9780008164850

Description: Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to ‘get rid of’ her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead. And yet the great Belgian detective couldn’t help feeling that he was being taken for a ride. After all, how could Jane have stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? And what could be her motive now that the aristocrat had finally granted her a divorce?

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THREE ACT TRAGEDY

Publication Date: 1934
ISBN: 9780008164867

Description: “At an apparently respectable dinner party, a vicar is the first to die…

Thirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actor’s house. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, went into convulsions and died.”

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MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS

Publication Date: 1934
ISBN: 9780007527502

Description: “Murder on the Orient Express is undoubtedly one of Agatha Christie’s greatest mystery novels.

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. “

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DEATH IN THE CLOUDS

Publication Date: 1935
ISBN: 9780008129538

Description: From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman.

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CARDS ON THE TABLE

Publication Date: 1936
ISBN: 9780008164898

Description: A flamboyant party host is murdered in full view of a roomful of bridge players… Mr Shaitana was famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he was a man of whom everybody was a little afraid. So, when he boasted to Poirot that he considered murder an art form, the detective had some reservations about accepting a party invitation to view Shaitana’s private collection. Indeed, what began as an absorbing evening of bridge was to turn into a more dangerous game altogether…

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MURDER IN MESOPOTAMIA

Publication Date: 1936
ISBN: 9780008164874

Description: When Amy Leatheran travels to an ancient site in the Iraqi desert to nurse the wife of a celebrated archaeologist, events prove stranger than she has ever imagined. Her patient’s bizarre visions and nervous terror seem unfounded, but as the oppressive tension in the air thickens, events come to a terrible climax – in murder. With one spot of blood as his only clue, Hercule Poirot must embark on a journey across the desert to unravel a mystery which taxes even his remarkable powers.

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THE ABC MURDERS

Publication Date: 1936
ISBN: 9780007527533

Description: The ABC Murders is a surprising novel tackling the modern figure of the serial killer and the psychology behind it.

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DEATH ON THE NILE

Publication Date: 1937
ISBN: 9780007527557

Description: “Agatha Christie’s most daring travel mystery.

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 earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: ‘I’d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.’ Yet in this exotic setting’ nothing is ever quite what it seems…”

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DUMB WITNESS

Publication Date: 1937
ISBN: 9780008129569

Description: An elderly spinster has been poisoned in her country home. Everyone blamed Emily’s accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her. On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously he didn’t receive the letter until June 28th… by which time Emily was already dead.

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MURDER IN THE MEWS

Publication Date: 1937
ISBN: 9780008164928

Description: Hercule Poirot is faced with four mystifying cases – each a miniature classic of characterisation, incident and suspense.

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APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH

Publication Date: 1938
ISBN: 9780008164959

Description: “Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her.

With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he’d overheard back in Jerusalem: ‘You see, don’t you, that she’s got to be killed?’ Mrs Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he’d ever met.”

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HERCULE POIRO’T CHRISTMAS

Publication Date: 1938
ISBN: 9780007527540

Description: It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. But when Hercule Poirot, who is staying in the village with a friend for Christmas, offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man.

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ONE TWO BUCKLE MY SHOES

Publication Date: 1940
ISBN: 9780008164966

Description: The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung right hand. Later, one of his patients was found dead from a lethal dose of local anaesthetic. A clear case of murder and suicide. But why would a dentist commit a crime in the middle of a busy day of appointments? A shoe buckle holds the key to the mystery. Now – in the words of the rhyme – can Poirot pick up the sticks and lay them straight?

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SAD CYPRESS

Publication Date: 1940
ISBN: 9780008129576

Description: An elderly stroke victim dies without having arranged a will. Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, only one man still presumed Elinor was innocent until proven guilty: Hercule Poirot was all that stood between Elinor and the gallows.

