An illustrated short story from the Queen of crime.
Sitting in front of a fire, Hastings listens as Poirot recounts his greatest failure. When a wealthy French deputy dies, everyone believes it is from natural causes. Poirot is on vacation from the Belgian police when a young lady comes to him convinced the man was poisoned. She creates a guise for him enter the house as a journalist to investigate...

Mr. Davenheim, a wealthy financier, leaves his home to mail a letter, then fails to return. The story fills the newspapers and intrigues Hercule Poirot, who challenges Inspector Japp with the claim that he can solve the case before the police, and without leaving his flat.

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An aging, heavily-insured country squire whose estate is in financial ruin is thought to have committed suicide. Hercule Poirot investigates by taking the guise of a representative of the victim's insurance company. His real task? Uncover the identity of the actual murderer.

Librarian's note: this entry is for the story, "The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor." Collections of short stories by the author can be found elsewhere on Goodreads. The individual entries for all Poirot short stories can be found by searching Goodreads for: "a Hercule Poirot Short Story."

The cover states; "A new collection from the undisputed Queen of Crime." The word "new" is no longer applicable; it came out in 1991, but it certainly contains eight great short stories, and the author's sobriquet still remains applicable for sure!

The stories are: (1) Problem at Pollensa Bay - with Parker Pyne, (2) The Second Gong - with Hercule Poirot, (3) Yellow Iris - with Hercule Poirot, (4) The Harlequin Tea Set - with Harley Quin, (5) The Regatta Mystery - with Parker Pyne, (6) The Love Detectives - with Harley Quin, (7) Next To A Dog - a standalone short story, and (8) Magnolia Blossom - a standalone short story. The last two can be described as romances, but they are much more than that.

The variety of the stories stands out. From murder and attempted murder, to theft and the love between a woman and her pet dog, no one can say that Agatha Christie wasn't versatile! The individual stories were first published between the 1920s and 1971.

Librarian's note: this entry is for the collection of short stories, "Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories." Entries for the eight individual titles, including the title story, can be found elsewhere on Goodreads. Any short story featuring Poirot can be found by searching Goodreads for "a Hercule Poirot Short Story," Pyne by searching for "a Parker Pyne Short Story," and Quin by searching for "a Harley Quin Short Story."

Previously published in the print anthology The Thirteen Problems .
At a health resort, Miss Marple becomes suspicious that a man she meets is planning on murdering his wife.

Alors qu'il rentre de mission et compte s'arrêter quelques jours à Istanbul, Hercule Poirot est rappelé d'urgence à Londres. On est en hiver et à cette époque de l'année, l'Orient Express roule habituellement quasiment à vide. Pourtant, sans l'aide du directeur de la compagnie, Hercule Poirot n'aurait pas trouvé de place à bord, comme si tous les voyageurs s'étaient donné rendez-vous dans ce train ! Dès la première nuit, un homme est assassiné. Le train est immobilisé par la neige qui empêche l'assassin de s'enfuir. Dans les wagons isolés du reste du monde, Hercule Poirot, au sommet de son art, mène l'enquête. Et ce ne sont pas les pistes qui manquent ! Chef-d'oeuvre incontesté de la littérature policière Le Crime de l'Orient Express présente une intrigue bouleversante, admirablement conçue et orchestrée. Pas un détail n'est laissé au hasard. Du sur mesure pour les petites cellules grises du précieux détective Hercule Poirot qui vit ici l'une de ses plus célèbres enquêtes. --Sophie Colpaert

Pourquoi glisser une poignée de seigle dans la poche d'un homme après l'avoir empoisonné ? Pourquoi accrocher un cintre à vêtements dans le nez d'une jeune fille après l'avoir étranglée ? Que signifient ces indices saugrenus ? Sont-ils la signature du meurtrier ? Dans ce cas, il ne peut s'agir que d'un fou.
D'un monstre. Un dangereux maniaque se promène en toute liberté à Yewtree Lodge. Un maniaque qui peut frapper de nouveau. Un maniaque que miss Marple est venue démasquer. Car ce qui peut paraître saugrenu à certains prend une signification à ses yeux. Miss Marple est une très vieille dame et elle a vu tant de choses...

Miss Marple, en vacances aux Antilles, se livre à sa distraction favorite : étudier les hôtes de son hôtel. Le Major Palgrave ne cesse de l'accabler du récit de ses exploits. Mais le Major parle trop. Il meurt.
Pourquoi a-t-on tué cet inoffensif vieillard, et qui ? Cette mort, apparemment naturelle, cache un crime. Miss Marple découvrira-t-elle le coupable ?

The Murder at the Vicarage is Agatha Christie’s first mystery to feature the beloved investigator Miss Marple—as a dead body in a clergyman’s study proves to the indomitable sleuth that no place, holy or otherwise, is a sanctuary from homicide. Miss Marple encounters a compelling murder mystery in the sleepy little village of St. Mary Mead, where under the seemingly peaceful exterior of an English country village lurks intrigue, guilt, deception and death.

Colonel Protheroe, local magistrate and overbearing land-owner is the most detested man in the village. Everyone--even in the vicar--wishes he were dead. And very soon he is--shot in the head in the vicar's own study. Faced with a surfeit of suspects, only the inscrutable Miss Marple can unravel the tangled web of clues that will lead to the unmasking of the killer.

