Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780396062356
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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There were two passengers in the transit lounge at Frankfurt Airport whose lives were to depend on what took place in the next thirty minutes.
Author: Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1250317150
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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A BEST BOOK OF 2021 FOR THE GUARDIAN * FINANCIAL TIMES * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT * MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE * THE TIMES Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing absurdity about flight and persecution in 1930s Germany Berlin, November 1938. Jewish shops have been ransacked and looted, synagogues destroyed. As storm troopers pound on his door, Otto Silbermann, a respected businessman who fought for Germany in the Great War, is forced to sneak out the back of his own home. Turned away from establishments he had long patronized, and fearful of being exposed as a Jew despite his Aryan looks, he boards a train. And then another. And another . . . until his flight becomes a frantic odyssey across Germany, as he searches first for information, then for help, and finally for escape. His travels bring him face-to-face with waiters and conductors, officials and fellow outcasts, seductive women and vicious thieves, a few of whom disapprove of the regime while the rest embrace it wholeheartedly. Clinging to his existence as it was just days before, Silbermann refuses to believe what is happening even as he is beset by opportunists, betrayed by associates, and bereft of family, friends, and fortune. As his world collapses around him, he is forced to concede that his nightmare is all too real. Twenty-three-year-old Ulrich Boschwitz wrote The Passenger at breakneck speed in 1938, fresh in the wake of the Kristallnacht pogroms, and his prose flies at the same pace. Taut, immediate, infused with acerbic Kafkaesque humor, The Passenger is an indelible portrait of a man and a society careening out of control.
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312981648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Victoria is pursued by an unknown power that threatened not only her, but the fate of the entire world.
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062006630
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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In Agatha Christie’s gripping international thriller Destination Unknown, a woman at the end of her rope chooses a more exciting way to die when she embarks upon an almost certain suicide mission to find a missing scientist. When a number of leading scientists disappear without a trace, concern grows within the international intelligence community. And the one woman who appears to hold the key to the mystery is dying from injuries sustained in a plane crash. Meanwhile, in a Casablanca hotel room, Hilary Craven prepares to take her own life. But her suicide attempt is about to be interrupted by a man who will offer her an altogether more thrilling way to die. . . .
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Center Point Pub
ISBN: 9781628990997
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 367
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"When the Beresfords obtain an old house and its contents, Tuppence discovers a series of underlinings in a copy of The Black Arrow. When she writes down the letters, they spell out a very disturbing message: "Mary Jordan did not die naturally." After sixty years, Mary Jordan's enemies are still ready to kill"--
Author: Margery Allingham
Publisher: Ipso Books
ISBN: 1504048784
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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A mysterious invention causes mayhem in a coastal English village—from “my very favourite of the four Queens of Crime” (J. K. Rowling). The ancient hamlet of Saltey, once the haunt of smugglers, now hides a secret rich and mysterious enough to trap all who enter . . . and someone in town is willing to terrorize, murder, and raise the very devil to keep that secret to themselves. When a transistor thought to be the key to telepathic communication is found, Albert Campion is called to sort fact from fiction. But the device at the center of the mystery is in the possession of two schoolboys, and whether they stole it or invented it, there are others who will kill to get hold of it. “Allingham has a strong, well controlled sense of humour, a power of suggesting character with a few touches and an excellent English style. She has a sense of the fantastic, and is never dull” —Times Literary Supplement
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780062094452
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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A classic from the queen of mystery: Agatha Christie.
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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After Gordon Cloade's gruesome death, his sister-in-law enlists Hercule Poirot to gather information on Rosaleen, Gordon's widow and sole heir, and her deceased first husband.
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519455123
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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The Woman and the Kenite was a little known short story which was published in a little known Italian Magazine in the 1920's. Unusually for Agatha Christie it was a horror short story which is not normally associated with the Great Author. The story was retrieved from the Italian Magazine on the 19th June 2013 and is only 9 pages in length. In normal circumstances, nine pages is not enough to justify a printed version of this little known and recently discovered Agatha Christie work. This book attempts to celebrate the fact that a 'new' work by the Great Author has been discovered and the fact that it can be classified as a horror short story adds to what we know about the Great Lady. The book gives some background to the story in addition to faithfully reproducing the actual Italian translation from the magazine. The English translation follows and the ends with further reference to ensure a full understanding of the story.
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN: 9780396091646
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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The casual encounter of a young woman and Sir Stafford Nye, diplomat, on a Trans-European passenger flight to London was to lead them to strange and unexpected places, and into a maze of conspiracy, plotting, and danger.