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EVIL UNDER THE SUN

Publication Date: 1940
ISBN: 9780007527571

Description: It was not unusual to find the beautiful bronzed body of the sun-loving Arlena Stuart stretched out on a beach, face down. Only, on this occasion, there was no sun… she had been strangled. Ever since Arlena’s arrival at the resort, Hercule Poirot had detected sexual tension in the seaside air. But could this apparent ‘crime of passion’ have been something more evil and premeditated altogether?

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FIVE LITTLE PIGS

Publication Date: 1942
ISBN: 9780007527519

Description: Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects: Philip Blake (the stockbroker) who went to market; Meredith Blake (the amateur herbalist) who stayed at home; Elsa Greer (the three-time divorcee) who had roast beef; Cecilia Williams (the devoted governess) who had none; and Angela Warren (the disfigured sister) who cried ‘wee wee wee’ all the way home. It is sixteen years later, but Hercule Poirot just can’t get that nursery rhyme out of his mind.

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THE HOLLOW

Publication Date: 1946
ISBN: 9780008129583

Description: Lucy Angkatell invited Hercule Poirot to lunch. To tease the great detective, her guests stage a mock murder beside the swimming pool. Unfortunately, the victim plays the scene for real. As his blood drips into the water, John Christow gasps one final word: ‘Henrietta’. In the confusion, a gun sinks to the bottom of the pool.

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THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

Publication Date: 1947
ISBN: 9780007527595

Description: Before retirement, Poirot takes on the twelve labours of his namesake, each one a new mystery to be solved across Europe. This collection includes 12 short stories.

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TAKEN AT THE FLOOD

Publication Date: 1948
ISBN: 9780008129545

Description: A few weeks after marrying an attractive young widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the Cloade family fortune. Shortly afterwards, Hercule Poirot receives a visit from the dead man’s sister-in-law who claims she has been warned by ‘spirits’ that Mrs Underhay’s first husband is still alive. Poirot has his suspicions when he is asked to find a missing person guided only by the spirit world. Yet what mystifies Poirot most is the woman’s true motive for approaching him.

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MRS. MCGINTY’S DEAD

Publication Date: 1952
ISBN: 9780007527588

Description: ‘Mrs McGinty’s dead!’ ‘How did she die?’ ‘Down on one knee, just like I!’ The old children’s game now seemed rather tasteless. The real Mrs McGinty was killed by a crushing blow to the back of the head and her pitifully small savings were stolen. Suspicion falls immediately on her lodger, hard up and out of a job. Hercule Poirot has other ideas – unaware that his own life is now in great danger.

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AFTER THE FUNERAL

Publication Date: 1953
ISBN: 9780007562695

Description: “The master of a Victorian mansion dies suddenly – and his sister is convinced it was murder…. When 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. At the reading of Richard’s will, Cora was clearly heard to say: ‘It’s been hushed up very nicely, hasn’t it…But he was murdered, wasn’t he?’ In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to unravel the mystery.
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HICKORY DICKORY DOCK

Publication Date: 1955
ISBN: 9780008129552

Description: An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Hercule Poirot’s interest. But when he saw the list of stolen and vandalized items – including a stethoscope, some old flannel trousers, a box of chocolates, a slashed rucksack and a diamond ring found in a bowl of soup – he congratulated the warden, Mrs Hubbard, on a ‘unique and beautiful problem’. The list made absolutely no sense at all. But, reasoned Poirot, if this was merely a petty thief at work, why was everyone at the hostel so frightened?

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DEAD MAN’S FOLLY

Publication Date: 1956
ISBN: 9780007556878

Description: A charity murder game at a Devon house turns into the real thing. Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fête, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well known crime writer, agrees to organise their murder hunt. Despite weeks of meticulous planning, at the last minute Ariadne calls her friend Hercule Poirot for his expert assistance. Instinctively, she senses that something sinister is about to happen…Beware – nobody is quite what they seem!

