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New Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
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...
43) 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...
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Elinor Carlisle has been accused of killing her wealthy Aunt and a rival in love. When Poirot comes to the case he quickly finds motive, opportunity and means for Elinor to have done the double murder. But a tidy package is not enough to satisfy Poirot's curiosity, and he eventually pieces together an entirely different picture of what really happened in a case that appeared to be cut and dried.
47) Curtain
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 34
Publisher
Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
c1975
Physical Desc
238 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
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...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2003], c1993.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The adventure of the Egyptian tomb: After an archeological dig turns deadly, Poirot must distinguish between ordinary evil and an other-worldly curse. The underdog: Hasting's passion for golf, and Poirot's for art, lead them to the scene of a baffling murder. Yellow Iris: The death of a British heiress haunts Poirot for two years before he has a chance to confront her killer.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (282 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Match wits with Poirot in a mystery involving a country-house game of murder turned real (Dead man's folly); a movie star turned amateur detective (Murder in three acts); and, a dinner party turned deadly (Thirteen at dinner).
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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...
Series
Agatha Christie's Poirot the movie collection volume set 2
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.
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