Agatha Christie
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While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift. Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment. Incredibly, that compartment is locked from the inside. With no escape into the wintery landscape the killer must still be on board. Fortunately, the brilliant...
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"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. The man opens his eyes and with his last breath says, 'Why didn't they ask Evans?' Haunting by those words, Bobby and his vivacious companion, Frankie, set out to solve a mystery that will bring them into mortal danger"--Amazon.com.
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Mark Easterbrook investigates the brutal death of Father Gorman, a Catholic priest who had just heard the deathbed confession of longtime town gossip Mrs. Davis. On his body, Father Gorman had a list of names, supposedly related to Mrs. Davis' confession. As Mark delves deep into the mystery, he uncovers a series of startling secrets.
10) Remembered death
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Bantam Books
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1985, c1943
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215 p. ; 22 cm.
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A year after his wife's death George Barton receives an anonymous note telling him that her death was murder not the suicide it had been ruled. As George investigates the people who were there when Rosemary died, he doesn't realize that stirring up old memories might lead to another murder, perhaps his own!
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 25
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HarperCollins ; Audio Partners
Pub. Date
c2002
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5 CDs (6 hr. 8 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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BBC Audiobooks America
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p2009
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5 CDs (ca. 6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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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. Equally adept at putting together the pieces of a marriage or the fragments of a murder mystery, Mr Parker Pyne was possibly the worlds most unconventional private eye and certainly its most charming.
15) Curtain
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 34
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Dodd, Mead
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c1975
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238 p. ; 22 cm.
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In Poirot's last case he returns to Styles Court, the scene of his first English adventure in crime, to track down the person responsible for several murders.
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New Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 1
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Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffee house is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified, but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done. Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a fashionable London hotel have been murdered, and a cufflink has been placed in each one's mouth. Could there be a connection with...