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CAT AMONG PIGEONS

Publication Date: 1959
ISBN: 9780007527564

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THE ADVENTURE OF THE CHRISTMAS PUDDING

Publication Date: 1960
ISBN: 9780008164980

Description: An Eastern prince loses a ruby when his mistress walks away with it. From The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and Double Sin and Other Stories.

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THE CLOCKS

Publication Date: 1963
ISBN: 9780008129590

Description: As instructed, stenographer Sheila Webb let herself into the house at 19 Wilbraham Crescent. It was then that she made a grisly discovery: the body of a dead man sprawled across the living room floor.

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THIRD GIRL

Publication Date: 1966
ISBN: 9780008129606

Description: Three young women share a London flat. The first is a coolly efficient personal secretary; the second is an artist; and the third interrupts Hercule Poirot’s breakfast of brioche and hot chocolate insisting that she is a murderer – and then promptly disappears.

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HALLOWEEN PARTY

Publication Date: 1969
ISBN: 9780008129613

Description: At a Hallowe’en party, Joyce – a hostile thirteen-year-old – boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the ‘evil presence’. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer.

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ELEPHANTS CAN REMEMBER

Publication Date: 1972
ISBN: 9780008164973

Description:

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CURTAIN POIROT’S LAST CASE

Publication Date: 1975
ISBN: 9780007527601

Description: Poirot and Hastings come full circle at Styles, and there is still one case for Poirot to solve. Who is the serial killer X?

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BLACK COFFEE

Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 9780008196653

Description: Sir Claud Amory’s revolutionary new formula for a powerful explosive is stolen. Locking his house-guests in the library, Sir Claud switches off the lights to allow the thief to replace the formula, no questions asked. When the lights come on, he is dead, and Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings have to unravel a tangle of family feuds, old flames and suspicious foreigners to find the killer and prevent a global catastrophe.

2. Miss Marple

The Murder at the Vicarage

Publication Date: 1930
ISBN: 9780008196516

Description: ‘Anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe,’ declared the parson, brandishing a carving knife above a joint of roast beef, ‘would be doing the world at large a favour!’ It was a careless remark for a man of the cloth. And one which was to come back and haunt the clergyman just a few hours later – when the colonel was found shot dead in the clergyman’s study. But as Miss Marple soon discovers, the whole village seems to have had a motive to kill Colonel Protheroe.

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The Thirteen Problems

Publication Date: 1932
ISBN: 9780008196523

Description: 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;

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The Body in the Library

Publication Date: 1942
ISBN: 9780008196530

Description: It’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing evening dress and heavy make-up, which is now smeared across her cheeks. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is the connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry? The respectable Bantrys invite Miss Marple to solve the mystery… before tongues start to wag.

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The Moving Finger

Publication Date: 1942
ISBN: 9780008196547

Description: A spate of poison pen letters wreaks havoc on an English village. Once a place of trust, now all inhabitants are full of accusations. Who could be writing the letters and why?

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A Murder is Announced

Publication Date: 1950
ISBN: 9780008196554

Description: Promoted on both sides of the Atlantic as Agatha Christie’s 50th book and published in 1950 by William Collins, A Murder is Announced is a staple of crime fiction and is often considered the best of all the Miss Marple novels.

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They Do It with Mirrors

Publication Date: 1952
ISBN: 9780008196561

Description: Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in a Victorian mansion which doubles as a rehabilitiation centre for delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when a youth fires a revolver at the administrator, Lewis Serrocold. Neither is injured. But a mysterious visitor, Mr Gilbrandsen, is less fortunate – shot dead simultaneously in another part of the building.

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A Pocket Full of Rye

Publication Date: 1953
ISBN: 9780008196578

Description: A series of murders disguised within a nursery rhyme, Miss Marple’s on the case with two of Agatha Christie’s favourite themes, this time following the rhyme ‘Sing a Song of Sixpence’. A handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman…

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4.50 from Paddington

Publication Date: 1957
ISBN: 9780008196585

Description: For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Helplessly, she stared out of her carriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip around a woman’s throat. The body crumpled. Then the other train drew away. But who, apart from Miss Marple, would take her story seriously? After all, there were no suspects, no other witnesses… and no corpse.

