A collection eight plays by the Queen of Crime includes plots that feature people facing death on an isolated island, in the desert heat of Jerusalem, and within the paneled walls of a courtroom. Reprint.
Ex-policeman Luke Fitzwilliam meets a seemingly deranged old woman on her way to Scotland Yard who claims that a serial killer is on the loose in her village. Fitzwilliam is skeptical about the woman's claims, until she turns up dead.
A new audio edition of the Agatha Christie thriller, packaged in the stylish new series livery to match the PBs. When a number of leading scientists disappear without trace, concern grows within the international intelligence community. Are they being kidnapped? Blackmailed? Brainwashed?One woman appears to have the key to the mystery. Unfortunatel...more
Agatha Christie's beloved sleuth Miss Marple is back in this compelling audio version of one of Christie's most adored and adapted novels. Jerry Burton and his sister Joanna are living in an English village as Jerry recovers from a disabling airplane accident. But when vicious letters begin arriving all over town -- including a few addressed to Bur...more
The colorful Belgian detective with the waxed mustache and the egg-shaped head uses his little gray cells to solve 14 of his most baffling cases, ranging from country house murders to an adventure in an Egyptian tomb. Ageless, timeless mystery from the "Queen of Crime." **MASS MARKET PAPER**
When a priest is murdered on his way home from attending a dying woman, Mark Easterbrook must solve his murder, working with the only clue he has--the list of unrelated names found on the priest's body. Reprint.
Mrs. Argyle, benevolent tyrant and mother of five, is murdered with a poker. Her son Jacko is convicted of the crime but dies in prison. Two years later, Dr. Arthur Calgary comes forward to clear Jacko, but the Argyle family is not pleased. If Jacko didn’t commit the crime, who did? Suspense mounts as the family realizes that exonerating Jacko me...more
An elderly stroke victim dies without having arranged a will...Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, only one man stil...more
"I like a good detective story, but they begin in the wrong place! They begin with the murder. But the murder is the end. The story begins long before that." So remarks esteemed criminologist Mr. Treves. Truer words have never been spoken, for a psychopathic killer has insinuated himself , with cunning manipulation, into a quiet village on the rive...more
Reverend Stephen Babbington attends a party, has a cocktail, and dies. With no trace of poison and no motive for murder, the death is ascribed to natural causes. At another party, with the same guests, another person dies in exactly the same manner. Hercule Poirot, present at the first gathering, takes on the baffling case. He stages his own party,...more