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Contents: Preface, The Secret Adversary, and The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

A foggy night... a lonely country house... and a woman with a gun in her hand quietly surveying the dead body of her husband. It looked like a straightforward case of murder. Or was it? As the ghosts of an old wrong begin to emerge from the past, the case begins to look anything but...

A personal advertisement written in code attracts the attention of Tuppence Beresford. When Tuppence suspects that the code involves the Three Arts Ball, she persuades Tommy to attend dressed in costume. Tuppence's suspicions prove to be correct when a murder takes place, but as all of the...

The Definitive Detective Collection brings together the finest deductive minds in fiction. Join Edgar Allan Poe's Auguste Dupin as he invents the detective genre in the mid-1800s, and follow the logical clues to the most famous detectives ever committed to paper, Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, in London. Along the way you'll also meet Josephine Tey's formiddable Inspector Alan Grant, as-well as G. K. Chesterton's beloved Father Brown, and the more modern creations of Miss Marple, Lord Peter Wimsey, and Sam Spade as they solve crimes in wondorously inventive and ingenious ways.

Meet Mr. Quin: charming, enigmatic, and always just a step ahead. In this collection of intriguing short stories, the mysterious Mr. Quin appears at the most unexpected moments, guiding his friend, the astute Hercule Poirot-like detective, Mr. Satterthwaite, to solve puzzles that defy logic. With every twist, every riddle, and every chance encounter, Mr. Quin leaves more questions than answers—but his uncanny ability to reveal the truth makes him the most fascinating puzzle of all.

Upon finding a mysterious note at the scene of an accident, spunky Ann Beddingfeld throws caution to the wind and sets sail for an adventure to South Africa. She gets more thrills than she bargained for when she finds herself embroiled in a crooked diamond scheme, a murder, and in the clutches of the mysterious “Colonel".

The Argyle family is far from pleased to discover one of its number has been post-humously pardoned for murder – if Jacko Argyle didn’t kill his mother, who did? The front door of the family home was locked… According to the courts, Jacko Argyle bludgeoned his mother to death with a poker...

A classic Marple mystery, read by the inimitable Richard E. Grant. Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his ‘counting house' when he suffered an agonising and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain traces of cereals. Yet, it was the incident in the parlour which confirmed Jane Marple's suspicion that here she was looking at a case of crime by rhyme.

Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, read by the inimitable Dan Stevens. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer - in case he or she decides to strike again.

Die große Miss-Marple-Kurzgeschichtensammlung Teil 1. Miss Marple verblüfft alle beim berühmten Dienstagaben-Club: Ob verschwundene Goldbarren gefunden werden müssen oder ein sterbender Mann und seine letzte Botschaft entschlüsselt werden sollen, Miss Marple ist allen eine Nasenlänge voraus. Enthält: "Der Dienstagabend-Club", "Der Tempel der Astarte", "Die verschwundenen Goldbarren", "Der rote Badeanzug", "Die überlistete Spiritistin", "Der Daumenabdruck des heiligen Petrus" und "Die blaue Geranie".

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter...

In Agatha Christie’s short story, “The Double Clue,” Poirot investigates the robbery of a collection of medieval jewelry from the safe of a dealer. Since the theft occurred during a dinner party, the suspects could be any of the guests. But which one? This short story originally appeared in the December 5, 1923 issue of The Sketch magazine.

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter...

Anthony Cade acepta entregar unas memorias en Londres, sin saber que se verá envuelto en una red de intrigas, persecuciones y asesinatos. Todo lo conduce a Chimneys, una antigua mansión donde secretos del pasado resurgen con fuerza. Entre documentos comprometidos, identidades ocultas y peligros inesperados, Anthony deberá resolver el misterio que esconde la casa... antes de que sea demasiado tarde.

¿Qué relación hay entre un intento de suicidio fallido, una acusación de robo injusta contra una alumna y la vida sentimental de un famoso tenista? Cuando se celebra una fiesta en Gull's Point, la casa costera de una anciana viuda, los acontecimientos anteriores alcanzan un punto dramático. Como descubre el superintendente Battle, todo forma parte de un plan cuidadosamente trazado… para cometer un asesinato.

Hercule Poirot returns in another brilliant murder mystery that can only be solved by the eponymous Belgian detective and his ‘little grey cells’. ‘What I intend to say to you will come as a shock . . .’ Lady Athelinda Playford has planned a house party at her mansion in Clonakilty...

This audiobook is based on literature that was written in a past cultural or historical context, and includes language and depictions of people or cultures that are considered offensive to listeners. Please keep this in mind when deciding if, how and when you’ll listen. The third book in Agatha Christie's famous detective series takes listeners on an exciting journey through a collection of Poirot's trickiest cases. From finding the Prime Minister to solving a bank robbery, these 11 cases illustrate why Poirot is still considered one of the greatest literary detectives of all time.

Thirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actor's house. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, went into convulsions and died. But when his martini glass was sent for chemical analysis, there was no trace of poison, just as Poirot had predicted. Even more troubling for the great detective, there was absolutely no motive.

A classic Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories. Mystery writer Anthony Eastwood is lured to the crime scene of a faked murder, where two individuals masquerading as police officers arrest him and charge him for murder. As the phony...

Dopo cinquantacinque anni l'anziano Hercule Poirot torna a Styles Court, il luogo in cui aveva risolto il suo primo famoso caso di omicidio, ora trasformato in una raffinata pensione. E qui incontra il vecchio amico, il capitano Hastings, per rivelargli che tra gli ospiti si nasconde un assassino. Infatti, a dimostrare la tesi di Poirot, Styles Court viene funestata da un nuovo delitto, un omicidio così misterioso da far sospettare di tutti, persino della figlia di Hastings.