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Murder in Mesopotamia
Автор: Christie Agatha Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2001 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20092005-03-16
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«An archaeologist's wife is murdered on the shores of the River Tigris in Iraq... It was clear to Amy Leatheran that something sinister was going on at the Hassanieh dig in Iraq; something associated with the presence of «Lovely Louise», wife of celebrated archaeologist Dr. Leidner. In a few days' time Hercule Poirot was due to drop in at the excavation site. But with Louise suffering from terrifying hallucinations, and tension within the group becoming almost unbearable, Poirot might just be too late!»
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The Murder on the Links
Автор: Christie Agatha Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2001 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 20092004-04-07
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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 sons 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, identicallurdered corpse.
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Peril at End House
Автор: Christie Agatha Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2001 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20092003-05-22
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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. Nick Buckley was an unusual name for a pretty young woman. But then she had led an unusual life. First, on a treacherous Cornish hillside, the brakes on her car failed. Then, on a coastal path, a falling boulder missed her by inches. Later, an oil painting fell and almost crushed her in bed. Upon discovering a bullet-hole in Nick's sun hat, Hercule Poirot decides the girl needs his protection. At the same time, he begins to unravel the mystery of a murder that hasn't been committed. Yet.
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Murder on the Orient Express
Автор: Christie Agatha Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2001 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20092002-06-18
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Just after midnight, a snowdrift stopped the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of the year. But by the morning there was one passengerwer. An American lay dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. With tension mounting, detective Hercule Poirot comes up with not one, but two solutions to the crime.
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After the Funeral
Автор: Christie Agatha Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2001 Страниц: 378 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20092004-09-20
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When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richards funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richards will, Cora was clearly heard to say: Its been hushed up very nicely, hasnt itBut he was murdered, wasnt he? In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to unravel the myste.
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Halloween Party
Автор: Christie Agatha Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2001 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20092004-04-25
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At a Halloween party, Joyce — a hostile thirteen-year-old — boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the evil presence. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer ...
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Poirot Investigates
Автор: Christie Agatha Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2001 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 20092003-05-24
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First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond... then came the suicide that was murder... the mystery of the absurdly chaep flat... a suspicious death in a locked gun-room... a million dollar bond robbery... the curse of a pharoahs tomb... a jewel robbery by the sea... the abduction of a Prime Minister... the disappearance of a banker... a phone call from a dying man... and, finally, the mystery of the missing willl. What links these fascinating cases? Only the brilliant deductive powers of Hercule Poirot!
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Mystery of Blue Train
Автор: Christie Agatha Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2001 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20092002-06-18
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When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again, for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition. What is more, her priceless rubies are missing.
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The Big Four
Автор: Christie Agatha Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20092003-06-28
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An uninvited guest, coated in dust, sways and falls in the doorway of Poirots bedroom. Who is he? What is the significance of the figure 4 scribbled repeatedly on a sheet of paper? Poirot is plunged into a world of international intrigue, risking his life to uncover the truth about Number Four.
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The Moving Finger
Автор: Christie Agatha Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20092006-03-08
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Agatha Christie's famous Miss Marple mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets — a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate-mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs Symmington, commits suicide. Her final note said 'I can't go on'. Only Miss Marple questions the coroner's verdict of suicide. Was this the work of a poison-pen? Or of a poisoner?
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Murder at Vicarage
Автор: Christie Agatha Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20092003-06-28
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When the Parson declares rather carelessly: Anyone who murdered Colonel Prothero would be doing the world at large a service!, he does not realise his words will come back to haunt him. From several potential murderers, Miss Marple must find the real killer.
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Murder in the Mews
Автор: Christie Agatha Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20092003-06-28
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«Poirot is faced with four mystifying cases — «Murder in the Mews», «The Incredible Theft», «Dead Mans Mirror» and «Triangle at Rhodes». How can a woman holding a gun in her right hand shoot herself in the left temple? And what is the link between a ghost and some missing top secret plans?»
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Three Act Tragedy
Автор: Christie Agatha Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20092003-06-28
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The new-look series of Hercule Poirot books for the 21st century. Thirteen guests for dinner. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, went into convulsions and died. But when his martini glass was sent for chemical analysis, there was no trace of poison — just as Poirot had predicted. Even more troubling for the great detective, there was absolutely no motive...
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Murder is Announced
Автор: Christie Agatha Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20092004-05-18
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The new-look series of Miss Marple books for the 21st century. The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which reads: A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.p.m. A childish practical joke? Or a hoax intended to scare poor Letitia Blacklock? Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, a crowd begins to gather at Little Paddocks at the appointed time when, without warning, the lights go out...
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Mrs: McGinty's Dead
Автор: Christie Agatha Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20092004-05-18
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The new-look series of Hercule Poirot books for the 21st century. Mrs McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion fell immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes revealed traces of the victims blood and hair. Yet something was amiss: Bentley just didnt look like a murderer. Poirot believed he could save the man from the gallows — what he didnt realise was that his own life was now in great danger...
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Taken at the Flood
Автор: Christie Agatha Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20092003-06-28
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A full-cast dramatisation of Agatha Christies novel featuring Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot.
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Sleeping Murder
Автор: Christie Agatha Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20092005-04-12
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«The owner of a seaside villa is plagued by strange feelings about its past... Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs! In fear, Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between them, they were to solve a «perfect» crime committed many years before.»
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Dead Man's Folly
Автор: Christie Agatha Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20092005-04-22
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Sir George and Lady Stubbs hit upon the idea of staging a mock murder mystery. Ariadne Oliver, a well known crime writer, agrees to organize their murder hunt. Despite weeks of planning, Ariadne calls in Hercule Poirot, as instinctively she senses that something sinister is about to happen.
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Sparkling Cyanide
Автор: Christie Agatha Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20092006-03-26
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«A new signature edition of Agatha Christies thriller, featuring the recurring character of Colonel Race from «Death on the Nile», «Cards on the Table» and «The Man in the Brown Suit». Six people sit down to dinner at a table laid for seven. In front of the empty place is a sprig of rosemary — in solemn memory of Rosemary Barton who died at the same table exactly one year previously. No one present on that fateful night would ever forget the womans face, contorted beyond recognition — or what they remembered about her astonishing life.»
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While the Light Lasts
Автор: Christie Agatha Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2003 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20092005-05-26
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Some of Agatha Christie's earliest stories — including her very first — which show the Queen of Crime in the making... A macabre recurring dream... revenge against a blackmailer... jealousy, infidelity and a tortured conscience... a stolen gemstone... the haunting attraction of an ancient relic... a race against time... a tragic love triangle... a body in a box... an unexpected visitor from beyond the grave... Nine quintessential examples of Agatha Christie's brilliance are contained in this new collection of early short stories — including the very first one she ever wrote — and provide a unique glimpse of the Queen of Crime in the making.
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