By: Agatha Christie
When a sudden murder shatters the peaceful atmosphere of the Bertram Hotel, Miss Marple springs into action to crack a crime syndicate and unmask a killer. Reprint.
By: Agatha Christie
With World War II at an end, Charles Hayward is finally free to marry the woman he loves, Sophia Leonides. However, she refuses - the unexplained death of her grandfather, wealthy businessman Aristide Leonides, draws her back to the suffocating...
By: Agatha Christie
Mrs. McGinty is dead and everyone suspects James Bentley, her slightly shifty lodger. In fact, James is facing a trial for an almost certain open-and-shut case. But Superintendent Spence is suspicious enough to ask for Hercule Poirot's assistance....
By: Agatha Christie
When Richard Abernethie, the master of Enderby Hall, dies his heirs assemble at the vast Victorian mansion to hear the reading of the will. It is then that Cora, Abernethie's sister, comes out with an alarming proposal: 'But he was murdered, wasn't...
By: Agatha Christie
From Crime's Grande Dame, a Wonderful New Poirot Mystery Set Amid a Girls' School! In a palace in Ramat, a prince entrusts a packet of jewels to his pilot, in the hope that he can smuggle them to England. But before the packet reaches its...
By: Agatha Christie
An urgent cry for help brings Hercule Poirot to France, but he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face down in a shallow grave on a golf course. But why is the dead man wearing his son's overcoat? And who was...
By: Agatha Christie
A brilliant spy story by the queen of mystery. To help the British war effort in 1940, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford take on assumed identities to uncover Nazi informers who have infiltrated British armed forces and intelligence. They set an elaborate...
By: Agatha Christie
Despite her best efforts, Gwenda is unable to modernize her new home. Worse still, she feels an irrational fear every time she climbs the stairs. With Miss Marple helping to exorcise the ghosts, the two women uncover a crime committed years ago. June...
By: Agatha Christie
Indomitable detective Hercule Poirot is pitted against three cunning killers in a collection featuring "The Dream," "Four and Twenty Blackbirds," and the title story. Read by Hugh Fraser.
By: Agatha Christie
When Hercule Poirot accepts an invitation to an evening of dinner and cards, he’s aware that four of the other guests are murderers. During the course of the evening, one of them strikes and Poirot must ascertain who would have the gall to...
By: Agatha Christie
Aboard a plane, a woman dies in her seat, apparently the victim of a wasp sting. Then, a venom-tipped dart from a South American blowgun is found in the aisle. Everyone is suspect, including Hercule Poirot, who was sitting a mere fifteen feet from...
By: Agatha Christie
A Classic Agatha Christie Tommy & Tuppence Mystery, Now Available on CD! Sleuth Tuppence Beresford suspects that something wicked is responsible for the death of one woman and the disappearance of another. When she investigates, clues pile up,...
By: Agatha Christie
When Rex Fortescue falls dead after taking a sip of his midday tea, it is obvious to most that his drink was poisoned. But when rye is found in one of his pockets, the reasons are not so obvious. Miss Marple must dissect an old nursery rhyme to solve...
By: Agatha Christie
Mr. Treves, a well-known and respected criminologist, theorizes that murder mysteries are most effective when the murder takes place at the very end of the novel, at "the zero hour." Unfortunately for Mr. Treves, on this matter he may be...
By: Agatha Christie
This carefully crafted novel is perhaps the strongest proof that Agatha Christie was a gifted writer as well as a shrewd storyteller. It is the story of a woman's attempt to clear her mother's name 16 years after the mother was convicted of killing...
By: Agatha Christie
Secretary-for-hire Sheila Webb thinks it's business as usual when she is called out to a client's home, until she comes across a dead body surrounded by incorrectly-set clocks in the parlor. Supersleuth Hercule Poirot takes on this bizarre case.
By: Agatha Christie
A priest's death leads to sinister goings-on in an old country pub...To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning? Was it the savage blow to...
By: Agatha Christie
For several years, Agatha Christie and her husband lived in Baghdad. Her keen observations there helped frame the setting for They Came to Baghdad, a story about Victoria Jones, an incurable romantic who meets a handsome man in the park with whom she...
By: Agatha Christie
A proper English girl keen for adventure, Anne Beddingfield gets much more than she had bargained for during a luxury cruise when she winds up at the center of a mystery involving a murdered ballerina and a missing set of jewels. Read by Emilia Fox....
By: Agatha Christie
Young, beautiful, and rich, Linnet Doyle sparks the interest of Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot when she and her new husband take a cruise on the same ship as he, and he senses trouble in paradise. Read by David Suchet. Book available.
By: Agatha Christie
Superintendent Battle is often given the most dangerous political cases, though his powerful physique and impassive expression often lead people to underestimate his sleuthing instincts. In The Secret of Chimneys, he is called in to investigate a...
By: Agatha Christie
Moments after Hercule Poirot leaves his dentist, Mr. Morley, the poor man is found dead with a bullet hole in his head. That he committed suicide is apparent to all, except, of course, to Poirot, who immediately suspects foul play.
By: Agatha Christie
Ostensibly retired, Hercule Poirot investigates a sensational news story and an international secret in this pairing of mysteries.
By: Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot arrives at The Hollow for a weekend luncheon just in time to see Gerda Christow standing, revolver in hand, over the body of her husband. It seems obvious that she has killed her wayward spouse, but Poirot doesn't believe things are...
By: Agatha Christie
Jacko is convicted of his mother's murder and dies in prison. Two years later, a stranger arrives to confirm Jacko's disbelieved alibi. But if Jacko wasn't guilty, who is? Each family member becomes detective, suspect, and potential victim.
By: Agatha Christie
A spellbinding collection of short stories features three of Christie's top sleuths, Harley Quin, Mr. Parker Pyne, and Hercule Poirot, and includes "The Love Detectives," a tale about a murder in a library with not one, but two, confessed...
By: Agatha Christie
Roger Ackroyd has waited the required year after Mrs. Ferrars’ husband died to ask for her hand in marriage. However, Mrs. Ferrars announces that she cannot marry him and tells him a secret that is the reason for her refusal. Shortly thereafter...
By: Agatha Christie
A BBC Radio full-cast dramatization starring June Whitfield as Miss Marple, the deceptively mild spinster sleuth. Wealthy businessman Rex Fortescue is found dead with rye grain in his pocket. His death is followed in quick succession by a woman dying...
By: Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot's vacation in the Holy Land is interrupted by death in Petra, where the lifeless body of Mrs. Boynton, a detestable English woman who cowed her family and strangers alike, is found atop the rose red cliffs. Though her family claims her...
By: Agatha Christie
The murder of Colonel Protheroe is a shock to everyone in St. Mary Mead, though hardly an unpleasant one. Now the vicar, who had declared that killing the detested Protheroe would be a service to the world, could be considered a suspect. And what...