Agatha Christie's seasonal mystery thriller in a sumptuous Christmas hardback Special Edition.

'There is, at Christmas, a spirit of goodwill. People who do not feel amiable are putting great pressure on themselves to appear amiable! If you dam the stream of natural behaviour, mon ami, sooner or later the dam bursts and a cataclysm occurs!' It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. But when Hercule Poirot, who is staying in the village with a friend for Christmas, offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man...

In Hercule Poirot’s Christmas, the holidays are anything but merry when a family reunion is marred by murder—and the notoriously fastidious investigator is quickly on the case.Christmas Eve, and the Lee family’s reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed.When Hercule Poirot offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man. . . .

"A Murder is Announced" is a staple of crime fiction and often considered as the best Miss Marple novel. The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple who is staying nearby, 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 6.30 p.m.’ Is this a childish practical joke? Or a hoax intended to scare poor Letitia Blacklock? Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, a crowd gathers at Little Paddocks at the appointed time when, without warning, the lights go out…

The novel was promoted on both sides of the Atlantic as Agatha Christie's 50th book and published in 1950 by William Collins.

Librarian's note: this entry is for the novel, "A Murder is Announced." Collections and other Miss Marple stories are located elsewhere on Goodreads. The series includes 12 novels and 20 short stories. Entries for the short stories can be found by searching Goodreads for: "a Miss Marple Short Story."

Our indomitable Miss Marple turns ghost hunter and uncovers shocking evidence of a very old crime.

Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernize 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. Have they dredged up a “perfect” crime committed many years before?

Librarian's note: this entry is for the novel, "Sleeping Murder." Collections and other Miss Marple stories are located elsewhere on Goodreads. The series includes 12 novels and 20 short stories. Entries for the short stories can be found by searching Goodreads for: "a Miss Marple Short Story."

美丽动人、在影视圈里风生水起大半辈子的大明星玛丽娜搬进了马普尔小姐所在的乡村小镇。风韵犹存的女明星举办盛大派对宴请小镇居民，每位来客都热情地上前攀谈，然而原本谈笑风生的女主人突然望着虚空中的一点，表情仿佛凝固了一般。

这一奇异的画面被几位细心的客人捕捉到，事后众说纷纭，唯一相似的说法是，大家都觉得女主人那时如同看到了噩运。果然，不久后噩运降临，富丽堂皇的女星豪宅迎来一连串凶杀……

In Heroes, Peter C. Newman gives us incisive analysis of dozens of Canadians, past and present, who have defined this country, drawing on fifty years of writing. He writes about iconic Canadians such as Terry Fox, Margaret Atwood and June Callwood. From the political ring, he discusses the legacies of Pierre Trudeau, Christina McCall and Lester B. Pearson, among others. And from the world of business, Newman includes some of the most active entrepreneurs on the planet, including Jimmy Pattison and Paul Desmarais. The grand literary master at the top of his game shares the inside stories of these pivotal characters whose lives and times set examples for all of us.

This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 16 tales by masters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Agatha Christie crime story that has not been seen since 1922. At a time when crime and thriller writing has once again overtaken the sales of general and literary fiction, Bodies from the Library unearths lost stories from the Golden Age, that period between the World Wars when detective fiction captured the public’s imagination and saw the emergence of some of the world’s cleverest and most popular storytellers. This anthology brings together 16 forgotten tales that have either been published only once before – perhaps in a newspaper or rare magazine – or have never before appeared in print. From a previously unpublished 1917 script featuring Ernest Bramah’s blind detective Max Carrados, to early 1950s crime stories written for London’s Evening Standard by Cyril Hare, Freeman Wills Crofts and A.A. Milne, it spans five decades of writing by masters of the Golden Age. Most anticipated of all are the contributions by women writers: the first detective story by Georgette Heyer, unseen since 1923; an unpublished story by Christianna Brand, creator of Nanny McPhee; and a dark tale by Agatha Christie published only in an Australian journal in 1922 during her ‘Grand Tour’ of the British Empire. With other stories by Detection Club stalwarts Anthony Berkeley, H.C. Bailey, J.J. Connington, John Rhode and Nicholas Blake, plus Vincent Cornier, Leo Bruce, Roy Vickers and Arthur Upfield, this essential collection harks back to a time before forensic science – when murder was a complex business.

Ingår i serien Wahlströms Juryböcker (#54)
Innehåller:
*"Storviltjakt" Richard Connell
*"Fåglarna" Daphne Du Maurier
*"Den beslöjade damen" Agatha Christie
*"Mannen från Sydamerika" Roald Dahl
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十个互不相识的人，被富有的欧文先生邀请到了印地安岛上的私人别墅里。晚餐后，一个神秘的声音揭开了人们心中所各自隐藏着的可怕秘密。当天晚上，年轻的马斯顿先生离奇死去，古老的童谣就像诅咒一样笼罩着所有人，似乎有一双神秘的眼镜在时刻窥视着这场死亡游戏，到访者就像消失的印地安小瓷人一样一个又一个的走向死神……