Agatha Christie
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The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his accident under the care of his sister, Joanna. But soon a series of vicious poison-pen letters destroys the village's quiet charm, eventually causing one recipient to commit suicide. The vicar, the doctor, the servants -- all are on the verge of accusing one another when help arrives from an unexpected quarter. The vicar's houseguest happens to be none other...
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The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense--creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characters--brings her entire oeuvre of ingenious whodunits, locked room mysteries, and perplexing puzzles to William Morrow Paperbacks. In Death Comes As the End, Dame Agatha transports us back to ancient Egypt 2000 B.C. where...
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Selecciones de biblioteca oro volume 5
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On a three-day journey through the snowbound Balkan hills, Hercule Poirot must weed through an array of international suspects to find the passenger who murdered a gangster on the Orient Express--Novelist.
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Nobody liked Mrs. Boynton. Not in England, and certainly not here in Jerusalem, where she was the most hated tourist in the Holy Land. Hercule Poirot is in hearty agreement. While the family insists she died of natural causes, the tiny puncture mark on her wrist says otherwise. Poirot knows many people had a motive for murder. But who is guilty?
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Dodd, Mead
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[1986], c1933
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vii, 273 p. ; 22 cm.
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Lady Edgware asks for Poirot's help with her husband who is refusing to divorce her. When Lord Edgware is found murdered the next morning his wife is the primary suspect, but she was at a dinner party miles away with twelve witnesses to prove it. So why do others insist that she visited him on the night of the murder? Poirot will need all the help he can get from "his little gray cells" to figure out this case.
11) The clocks
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 30
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Chivers Audio Books
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2004
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6 CDs (7 hrs, 17 mins.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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After wealthy financier Rex Fortescue's sudden death, grains of rye are inexplicably found in his pocket. The coroner's verdict is death by poisoning, yet only one of the dead man's relatives seems upset. The others all have motives to want the old man dead. When two more members of the Fortescue household are murdered, Miss Marple enters the case. But is one bizarre clue--the pocket full of rye--enough to solve the strangest case of her career?
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BBC Audio/AudioGO
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2010, c1970
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6 sound discs (6 hrs.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Sir Stafford Nye's journey home from Malaysia 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. Their paths cross again and again, and each time the mystery woman is introduced as a different person. Equally at home in any guise in any society, she draws Sir Staford into a game of political intrique more dangerous than he could possibly imagine. In an arena...
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c2002
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6 CDS (6 hrs. 23 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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The coroner's verdict: suicide, after beautiful heiress Rosemary Barton dies from drinking a cyanide-laced glass of chanpagne at her own birthday party. Her husband George doesn't believe it, based on two anonymous letters that suggest murder. But who has a motive? Rosemary's lover or the lover's spurned wife, her penniless sister, or even George or his secretary? One year after her death, six gather for dinner in remembrance. The plan is to trap...
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Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
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2021.
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237 pages ; 21 cm
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Christie’s famed detective, Hercule Poirot, is back again in Poirot Investigates, a collection of short stories in which the eccentric detective must solve a variety of chilling mysteries in the world of love and revenge. Stories such as “The Adventure of the Western Star” involve thievery of diamonds and a lover’s affair, while “The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge” features murder and disguise.
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Appears on list
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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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New Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 2
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William Morrow
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2016.
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viii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"What I intend to say to you will come as a shock ..." With these words, Lady Athelinda Playford -- one of the world's most beloved children's authors -- springs a surprise on the lawyer entrusted with her will. As guests arrive for a party at her Irish mansion, Lady Playford has decided to cut off her two children without a penny . . . and leave her vast fortune to someone else: an invalid who has only weeks to live. Among Lady Playford's visitors...