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Pub. Date
2022.
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"Nina de Gramont's The Christie Affair is a beguiling novel of star-crossed lovers, heartbreak, revenge, and murder-and a brilliant re-imagination of one of the most talked-about unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century. Every story has its secrets. Every mystery has its motives. "A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman. It's a particular feeling, the urge to murder. It takes over your body so completely, it's like a divine...
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"December 1926: England unleashes the largest manhunt in its history. The object of the search is not an escaped convict or a war criminal, but the missing wife of a WWI hero, up-and-coming mystery author Agatha Christie. When her car is found wrecked, empty, and abandoned near a natural spring, the country is in a frenzy. Eleven days later, Agatha reappears, claiming amnesia. She provides no answers for her disappearance. That is...until she writes...
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Dame Christie's most popular character, prim and proper Miss Jane Marple, is adored worldwide by mystery fans for her razor-sharp mind, intuitive understanding of criminal behavior, and trademark knitting needles. Body in the library: The body of a glamorous blonde is found in the library at Gossington Hall and Dolly Bantry needs to clear her husband's name - so she calls her dear friend, Jane Marple. A murder is announced: When an intriguing ad in...
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An archeologist's beautiful but unpopular wife is murdered while the couple is in the Middle East excavating an historical site. At the request of local authorities, a vacationing Hercule Poirot takes on the case.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Poirot and Hastings go on holiday at a French seaside resort. The famous detective is soon recognized and is quickly drawn into a case of abduction and murder. Challenged by an arrogant French detective, Poirot stakes his reputation on his superior sluething skills.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a jury convicts James Bentley for the murder of his landlady, even the police superintendent believes they've got the wrong man. Thus, Hercule Poirot begins a search for new evidence. His friend Ariadne Oliver lends a woman's intuition to the investigation.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At the Meadowbank School, Miss Bulstrode counts girls from England's finest families among her young charges. And she treats them all as equals, even royalty like Princess Shaista of Ramat, a political refugee. After a vicious murder shocks the students and staff, Hercule Poirot delves into the school's secrets.
10) Agatha Christie
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"In the Little People, Big Dreams series, discover the lives of outstanding people from designers and artists to scientists. All of them went on to achieve incredible things, yet all of them began life as a little child with a dream. The book follows Agatha Christie, who taught herself to read at the age of five, on her journey to becoming the most famous crime writer of all time. This inspiring and informative little biography comes with extra facts...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (188 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During a round of golf on a cliff-top course in Wales, Bobby Jones discovers a man lying gravely injured on the rocks below. His last words, "Why didn't they ask Evans?," leads Bobby and his friend on a quest to find out what happened to the man.
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hercule Poirot has retired to a country village, until his neighbor is found murdered. Poirot reunites with his old partner, Chief Inspector Japp, to find the culprit, exposing a web of blackmail, envy, and murder.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hercule Poirot is a dapper detective, aboard the Orient Express, for whom murder-solving is a precise, intellectual exercise. When murder occurs, Poirot agrees to interview all aboard the famous trains Calais coach, hoping to find the killer of an American millionarie before the local police arrive.
14) Towards zero
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Publisher
Zeitgeist Video
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a family gathers at the request of an elderly matriarch, a double murder occurs and a vacationing detective takes on the job of solving the case.
16) The grand tour
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Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Now, in this fascinating travelogue of the prolific author's yearlong trip around the British Empire in 1922, Christie provides the clues to the origins of the plots and locales of some of her bestselling mystery novels. Containing never-before-published letters and photos from her travels, and filled with intriguing details about the exotic...
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Publisher
W W Norton & Co Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
544 pages ; cm.
Description
"It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A brilliant and award winning biographer, Laura Thompson now turns her sharp eye to Agatha Christie. Arguably the greatest crime writer in the world, Christie's books still sell over four million copies each year?more than thirty years after her death?and it shows no signs of slowing. But who was the woman behind these mystifying,...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 260 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An unhappily married woman looks to separate from her husband; a young man looks to find out more about the paranormal; a séance predicts sudden death and danger; a woman takes a job as a decoy for the visiting duchess, who is rumored to be the target of a potential assassination attempt; a man sets out on a road trip after hitting it big in a newspaper contest.
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