Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: MB Cooltura
ISBN: 987744903X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Five friends get together to share a delicious dinner, listen to music and dance a little. They have fun and enjoy without excesses or drunkenness. The next morning, the butler is surprised to see a large red stain on the carpet on which an old Spanish chest is resting. When he lifts the lid of the furniture, he discovers to his horror that inside is the corpse of one of the guests, Mr. Clayton, with a dagger stuck in his neck. Hercule Poirot is summoned to help the attractive Mrs. Clayton unravel this strange mystery.
The Mystery of the Spanish Chest
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: MB Cooltura
ISBN: 987744903X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Five friends get together to share a delicious dinner, listen to music and dance a little. They have fun and enjoy without excesses or drunkenness. The next morning, the butler is surprised to see a large red stain on the carpet on which an old Spanish chest is resting. When he lifts the lid of the furniture, he discovers to his horror that inside is the corpse of one of the guests, Mr. Clayton, with a dagger stuck in his neck. Hercule Poirot is summoned to help the attractive Mrs. Clayton unravel this strange mystery.
Publisher: MB Cooltura
ISBN: 987744903X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Five friends get together to share a delicious dinner, listen to music and dance a little. They have fun and enjoy without excesses or drunkenness. The next morning, the butler is surprised to see a large red stain on the carpet on which an old Spanish chest is resting. When he lifts the lid of the furniture, he discovers to his horror that inside is the corpse of one of the guests, Mr. Clayton, with a dagger stuck in his neck. Hercule Poirot is summoned to help the attractive Mrs. Clayton unravel this strange mystery.
The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006229847X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Christie’s wildly unconventional investigator, Parker Pyne, all make appearances in The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories—a riveting collection of short stories featuring a host of murderous crimes of passion, pleasure, and profit. There's a body in a trunk; a dead girl's reflection is caught in a mirror; and one corpse is back from the grave, while another is envisioned in the recurring nightmare of a terrified eccentric. What's behind such ghastly misdeeds? Try money, revenge, passion, and pleasure. With multiple motives, multiple victims, and multiple suspects, it's going to take a multitude of talent to solve these clever crimes. In this inviting collection, Agatha Christie enlists the services of her finest—Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Parker Pyne—and puts them each to the test in the most challenging cases of their careers.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006229847X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Christie’s wildly unconventional investigator, Parker Pyne, all make appearances in The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories—a riveting collection of short stories featuring a host of murderous crimes of passion, pleasure, and profit. There's a body in a trunk; a dead girl's reflection is caught in a mirror; and one corpse is back from the grave, while another is envisioned in the recurring nightmare of a terrified eccentric. What's behind such ghastly misdeeds? Try money, revenge, passion, and pleasure. With multiple motives, multiple victims, and multiple suspects, it's going to take a multitude of talent to solve these clever crimes. In this inviting collection, Agatha Christie enlists the services of her finest—Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Parker Pyne—and puts them each to the test in the most challenging cases of their careers.
The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Center Point
ISBN: 9781611739893
Category : Belgians
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this inviting collection, Agatha Christie enlists the services of her finest, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Parker Pyne, and puts them each to the test in the most challenging cases of their careers.
Publisher: Center Point
ISBN: 9781611739893
Category : Belgians
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this inviting collection, Agatha Christie enlists the services of her finest, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Parker Pyne, and puts them each to the test in the most challenging cases of their careers.
The mystery of the Baghdad chest
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
They Came to Baghdad
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312981648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Victoria is pursued by an unknown power that threatened not only her, but the fate of the entire world.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312981648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Victoria is pursued by an unknown power that threatened not only her, but the fate of the entire world.
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: MB Cooltura
ISBN: 987744836X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
An oriental prince begins an affair in London with a girl of dubious reputation, to whom he gives an emblematic ruby that disappears along with the young woman. Hercule Poirot is summoned to retrieve it. Posing as a guest at the Lacey family home, the detective will share a traditional Christmas to follow the thieves' trail until he finds the valuable jewel.
Publisher: MB Cooltura
ISBN: 987744836X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
An oriental prince begins an affair in London with a girl of dubious reputation, to whom he gives an emblematic ruby that disappears along with the young woman. Hercule Poirot is summoned to retrieve it. Posing as a guest at the Lacey family home, the detective will share a traditional Christmas to follow the thieves' trail until he finds the valuable jewel.
The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Center Point
ISBN: 9781611737691
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Brings together nine rare ... tales of murder and detection that span nearly half a century of [Christie's] storytelling [abilities]"--Back cover.
Publisher: Center Point
ISBN: 9781611737691
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Brings together nine rare ... tales of murder and detection that span nearly half a century of [Christie's] storytelling [abilities]"--Back cover.
Manx Gold
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006230285X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Previously published in the print anthology The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories. Two cousins, Fenella Mylecharane and Juan Faraker, are engaged. When their eccentric uncle dies, they eagerly return to the Isle of Man for the reading of the will. Having grown up hearing tales of buried treasure on the island, they are excited when the will reveals that their uncle found it. But where?
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006230285X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Previously published in the print anthology The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories. Two cousins, Fenella Mylecharane and Juan Faraker, are engaged. When their eccentric uncle dies, they eagerly return to the Isle of Man for the reading of the will. Having grown up hearing tales of buried treasure on the island, they are excited when the will reveals that their uncle found it. But where?
MIDWINTER MURDER: Fireside Mysteries from the Queen of Crime
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780008405489
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780008405489
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Within a Wall
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062302868
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Previously published in the print anthology The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories. Alan Everard, a successful modernist painter, is married to the beautiful society girl Isobel Loring, who eagerly promotes her husband's work. At one of her tea parties, to which she invites the London art critics, she unveils her husband's latest masterpiece—a portrait of herself. But Alan realizes the picture is lifeless. However, a sketch he has done of his daughter's godmother, Jane Haworth, is full of life and honesty. Alan soon discovers that the real contribution Jane has made to his life is not just her artistic judgment.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062302868
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Previously published in the print anthology The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories. Alan Everard, a successful modernist painter, is married to the beautiful society girl Isobel Loring, who eagerly promotes her husband's work. At one of her tea parties, to which she invites the London art critics, she unveils her husband's latest masterpiece—a portrait of herself. But Alan realizes the picture is lifeless. However, a sketch he has done of his daughter's godmother, Jane Haworth, is full of life and honesty. Alan soon discovers that the real contribution Jane has made to his life is not just her artistic judgment.