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The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side

Publication Date: 1962
ISBN: 9780008196592

Description: One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been gabbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a massive seizure. But for whom was the deadly poison really intended?

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A Caribbean Mystery

Publication Date: 1964
ISBN: 9780008196608

Description: An exotic holiday for Miss Marple is ruined when a retired major is killed… As Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Eventually, her interest was aroused by an old soldier’s yarn about a strange coincidence. Infuriatingly, just as he was about to show her an astonishing photograph, the Major’s attention wandered. He never did finish the story.

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At Bertram’s Hotel

Publication Date: 1965
ISBN: 9780008196615

Description: An old-fashioned London Hotel is not quite as reputable as it makes out… When Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she’s looking for at Bertram’s Hotel: traditional decor, impeccable service and an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer. Yet, not even Miss Marple can foresee the violent chain of events set in motion when an eccentric guest makes his way to the airport on the wrong day…

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Nemesis

Publication Date: 1971
ISBN: 9780008196622

Description: “In utter disbelief Miss Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr Rafiel – an acquaintance she had met briefly on her travels. Recognising in Miss Marple a natural flair for justice, Mr Rafiel had left instructions for her to investigate a crime after his death. The only problem was, he had failed to tell her who was involved or where and when the crime had been committed. It was most intriguing.”

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Sleeping Murder

Publication Date: 1976
ISBN: 9780008196639

Description: “The owner of a seaside villa is plagued by strange feelings about its past…

Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs…”

3. Mystery

THE MAN IN THE BROWN SUIT

Publication Date: 1924
ISBN: 9780008196202

Description: Pretty, young Anne Beddingfeld has come to London looking for adventure. But adventure finds her when a strange-smelling man falls off an Underground platform and is electrocuted on the rails. The police verdict is accidental death.

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WHILE THE LIGHT LASTS

Publication Date: 1924
ISBN: 9780008196462

Description: Newlyweds, George and Deidre Crozier are travelling through Africa, and George suspects Deidre is thinking of her first husband, killed in that very country. From While the Light Lasts and The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories.

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THE LISTERDALE MYSTERY

Publication Date: 1925
ISBN: 9780008196431

Description: Down on her luck and living with family in a boarding house, Mrs St Vincent comes across an advert to rent a beautiful house with a benevolent landlord. From The Listerdale Mystery.

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THE SECRET OF CHIMNEYS

Publication Date: 1925
ISBN: 9780008196219

Description: Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper; so the other house guests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off, one after the other, starting at 6.30 a.m.

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THE SEVEN DIALS MYSTERY

Publication Date: 1929
ISBN: 9780008196226

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THE MYSTERIOUS MR. QUIN

Publication Date: 1930
ISBN: 9780008196417

Description: It had been a typical New Year’s Eve party. But as midnight approaches, Mr Satterthwaite – a keen observer of human nature – senses that the real drama of the evening is yet to unfold. And so it proves when a mysterious stranger knocks on the door. Who is Mr Quin?

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THE SITTAFORD MYSTERY

Publication Date: 1931
ISBN: 9780008196233

Description: In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a small table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: ‘Captain Trevelyan… dead… murder.’

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THE HOUND OF DEATH

Publication Date: 1933
ISBN: 9780008196424

Description: A doctor meets a nun traumatised by the Great War. An attempt to restore the woman’s sanity results in the uncovering of something very sinister indeed. From The Hound of Death and The Golden Ball and Other Stories.

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PARKER PYNE INVESTIGATES

Publication Date: 1934
ISBN: 9780008196448

Description: Mrs Packington felt alone, helpless and utterly forlorn. But her life changed when she stumbled upon an advertisement in The Times which read: ‘Are you happy? If not, consult Mr Parker Pyne.’

