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Black Coffee
Автор: Agatha Christie Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Год: 1999 Страниц: 290 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20092001-07-24
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«Nearly a quarter-century after her death, Agatha Christie remains the most popular mystery writer of all time. Now, in a celebrated publishing event, fans and newcomers alike are treated to another Christie novel. Created in 1930 as a stage play and faithfully adapted by Charles Osborne, Black Coffee brings back beloved detective Hercule Poirot to exercise his «little grey cells» one more deliciously deductive time... An urgent call from physicist Sir Claud Amory sends famed detective Hercule Poirot rushing from London to a sprawling country estate. Sir Claud fears a member of his own household wants to steal a secret formula destined for the Ministry of Defense. But Poirot arrives too late. The formula is missing. Worse, Sir Claud has been poisoned by his after-dinner coffee. Poirot soon identifies a potent brew of despair, treachery, and deception amid the mansion's occupants. Now he must find the formula and the killer...while letting no poison slip 'twix his low lips.»
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The Seven Dials Mystery
Автор: Agatha Christie Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Год: 2001 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20092003-05-22
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«Reclusive tycoon Sir Oswald Coote and his melancholy wife, Lady Coote, have hit upon the ideal plan to spice up their quiet lives. They'll host a lavish weekend party at Chimneys. their isolated estate, and invite only «bright young things». But the festive mood is clouded by doom. A practical joke involving seven clocks and a sleeping guest has ended in accidental death — and cause for alarm. For the guests may not be all that they appear. And as whispers of a strange club called Seven Dials echo through the halls of Chimneys, all hands will be pointing to murder...»
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Sparkling Cyanide
Автор: Agatha Christie Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Год: 2001 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20092003-05-22
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It's been less than a year since beautiful heiress Rosemary Barton took her own life during a birthday dinner in her honor. Her husband George never believed that his fun-loving wife would commit suicide--especially now that he's received two anonymous letters that suggest cold-blooded murder. One implicates even George himself. It's true he long suffered Rosemary's infidelities. But what about her embittered sister who was left out of the family will? Or any of Rosemary's secret lovers, not to mention their betrayed wives? Now one of them has ever forgotten Rosemary. Nor has any one of them ever forgiven her. But only one of them killed her...
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The Unexpected Guest
Автор: Agatha Christie Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Год: 2000 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20092002-05-12
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«Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time with her works outsold only by Shakespeare and the Bible. She is regarded by generations of fans as the greatest mystery writer ever, and her novels are read and cherished the world over. Clarissa, the young wife of a Foreign Office Diplomat, delights in tweaking the sensibilities of her more serious friends and for playing a game she calls «supposing» — imagining a difficult situation and figuring out how people would respond. But Clarissa's lighthearted game becomes deadly serious when she discovers the dead body of an unknown person in her own drawing room. If that wasn't bad enough, her husband is on the way home with an important foreign politician and the attendant scandal of the dead body would irrevocably damage his career at the very least. Therefore, Clarissa decides to dispose of the body and persuades her three houseguests to help. But before she can get the body off the premises, a policeman arrives at her front door. The police received an anonymous tip about a murder in the house and have shown up to investigate. Now Clarissa must keep the body hidden, convince the skeptical police inspector that there has been no murder, and, in the meantime, find out who has been murdered, why, and what the body is doing in her house.»
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Penguin Active Reading 4: Body in the Library (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Agatha Christie Жанр: Pearson Год: 2008 Страниц: 100 Дата загрузки: 20 октрября 20112010-10-13
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Early one morning the Bantrys wake to find the dead body of a young woman in their library. Who is she? How did she get there? The police are called, of course, but Dolly Bantry quickly invites her friend Jane Marple to solve the mystery.
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Stories of Detection and Mystery
Автор: Agatha Christie Жанр: Pearson Год: 2008 Страниц: 136 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20132009-12-07
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Is Alix’s new husband really going to murder her for her money? Who has killed the young Englishman on his return from America? And why have a young couple suddenly disappeared from their home? In this collection of mysteries by famous authors, the answers are never quite what you expect.
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Death on the Nile
Автор: Agatha Christie Жанр: Pearson Год: 2008 Страниц: 104 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20112012-03-19
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Linnet Ridgeway is rich, beautiful and clever. She appears to have everything. But Linnet also has enemies. When she is shot dead on a passenger boat in Egypt, it is fortunate that Hercule Poirot is also on the trip. But even for the great Belgian detective, this is not a simple case.
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The Unexpected Guest
Автор: Agatha Christie Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2000 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 октрября 20092005-08-14
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«A young man, broken down in the fog, witnesses a murder he is asked to conceal… A full-length novel adapted by Charles Osborne from Agatha Christie’s acclaimed play. When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog in South Wales and makes his way to an isolated house, he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of her wheelchair-bound husband, gun in her hand. She admits to murder, and the unexpected guest offers to help her concoct a cover story. But is it possible that Laura Warwick did not commit the murder after all? If so, who is she shielding? The victim’s retarded young half-brother or his dying matriarchal mother? Laura’s lover? Perhaps the father of the little boy killed in an accident for which Warwick was responsible? The house seems full of possible suspects… «The Unexpected Guest» is considered to be one of the finest of Christie’s plays. Hailed as ‘another Mousetrap’ when it opened on 12 August 1958 in the West End, it ran for 604 performances over the succeeding 18 months and has been staged many times around the world over the last 40 years.»
