Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: «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?»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: 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…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: 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…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: 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…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A full-cast dramatisation of Agatha Christies novel featuring Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «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…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: 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.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: «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…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: 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…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «The beautiful bronzed body of Arlena Stuart lay face down on the beach. But strangely, there was no sun and Arlena was not sun-bathing... she had been strangled. Ever since Arlena's arrival the air had been thick with sexual tension. Each of the guests had a motive to kill her, including Arlena's new husband, but Hercule Poirot suspects that this apparent «crime of passion» conceals something…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: When Clarissa stumbles upon a corpse in her drawing room, she decides that she must dispose of it before her husband arrives with an important foreign dignitary and persuades her three house guests to assist her in the endeavor, but her efforts are threatened by the arrival of a police officer who has come in response to an anonymous tip about a murder.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: The life of Agatha Christie as told by herself. It covers her childhood, her first marriage, the birth of her daughter Rosalind, her second marriage to archaeologist Max Mallowan, and an account of her legendary career as a novelist and playwright.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 187 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 234) Аннотация: «Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. «Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?» she muses. She has the chance to find out when she discovers a body — in her drawing-room! Desperate to dispose of it, she persuades her guests to help her, all the time knowing that one of them must also be the killer. Now,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: First published in 1941, this crime story finds Tommy and Tuppence Beresford in a prim seaside boarding house, frequented by genteel old ladies and retired army officers. But one of them is a spy, leader of the fifth column of highly placed traitors.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Theres a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way through the alphabet. And as a macabre calling card he leaves beside each victims 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 Chuton, there seems little chance of the murderer being caught — until he makes the crucial and vain mistake of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs. Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her. With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark hed overheard back in Jerusalem: You see, dont you, that shes got to be killed? Mrs. Boynton was,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: 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 couldnt 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…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The combined forces of Scotland Yard and the French Surete can do no better than go in circles — until the final murder at Chimneys, the great country estate that yields up an amazing secret. This new signature edition is the first to feature Superintendent Battle and Bundle Brent.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 906 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 375) Аннотация: This is the sequel to The Secret of Chimneys, the second novel to feature Superintendent Battle and Bundle Brent. As a prank, eight alarm clocks are set to wake up champion sleeper, Gerry Wade. But when morning arrives, one clock is missing and the prank backfires, with tragic consequences.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 835 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 361) Аннотация: «While playing an erratic round of golf, Bobby Jones slices a ball over the edge of a cliff. His ball is lost, but on the rocks below he finds the crumpled body of a dying man. With his final breath the man opens his eyes and says: «Why didn't they ask Evans»?»