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WHY DIDN’T THEY ASK EVANS ?

Publication Date: 1934
ISBN: 9780008196288

Description: While playing an erratic round of golf, Bobby Jones slices his ball over the edge of a cliff. His ball is lost, but on the rocks below he finds the crumpled body of a dying man. With his final breath the man opens his eyes and says, ‘Why didn’t they ask Evans?’

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PROBLEM AT POLLENSA BAY

Publication Date: 1935
ISBN: 9780008196455

Description: Holidaying Mallorca, Parker Pyne is approached by a fellow British guest looking for some assistance saving her son from an unsuitable marriage… From Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories and The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories.

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MURDER IS EASY

Publication Date: 1939
ISBN: 9780008196301

Description: The novel concerns the efforts of a retired police officer, Luke Fitzwilliam, to discover the identity of a serial killer active in the village of Wychwood under Ashe. He learns that the series of deaths were mistaken for accidents by the locals, while the nobleman Lord Whitfield mysteriously attributes most of them to divine justice.

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AND THEN THERE WERE NONE

Publication Date: 1939
ISBN: 9780008123208

Description: 1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime.

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DEATH COMES AS THE END

Publication Date: 1944
ISBN: 9780008196325

Description: It is Egypt, 2000 BC, where death gives meaning to life. At the foot of a cliff lies the broken, twisted body of Nofret, concubine to a Ka-priest. Young, beautiful and venomous, most agree that she deserved to die like a snake. Yet Renisenb, the priest’s daughter, believes that the woman’s death was not fate, but murder.

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TOWARDS ZERO

Publication Date: 1944
ISBN: 9780008196318

Description: “An elderly widow is murdered at a clifftop seaside house…

What is the connection between a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and the romantic life of a famous tennis player?”

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SPARKLING CYANIDE

Publication Date: 1945
ISBN: 9780008196332

Description: A beautiful heiress is fatally poisoned in a West End restaurant. Six people sit down to dinner at a table laid for seven. In front of the empty place is a sprig of rosemary – in solemn memory of Rosemary Barton who died at the same table exactly one year previously.

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CROOKED HOUSE

Publication Date: 1949
ISBN: 9780008196349

Description: A wealthy Greek businessman is found dead at his London home… The Leonides were one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion.

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THEY CAME TO BAGHDAD

Publication Date: 1951
ISBN: 9780008196356

Description: Baghdad is the chosen location for a secret summit of superpowers, concerned but not convinced, about the development of an, as yet, unidentified and undescribed secret weapon.

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DESTINATION UNKNOWN

Publication Date: 1954
ISBN: 9780008196363

Description: A young woman with nothing to live for is persuaded to embark on a suicide mission to find a missing scientist. When a number of leading scientists disappear without trace, concern grows within the international intelligence community.

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ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE

Publication Date: 1958
ISBN: 9780008196370

Description: The Argyle family is far from pleased to discover one of its number has been posthumously pardoned for murder – if Jacko Argyle didn’t kill his mother, who did? Dr. Arthur Calgary takes a ferry across the Rubicon River to Sunny Point, the home of the Argyle family.

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ENDLESS NIGHT

Publication Date: 1967
ISBN: 9780008196394

Description: Gipsy’s Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea – and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after.

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PASSENGER TO FRANKFURT

Publication Date: 1970
ISBN: 9780008196400

Description: Sir Stafford Nye’s journey home from Malaya to London takes an unexpected twist in the passenger lounge at Frankfurt – a young woman confides in him that someone is trying to kill her. Yet their paths are to cross again and again – and each time the mystery woman is introduced as a different person.

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THE UNEXPECTED GUEST

Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 9780008196677

Description: When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog in South Wales and makes his way to an isolated house, he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of her wheelchair-bound husband, gun in her hand. She admits to murder, and the unexpected guest offers to help her concoct a cover story.