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Автор: Agatha Christie Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2001 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092003-07-14
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Agatha Christie’s first ever murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.
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Five Little Pigs
Автор: Agatha Christie Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2001 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20092002-06-18
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Agatha Christie’s ingenious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects: Philip Blake (the stockbroker) who went to market; Meredith Blake (the amateur herbalist) who stayed at home; Elsa Greer (the three-time divorcee) who had roast beef; Cecilia Williams (the devoted governess) who had none; and Angela Warren (the disfigured sister) who cried ‘wee wee wee’ all the way home. It is sixteen years later, but Hercule Poirot just can’t get that nursery rhyme out of his mind…
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The Labours of Hercules
Автор: Agatha Christie Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 412 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20102012-03-18
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Poirot sets himself a challenge before he retires – to solve 12 cases which correspond with the labours of his classical Greek namesake… In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet – reasoned the detective – like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters. So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot made up his mind to accept just twelve more cases: his self-imposed ‘Labours’. Each would go down in the annals of crime as a heroic feat of deduction.
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4:50 from Paddington
Автор: Agatha Christie Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20092003-06-28
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Agatha Christie’s audacious mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Helplessly, she stared out of 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.
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Clocks
Автор: Agatha Christie Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20092004-05-26
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A typist uncovers a man’s body from behind the sofa… As instructed, stenographer Sheila Webb let herself into the house at 19 Wilbraham Crescent. It was then that she made a grisly discovery: the body of a dead man sprawled across the living room floor. What intrigued Poirot about the case was the time factor. Although in a state of shock, Sheila clearly remembered having heard a cuckoo clock strike three o’clock. Yet, the four other clocks in the living room all showed the time as 4.13. Even more strangely, only one of these clocks belonged to the owner of the house…
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Third Girl
Автор: Agatha Christie Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20092003-06-28
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A perplexed girl thinks she might have killed someone… Three single girls shared the same London flat. The first worked as a secretary; the second was an artist; the third who came to Poirot for help, disappeared convinced she was a murderer. Now there were rumours of revolvers, flick-knives and blood stains. But, without hard evidence, it would take all Poirot’s tenacity to establish whether the third girl was guilty innocent or insane…
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Curtain: Poirot's Last Case
Автор: Agatha Christie Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20102012-03-29
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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?…
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Towards Zero
Автор: Agatha Christie Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20092003-12-20
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An elderly widow is murdered at a clifftop seaside house… What is the connection between a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and the romantic life of a famous tennis player? To the casual observer, apparently nothing. But when a houseparty gathers at Gull’s Point, the seaside home of an elderly widow, earlier events come to a dramatic head. It’s all part of a carefully paid plan – for murder…
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The Hound of Death
Автор: Agatha Christie Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2003 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20092007-03-08
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A collection of macabre mysteries, including the superlative story Witness for the Prosecution… Twelve unexplained phenomena with no apparent earthly explanation… A dog-shaped gunpowder mark; an omen from ‘the other side’; a haunted house; a chilling seance; a case of split personalities; a recurring nightmare; an eerie wireless message; an elderly lady’s hold over a young man; a disembodied cry of ‘murder’; a young man’s sudden amnesia; a levitation experience; a mysterious SOS. To discover the answers, delve into the supernatural storytelling of Agatha Christie.
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Passenger to Frankfurt
Автор: Agatha Christie Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2003 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20092007-03-08
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A middle-aged diplomat is accosted in an airport lounge and his identity stolen… Sir Stafford Nye’s journey home from Malaya to London takes an unexpected twist in the passnger loungs at Frankfurt – a young woman confides in him that someone is trying to kill her. Yet their paths are to cross again and again – and each time the mystery woman is introduced as a different person. Equally at home in any guise in any society she draws Sir Stafford into a game of political intrigue more dangerous than he could possibly imagine. In an arena where no-one can be sure of anyone, Nye must do battle with a well-armed, well-financed, well-trained – and invisble – enemy…
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Nouvelles policières
Автор: Agatha Christie Жанр: Hachette Livre Год: 2000 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 20 октрября 20092003-09-20
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Un vol de bijoux dans une station balnéaire à la mode, une femme poignardée dans sa chambre d'hôtel, une célèbre actrice assassinée dans une maison blanche. Trois mystères proposés à la perspicacité de trois détectives étonnants: Hercule Poirot, miss Marple et les époux Berensford. Mais sauront-ils résoudre ces énigmes?
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Murder on the Orient Express
Автор: Agatha Christie Жанр: Pearson Год: 2009 Страниц: 88 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20122013-03-29
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A train journey from Turkey to France is dalayed by thick snow. So when a passenger on the train is found murdered in his bed, it is the perfect opportunity for Agatha Christie's famous detective, Hercule Poirot, to prove his ability and solve the crime using the power of his brain.
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