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"Look out for Andover on the 21st of the month..." The letter disturbed Poirot greatly. It was written by a killer in deadly earnest. Sure enough, a Mrs Ascher was murdered at Andover on the due date. A second letter announced a murder at Bexhill. The victim was Betty Barnard. And a third, at Churston - Sir Carmichael Clarke...followed by a fourth at Doncaster...Beside each corpse lay a copy of the ABC Railway Guide, open at the relevant page. Poirot is tested by the sinister logic of the ABC Murders. -
A Caribbean Mystery: Dozing in the West Indian sun, an old soldier talks of safaris and scandals. After hinting that he has knowledge of a murder and showing a photograph, he is found dead - providing a most exotic case for Miss Marple. Sleeping Murder: Soon after Gwenda moves into her new home, odd things start to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeds in dredging up its past. And she feels an irrational sense of terror every time she climbs the stairs. Gwenda turns to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Have they dredged up a “perfect” crime committed many years before? 4.50 From Paddington: For an instant the two trains ran together, going in the same direction side by side. In that moment, Elspeth, riding in the one train, witnessed a murder in the other. Helplessly, she stared out her carriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip around a woman’s throat. The body crumpled....then the other train drew away. But who, apart from Miss Marple, would take her story seriously? After all, there were no suspects, no other witnesses... and no corpse! At Bertram's Hotel: An old-fashioned London Hotel is not quite as reputable as it seems… When Miss Marple comes to London for a holiday, she finds what she’s looking for at Bertram’s Hotel: traditional decor, impeccable service... and an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer. Yet not even Miss Marple can foresee the violent chain of events set in motion when an eccentric guest makes his way to the airport on the wrong day… -
It’s seven in the morning...and the Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. 'Do you mean to tell me,' demanded Colonel Bantry, 'that there is a body in my library - my library?' She is wearing evening dress and heavy make-up, which is now smeared across her cheeks. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is the connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry? The respectable Bantrys invite Miss Marple to solve the mystery… before tongues start to wag. Cover art by Tom Adams. -
The house at Wilbraham Crescent - such a nice house, net curtains and all. Yet a man had been killed there - with a kitchen knife. Mesmerised by the people swirling around her, she stared and ceased to think. A voice spoke in her ear and she turned her head in surprised recognition. And two minutes later she was dead...Cover art by Tom Adams.
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The Hollow: Agatha Christie
$10.00Hercule Poirot finds it disagreeable to have to take his aperitif outside on a wind-swept autumn day. He dislikes even more the staged drama of a young man lying artistically at the pool's edge, the middle-aged woman with a revolver and the red paint dripping into the water. This was not the entertainment for lunch at an English country house...especially when the careful display was ruined. Poirot was looking at a man who, if not dead, was at least dying... -
A collection of short stories: The Hound Of Death; The Red Signal: An omen from the 'other side' unmasks a killer. The Fourth Man; The Gipsy; The Lamp; Wireless; The Witness For The Prosecution - an innocent man faces the gallows, sent there by his own wife. The Mystery Of The Blue Jar; The Strange Case Of Sir Arthur Carmichael; The Call Of Wings; The Last Séance; S.O.S: A haunted house conceals an evil that is totally human. Cover art by Tom Adams. -
At a dinner party, another guest compares the labors of Poirot to those of Hercules, and the little Belgian is not amused. He has already decided to retire, but makes up his mind to take on 12 great cases - each somehow reflecting the labors accomplished by Hercules - as a farewell to crime solving. All of the cases are quite different from each other, from searching for a lost poet to hunting down a particularly ferocious murderer, from solving mysterious deaths of religious cult members to saving a young would-be politician from potential blackmailers. Chapters: The Nemean Lion; The Lernean Hydra; The Arcadian Deer; The Erymanthian Boar; The Augean Stables; The Stymphalean Birds; The Cretan Bull; The Horses Of Diomedes; The Girdle of Hyppolita; The Flock Of Geryon; The Apples Of The Hesperides; The Capture Of Cerberus. -
A volume of short stories: The Listerdale Mystery; Philomel Cottage; The Girl in the Train; Sing a Song of Sixpence; The Manhood of Edward Robinson; Accident; Jane in Search of a Job; A Fruitful Sunday; Mr. Eastwood's Adventure; The Golden Ball; The Rajah's Emerald and Swan Song. -
Anne Beddingfeld, recently orphaned, longs to live an adventurous life in London. On her way home from an unsuccessful job interview, she witnesses a man falling onto the live subway tracks, dying instantly. Was it an accident? Anne believes the examination of the dead man by a convenient on-the-scene doctor is suspicious and when she finds out that the dead man carried a house agent's order to view Mill House where another murder has just been committed, her investigations get her involved in a world of diamond thieves, murderers, and political intrigue.
