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Hercule Poirot volume 35
Language
English
Description
From her tousled appearance to her perplexed stare, there was much about the young girl that struck Hercule Poirot as peculiar. But it was her vague confession to a possible murder she's not even sure she's committed that really threw the brainy Belgian detective for a loop. And now she's missing! Where might she be? No one knows -- and no one seems to care. Novelist Ariadne Oliver assists Poirot in this tale of impersonation, drugs, smuggling, forgery,...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot volume 23
Language
English
Description
An exclusive hotel on a tiny, picturesque island seems to be the ideal retreat for the stresses of criminal detection for Hercule Poirot. But with the appearance of the beautiful Arlena Stuart, the quiet and peaceful atmosphere becomes charged with an indefinable erotic tension. And when she is found viciously strangled in a secluded cove, there are few, especially among the women, who seem to feel either surprise or regret.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
[1970]
Physical Desc
505 p. : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A pocket full of rye: Miss Jane Marple must uncover the link between three murders found in a piece of verse that's deadlier than any nursery rhyme.
Hickory dickory death: Poirot investigates a culprit who has curiously swiped a stethoscope, a tube of lipstick, and a cookbook.
The crooked house: In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot volume 37
Language
English
Description
Hercule Poirot investigates the double suicide deaths of Lord and Lady Ravenscroft that occurred twelve years ago. There are hints that it was not suicide after all.
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot volume s. 1 & 39
Publisher
Dodd, Mead & Company
Pub. Date
1975
Physical Desc
313 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Curtain: Poirot returns to the scene of his very first crime to solve a mystery that will be his last
Mysterious affair at styles: Hercule Poirot investigates the mysterious death of a wealthy heiress found murdered behind the locked doors of her boudoir.
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot volume s. 8, 9, 12, 13, 15
Publisher
Wings Books
Pub. Date
1980
Physical Desc
663 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Thirteen at dinner: Lady Edgware wants to marry a duke, but Lord Edgware won't divorce her. She jokingly tells Poirot that if he won't kill Lord Edgware, she may have to. When the lord turns up dead, Lady Jane is suspected. Will her alibi hold up?
Murder on the Orient express: Just after midnight, a snowstorm stops the Orient Express dead in its tracks in the middle of Yugoslavia. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for this time of year. But...
Author
Series
Supertendent Battle volume 3
Miss Marple volume 1
Tommy and Tuppence volume 3
Hercule Poirot volume s. 20 & 32
Miss Marple volume 1
Tommy and Tuppence volume 3
Hercule Poirot volume s. 20 & 32
Publisher
Avenel Books
Pub. Date
1982
Physical Desc
698 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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The murder at the vicarage: Miss Marple investigates the murder of a magistrate at St. Mary Mead's vicarage-uncovering secrets and scandals along the way in the story that started it all.
Dead man's folly: It's a weekend party game of mock murder, but the fun stops when someone takes the game a little too seriously. With one dead player, Hercule Poirot and hostess Ariadne Oliver are playing detective to the end.
Sad cypress: As a condemned murderess...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot volume 18
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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While vactioning in Jerusalem, Hercule Poirot is called upon to solve the murder of another member of the tour group. Many people had a motive for killing Mrs. Boynton, and it is up to Poirot to find the killer.
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot volume s. 3, 17 & 26
Publisher
International Collectors Library
Pub. Date
c1984
Physical Desc
883 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Poirot investigates: A collection of short stories which see Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigating all manner of crimes, such as a suicide (which is in fact murder), a suspicious death in a locked-gun room, a million dollar bond robbery, the curse of a pharaoh's tomb and the abduction of a prime minister.
Dead man's mirror: Four Cases Of Hercule Poirot From an aristocrat's sudden demise and a case of apparent suicide, to the ghostly theft...
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Series
Hercule Poirot volume 16
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1984, c1937
Physical Desc
243 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The letter requesting the renowned detective's services arrived too late--one month after the senders demise. But the client was a client, and Hercule Poirot was determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. Why had Emily Arundell believed her life was in danger? And why had the old lady revised her will only days before her death? Poirot faces one of the most unusual challenges of his career as he tries to determine which of the victim's disgruntled...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot volume 27
Language
English
Description
Hercule Poirot investigates the possible connections between a woman widowed only two weeks after her wedding, a sizable inheritance, suspicions of bigamy, and the murder of a stranger.
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot volume s. 2, 7, 12 & 33
Publisher
Mystery Guild
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
696 p. : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The A.B.C. murders: Alice Ascher from Andover is the first victim. Next to her corpse is a spellbinding clue. It seems that a killer is knocking off his victims one-by-one, A through Z. Alphabetically speaking, Hercule Poirot fears that it's a matter of one down, twenty-five to go.
The murder on the links: A millionaire's been found stabbed in the back on his private golf course. Hercule Poirot finds no shortage of suspects in the victim's family...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot volume s. 9, 20, 24, 25
Publisher
Mystery Guild
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
713 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Murder for Christmas: Simeon Lee has concocted a sadistic game to play on his family. The game begins when he allows his family to hear him give instructions to his lawyer to change his will. The game continues when he gives each of them a thorough dressing down for their weaknesses, stupidity, and greed. The game reaches a climax in Simeon's study where one person is found with a slashed throat. Unfortunately for the clever murderer, Hercule Poirot...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot volume 10
Language
English
Description
The Reverend Stephen Babbington seldom imbibes, but at a gala thrown by actor Sir Charles Cartwright, he indulges in a cocktail and falls over dead. Since there is no trace of poison or foul play, the case is closed . . . until an identical death at a London party arouses the suspicions of Hercule Poirot.
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot volume 29
Language
English
Description
When Cora Lansquenet is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard's funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richard's will, Cora was clearly heard to say, 'It's been hushed up very nicely, hasn't it....But he was murdered, wasn't he?' In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to unravel the mystery.
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Series
Hercule Poirot volume 40
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xiv, 302 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffee house is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified, but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done. Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a fashionable London hotel have been murdered, and a cufflink has been placed in each one's mouth. Could there be a connection with...
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Series
New Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
"What I intend to say to you will come as a shock ..." With these words, Lady Athelinda Playford -- one of the world's most beloved children's authors -- springs a surprise on the lawyer entrusted with her will. As guests arrive for a party at her Irish mansion, Lady Playford has decided to cut off her two children without a penny . . . and leave her vast fortune to someone else: an invalid who has only weeks to live. Among Lady Playford's visitors...
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English
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"Hercule Poirot is traveling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill estate. Richard Devonport has summoned the renowned detective to prove that his fianc�ee, Helen, is innocent of the murder of his brother, Frank. Poirot will have only days to investigate before Helen is hanged, but there is one strange condition attached: he must conceal his true reason for being there from the rest of the Devonport family. The coach...
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English
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It's December 19, 1931. Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool are looking forward to a much-needed, restful Christmas holiday, when they are called upon to investigate the murder of a man in a Norfolk hospital ward. Cynthia Catchpool, Edward's mother, insists that Poirot stay with her in a crumbling mansion by the coast, so that they can all be together for the festive period while he solves the case. As Poirot digs into the mystery, he discovers...
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