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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
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c2005
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5 CDs (6 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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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...
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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.
12) 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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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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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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Soon to be a limited streaming series starring Anna Chancellor and Bill NighyConsidered by critics the one of the best of Agatha Christie's later novels, and a personal favorite for Christie herself, Ordeal by Innocence is a psychological thriller involving crimes from both past and present. According to the courts, Jacko Argyle bludgeoned his mother to death with a poker. The sentence was life imprisonment. But when Dr. Arthur Calgary arrives with...
20) The essential Agatha Christie stories: [Agatha Christie's best sleuths crack twenty famous cases]
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BBC Audiobooks America
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c2009
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12 sound discs (15 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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