Agatha Christie
21) Sleeping murder
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Jane Marple murder mysteries volume 17
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Although Gwenda and Giles Reed are determined to solve a macabre puzzle involving a hauntingly familiar Victorian villa and a terrifying vision of a strangled woman, Miss Jane Marple advises them not to uncover a long unreported murder.
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The ingredients of this mystery plot run all the way from the fancies of some old ladies in a home for the elderly, to dark hints at child murder, the machinations of a clever criminal gang, and the secret life of a supposedly peaceful English village ... (Solved by) the husband-and-wife team of Tuppence and Tommy Beresford.
26) Remembered death
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1985, c1943
Physical Desc
215 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
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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Miss Marple encounters a compelling murder mystery in St. Mary Mead, where under the seemingly peaceful exterior of an English country village lurks intrigue, guilt, deception, and death. Colonel Protheroe, local magistrate and overbearing landowner is the most detested man in the village. Everyone—even in the vicar—wishes he were dead. And very soon he is—shot in the head in the vicar’s own study. Faced with a surfeit of suspects, only the...
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Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
[1986], c1933
Physical Desc
vii, 273 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
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.
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Everyone thinks it's a charming joke when the ad in the St. Mary Mead Gazette announces an upcoming murder at Little Paddocks. But it's no joke when someone turns up dead. To listeners' delight, Miss Marple becomes involved,and the spinster with the china-blue eyes proves herself once again to be a gifted detective.
33) Death in the air
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Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1984, c1935
Physical Desc
230 p. : diagram.
Description
Poirot is on a flight from Paris to London when a woman is found to have died during the flight. She was apparently murdered with a blowgun dart poisoned with snake venom. All of the passengers are under suspicion even though it seems no one came near the victim.
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Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 25
Publisher
HarperCollins ; Audio Partners
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
5 CDs (6 hr. 8 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 24
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
5 CDs (6.25 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.