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SPIDER’S WEB

Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: 9780008196660

Description: Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. ‘Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?’ she muses. Clarissa has her chance to find out when she discovers a body in the drawing-room of her house in Kent.

4. Tommy and Tuppence

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The Secret Adversary

Publication Date: 1922
ISBN: 9780007590599

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

Their advertisement 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 ever imagined.”

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Partners in Crime

Publication Date: 1929
ISBN: 9780007590605

Description: Tommy and Tuppence Beresford were restless for adventure, so when they were asked to take over Blunt’s International Detective Agency, they leapt at the chance.

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N or M?

Publication Date: 1941
ISBN: 9780007590612

Description: It is World War II, and while the RAF struggles to keep the Luftwaffe at bay, Britain faces an even more sinister threat from ‘the enemy within’ – Nazis posing as ordinary citizens. With pressure mounting, the Intelligence service appoints two unlikely spies, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Their mission: to seek out a man and a woman from among the colourful guests at Sans Souci, a seaside hotel. But this assignment is no stroll along the promenade. After all, N and M have just murdered Britain’s finest agent.

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By the Pricking of My Thumbs

Publication Date: 1968
ISBN: 9780007590629

Description: An old woman in a nursing home speaks of a child buried behind the fireplace… When Tommy and Tuppence visited an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they thought nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada was a very difficult old lady. But when Mrs Lockett mentioned a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs Lancaster talked about ‘something behind the fireplace’, Tommy and Tuppence found themselves caught up in an unexpected adventure involving possible black magic…

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Postern of Fate

Publication Date: 1973
ISBN: 9780007590636

Description: Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property, they have inherited some worthless bric-a-brac, including a collection of antique books. While rustling through a copy of The Black Arrow, Tuppence comes upon a series of apparently random underlinings. However, when she writes down the letters, they spell out a very disturbing message: M a r y – J o r d a n – d i d – n o t – d i e – n a t u r a l l y… And sixty years after their first murder, Mary Jordan’s enemies are still ready to kill.

5. Short stories

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Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories

Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 9780006513773

Description: The complete collection of short stories featuring one of Agatha Christie’s most beloved characters, Hercule Poirot.

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Miss Marple and Mystery: The Complete Short Stories

Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 9780007284184

Description: The complete collection of short stories featuring one of Agatha Christie’s most beloved characters, Miss Marple.

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Detectives and Young Adventurer: The Complete Short Stories

Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 9780007284191

Description: 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.

6. Sophie Hannah

7. Mary Westmacott

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Unfinished Portrait

Publication Date: 1934
ISBN: 9780008131470

Description: Bereft of the three people she has held most dear – her mother, her husband and her daughter – Celia is on the verge of suicide. Then one night on an exotic island she meets Larraby, a successful portrait painter, and through a long night of talk reveals how she is afraid to commit herself to a second chance of happiness with another person, yet is not brave enough to face life alone.

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Absent in the Spring

Publication Date: 1944
ISBN: 9780008131432

Description: Returning from a visit to her daughter in Iraq, Joan Scudamore finds herself unexpectedly alone and stranded in an isolated rest house by flooding of the railway tracks. This sudden solitude compels Joan to assess her life for the first time ever and face up to many of the truths about herself.

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The Rose and the Yew Tree

Publication Date: 1948
ISBN: 9780007590629

Description: A beautiful, upper class woman marries a working class opportunist, but his attempts to elevate himself lead to unforeseen consequences. A Westmacott novel.

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A Daughter’s a Daughter

Publication Date: 1952
ISBN: 9780008131425

Description: The love between a mother and daughter turns to jealousy and bitterness in Christie’s fifth novel published under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. Ann Prentice falls in love with Richard Cauldfield and hopes for new happiness.

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The Burden

Publication Date: 1956
ISBN: 9780008131456

Description: The bounds of jealousy, love and obsession blur in this tale of the fierce relationship between two sisters