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Set in the summer of 1917, the story follows the war-wounded Hastings to the Styles St. Mary estate of his friend John Cavendish. The Cavendish household is wrought with tension due to the marriage of John's widowed mother to a suspicious younger man. In the village, Hastings runs into his old friend Hercule Poirot and, when the estate's trouble turns deadly, the friends unite to solve a most baffling case.
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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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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 27
Pub. Date
c2005
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5 CDs (6 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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BBC Audiobooks America
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[2010], p2002
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6 sound discs (7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Three single girls share a London flat. The first works as a secretary; the second is an artist; the third, who comes to Poirot for help, disappears believing she is a murderer. There are rumors of revolvers, flick-knives, and blood stains. But, without hard evidence, it will take all Poirot's tenacity to establish whether the third girl is guilty, innocent or insane.
11) The clocks
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 30
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Chivers Audio Books
Pub. Date
2004
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6 CDs (7 hrs, 17 mins.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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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.
17) The big four
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"Framed in the doorway of Hercule Poirot's bedroom stands an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man stares for a moment, then he sways and falls. Who is he? Is he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what is 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--and that of his 'twin brother'--to uncover...
18) Curtain
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 34
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Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
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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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 2
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Hercule Poirot rushes to France in response to an urgent and cryptic plea from a client. But the Belgian detective arrives just too late: the man who had summoned him is found dead on a golf course, stabbed in the back with a letter opener and wearing an ill-fitting coat with a mysterious love letter in its pocket. Strange circumstances multiply, culminating in the discovery of a second body stabbed with the same murder weapon. While the local authorities...
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Murder is part of the curriculum at an exclusive school for girls in Agatha Christie's Cat Among the Pigeons, as the intrepid Poirot sets out to bring a stealthy killer to justice.
Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of an unpopular games mistress-shot through the heart point-blank.
The school is...
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