The curious disappearance of Lord Listerdale; a newlyweds fear of her ex-fiance; a strange encounter on a train; a domestic-murder investigation; a wild mans sudden personality change; a retired inspectors hunt for a murderess; a young womans impersonation of a duchess; a necklace hidden in a basket of cherries; a mystery writers arrest for murder; an astonishing marriage proposal; a sopranos hatred of a baritone; the case of the rajahs emerald.
Doce relatos cortos de Agatha Christie, la Reina del Crimen, en los que compiten en sagacidad Poirot y miss Marple. Además, pequeñas obras maestras en los que la autora va más allá de lo misterioso, para penetrar en el campo de lo esotérico y paranormal.
Hastings, amigo y colaborador de Poirot conoce, en el tren de París, a una peculiar muchacha de exótico lenguaje. Al día siguiente desayunando con Poirot en Londres, reciben una carta de un famoso millonario francés que rompe su tranquilidad.
'¿Qué le parece si formásemos un club? Lo llamaremos el Club de los Martes. Nos reuniremos y cada uno deberá exponer un problema real y los demás competiremos para solucionarlo'. A partir de esta conversación nacen trece magníficas historias policíacas.
Tras los famosos casos de Styles y del Campo de Golf, la fama de Poirot crece día a día, llegando a convertirse en el detective predilecto de la buena sociedad británica. A esta época pertenecen estos relatos, como 'La aventura de la tumba egipcia'.
Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property, they have inherited some worthless bric-a-brac, including a collection of antique books. While rustling through a copy of The Black Arrow, Tuppence comes upon a series of apparently random underlinings. However, when she writes down the letters, they spell out a very disturbing message: M a r y – J o r d a n – d i d – n o t – d i e – n a t u r a l l y…
Le crime de l'Orient-Express Par le plus grand des hasards, Hercule Poirot se trouve dans la voiture de l'Orient-Express - ce train de luxe qui traverse l'Europe - où un crime féroce a été commis. Une des plus difficiles et des plus délicates enquêtes commence pour le fameux détective belge. Autour de ce cadavre, trop de suspects, trop d'alibis.
Poirot se encuentra en Estambul. Es pleno invierno y decide tomar el Orient Express. Cuando despierta en su coche-cama, una tormenta de nieve ha detenido el tren y un norteamericano ha sido salvajemente apuñalado. El asesino aún se encuentra en el tren...
Agatha Christies most exotic murder mystery in a sumptuous hardback Special Edition.The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything until she lost her life.Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: Id like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger. Yet in this exotic setting nothing is ever quite what it seems
Les dix invités sont arrivés sur l'île du Nègre, mais rien ne semble normal : leur hôte est absent et quelqu'un a déposé dans leur chambre une comptine intitulée Les dix petits Nègres. Tout bascule quand une voix accuse chacun des invités d'un crime. Avec la couverture de la première édition parue dans la collection en 1940.
A wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place…The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara , Nurse Craven, Colonel Luttrell and his charming wife, Daisy, and the charismatic Boyd-Carrington.So Hastings was shocked to learn from Hercule Poirot's declaration that one of them was a five-times murderer. True, the ageing detective was crippled with arthritis, but had his deductive instincts finally deserted him?
Agatha Christie's famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to `get rid of' her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead. And yet the great Belgian detective couldn't help feeling that he was being taken for a ride.After all, how could Jane have stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? And what could be her motive now that the aristocrat had finally granted her a divorce?
