Agatha Christie
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Published in January 1922, "The Secret Adversary" is the second detective fiction novel by British crime novelist Agatha Christie. The book introduces the characters of Tommy Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley, two out-of work twenty-somethings in post-war London. The two agree to form "The Young Adventurers, Ltd" company, hiring themselves out with the slogan "no unreasonable offer refused". They are quickly enlisted to solve the mysterious...
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The tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything...until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: "I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger." Yet under the searing heat of the Egyptian sun, nothing is ever quite what...
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A serial killer is in the loose, and Hercule Poirot will travel the length and breadth of England to track this ruthless killer. A is for Ascher, cudgeled in Andover, B is for Benard, strangled in Bexhill, C is for Clarke, struck down in Churston. Beside each body is an A.B.C. Railway guide, before each murder Hercule Poirot is notified. In one of Christie's most twisted tales, the meticulous Belgian sleuth must navigate the eerie maze of a serial...
7) Towards Zero
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All evidence pointed in one direction-even a child could follow the clues. But it was too neat.
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When a Halloween party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murderer. Joyce, a hostile thirteen-year-old, boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the "evil presence." But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double murderer...
10) The hollow
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Hercule Poirot was enjoying a weekend holiday at an English manor until he discovered a corpse by the swimming pool.
11) Sleeping murder
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Gwenda Reed's new home, a charming Victorian villa, is giving the lovely new bride the strangest feeling of déjà vu - and an unnatural dread that's taking its toll. Perhaps her husband's aunt, Miss Marple, can calm the young woman's frayed nerves.
14) Easy to kill
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Fitzwilliam, recently retired from a police career in Asia, by chance meets a lady on the train to London. He dismisses her talk of a murder as nonsense, until he reads of her death in the paper the next morning.
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Agatha Christie's `most absorbing mystery' to mark the 25th anniversary of her death. Agatha Christie died on 12 January 1976, having become the best-selling novelist in history. Her autobiography, published in 1977 a year after her death, tells of her fascinating private life, from early childhood through two marriages and two World Wars, and her experiences both as a writer and on archaeological expeditions with her second husband, Max Mallowan....