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Dieser Band enthält - links englisch, rechts deutsch - drei Erzählungen von Klassikern der englischen Kiminal-Literatur: Edgar Wallace, Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers. Ob die Spannung durch ein einfaches Rezept oder durch ein raffiniertes Know how erzeugt wird - gleichviel: spannend sind die Geschichten!

Una acaudalada viuda, Emily Inglethorp, ha contraído matrimonio con un hombre veinte años más joven. Sus familiares ven en él a un cazafortunas que trata de arrebatarles la herencia. Una noche la naciana muere tras terribles convulsiones y se demuestra que ha sido envenenada con estricnina.El misterioso caso de Styles es el primer libro de Agatha Christie, escrito en 1920 mientras colaboraba en una farmacia de la Cruz Roja durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, lo que le proporciono grandes conocimientos sobre diversos venenos. Este libro presenta a tres de sus mas relevantes personajes, Poirot, Hastings, su fiel amigo y ayudante, y el Inspector Japp.

Miss Marple's first case is adapted into the first Miss Marple comic book in this long-awaited adaptation of one of Agatha Christie's most famous novels. Nothing ever happens in the peaceful village of St Mary Mead. So it seems almost incredible when Colonel Protheroe is discovered shot through the head in the vicarage study. Unfortunately for the murderer, there is someone in the village who knows everything, sees everything and hears everything - and she intends to work out who killed the Colonel. Her name is Miss Marple! The Murder at the Vicarage was the book that introduced Miss Marple to the world. Loosely based on Agatha Christie's own grandmother, this charming but suspicious old lady was to become the world's most famous amateur sleuth, and is brought to life in this graphic adaptation by the artist Norbert Morandiere, known internationally as 'Norma'. Famed for her crime masterpieces, Agatha Christie's books have become the best-selling in the world, appealing to readers young and old for their ingenious plots and immediately recognizable characters.The stories have also transcended the printed page, become bestselling audiobooks and award-winning films, plays and television series. Now words and pictures combine in an exciting new way of telling these stories -- full-colour graphic novels which enhance the original stories and offer a completely new way of enjoying some of the world's most popular and exciting mysteries.

June Whitfield is Miss Marple once again in this Agatha Christie story. In Sleeping Murder, Miss Marple is called in to solve a 'perfect crime' committed many years before.

Un compendio de dieciocho relatos de las aventuras del famoso y peculiar detective belga. Desde "La caja de bombones" con un Poirot todavía residente en Belgica, y por tanto, en la cronoficción, anterior a la Primera Guerra Mundial, pasando por un circulo de narraciones de la primera etapa londinense hasta otros casos de epoca posterior, cuando ya famoso, dispone de la eficiente y perfeccionista secretaria, Miss Lemon.

<;em:GT;Tres ratones ciegos,lt;/em:gt; cl:amp;aacute;sico thriller de lt;strong:gt;Agatha Christielt;/strong:gt; escrito en 1952 y llevado al teatro con gran :amp;eacute;xito, narra una extraordinaria secuencia de cr:amp;iacute;menes que tienen lugar en una casa de hu:amp;eacute;spedes de estilo victoriano. En una fr:amp;iacute;a noche de invierno, van llegando a la mansi:amp;oacute;n los inquietantes inquilinos que van a pasar un fin de semana en ella. Ante la muerte de uno de ellos, llega la polic:amp;iacute;a y mediante su interrogatorio hace que la casa se convierta en una ratonera.

Edición especial limirada para conmemorar el 70 aniversario de la publicación de este clásico de novela de misterio.

<;em:GT;La Ratoneralt;/em:gt; es posiblemente la obra m:amp;aacute;s famosa de lt;strong:gt;Agatha Chritielt;/strong:gt;, por la obra de teatro m:amp;aacute;s representada de todos los tiempos; lleve en cartel desde 1952 en Londres, con m:amp;aacute;s de 23.000 representaciones. La obra es tambi:amp;eacute;n conocida por su inesperado final, llegado el cual se pide a los asistentes a la obra que no sea revelado. Agatha Christie cedi:amp;oacute; los derechos de la obra a su nieto Mathew Prichard como regalo de cumplea:amp;ntilde;os, creando el primer millonario de la familia.

Ariadne Oliver está de visita en casa de su amiga Judith Butler. La casa hierve de actividad, pues se prepara una fiesta de Halloween y hay que organizar diversos juegos, como el de pescar manzanas con la boca en una palangana llena de agua. Nadie tiene tiempo o ganas de prestar atencion a Joyce, una pequeña que afirma haber presenciado un asesinato; el anuncio se toma como el invento de una mente muy imaginativa, para no decir mentirosa, que es la fama que persigue a Joyce. Pero poco tiempo pasara antes de que la propia Joyce aparezca muerta, con la cabeza metida en la palangana, y tenga que intervenir Hercule Poirot a resolver el caso.

A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passeneger plane...From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman.

Hercule Poirot has to solve a fiendishly clever murder mystery in this newly adapted full-colour comic strip adventure. Famed for her crime masterpieces, Agatha Christie's books have become the best-selling in the world, appealing to readers young and old for their ingenious plots and immediately recognizable characters. The stories have also transcended the printed page, become bestselling audiobooks and award-winning films, plays and television series. Now words and pictures combine in an exciting new way of telling these stories -- full-colour graphic novels which enhance the original stories and offer a completely new way of enjoying some of the world's most popular and exciting mysteries. Roger Ackroyd knows too much. He knows that the woman he loves poisoned her brutal first husband. He also suspects that someone has been blackmailing her. Now, tragically, the news has come that she has taken her own life with a drug overdose. But the evening post brings Roger one last fatal scrap of information. Unfortunately, before he can finish reading it, he is stabbed to death!

Poirot searches out a murder on a French golf course in a stylish new comic book adaptation. An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course. But why is the dead man wearing his son's overcoat? And who was the impassioned love-letter in the pocket for? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identically murdered corpse! Famed for her crime masterpieces, Agatha Christie's books have become the best-selling in the world, appealing to readers young and old for their ingenious plots and immediately recognizable characters. The stories have also transcended the printed page, become bestselling audiobooks and award-winning films, plays and television series. Now words and pictures combine in an exciting new way of telling these stories -- full-colour graphic novels which enhance the original stories and offer a completely new way of enjoying some of the world's most popular and exciting mysteries.

Agatha Christie's world-famous serial killer mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. There's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way through the alphabet. And as a macabre calling card he leaves beside each victim's corpe the ABC Railway Guide open at the name of the town where the murder has taken place. Having begun with Andover, Bexhill and then Churston, there seems little chance of the murderer being caught -- until he makes the crucial and vain mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot ...

Linnet Rideway es una joven agraciada y millonaria que lo posee todo. Su amiga, Jacqueline de Bellefort, no menos hermosa aunque pobre, sólo tiene amor de su prometido Simon Doyle. Sin embargo, Simon acaba casándose con Linnet. El nuevo matrimonio inicia un crucero por el Nilo a bordo de Karnak y durante el viaje, que habría de haber sido el mejor viaje de su vida, Linnet muere asesinada. Tras su asesinato se suceden otros que serán investigados por Hercule Poirot, que viaja en el mismo crucero.