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Author

Stout, Rex, 1886-1975

Earliest Publication Date

1948

Summary

Madeline Fraser, radio talk show host extraordinaire, had a natural dread of dead air. So when one of her on-air guests signed off at the mike after drinking a glass of a sponsor’s beverage, it was a broadcaster’s nightmare come true. Enter Nero Wolfe. He agrees to take the case, with his sizable fee contingent on his solving the murder. But to Wolfe’s surprise, everyone connected to the case now lies in unison about it. And as the...

2) And then there were none

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1974

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The world's best-selling mystery! "Ten..." Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious "U.N. Owen". "Nine..." At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by the end of the night one of the guests is dead. "Eight..." Stranded by a violent storm, and haunted by a nursery rhyme counting down one by one...one by one they begin to die. "Seven..." Who among them is...

3) Appointment with death

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1975

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Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sits the corpse of Mrs. Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist is the only sign of the fatal injection that killed her. With only twenty-four hours available to solve themystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he'd overheard back in Jerusalem: You see, don't you, that she's got to be killed? Mrs. Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he'd ever met.

4) Dead man's mirror

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1988

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A smashed mirror convinces Hercule Poirot that the apparent suicide of a client is far too convenient an explanation for what is obviously a gruesome case of murder?

5) Death comes as the end

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1944

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In Death Comes As the End, Dame Agatha Christie transports us back to ancient Egypt 2000 B.C. where a priest?s daughter, investigating a suspicious death, uncovers an asp?s nest of jealousy, betrayal, and serial murder. It is Egypt in 2000 BC, where death gives meaning to life. At the foot of a cliff lies the broken, twisted body of Nofret, concubine to a ka-priest. Young, beautiful, and venomous, most agree that it was fate?she deserved to die like...

6) Death in the clouds

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1970

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A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passenger plane? 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...

7) Death of a poison pen

Author

Beaton, M. C

Earliest Publication Date

2004

8) Destination unknown

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1955

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When a number of leading scientists disappear without a trace, concern grows within the international intelligence community. And the one woman who appears to hold the key to the mystery is dying from injuries sustained in a plane crash. Meanwhile, in a Casablanca hotel room, Hilary Craven prepares to take her own life. But her suicide attempt is about to be interrupted by a man who will offer her an altogether more thrilling way to die....

9) Elephants can remember

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1972

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A classic Hercule Poirot investigation, Agatha Christie's Elephants Can Remember has the expert detective delving into an unsolved crime from the past involving the strange death of a husband and wife. Hercule Poirot stood on the clifftop. Here, many years earlier, there had been a fatal accident followed by the grisly discovery of two bodies, a husband and wife who had been shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion?...

10) Evil under the sun

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1941

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The beautiful bronzed body of Arlena Stuart lay facedown on the beach. But strangely, there was no sun and Arlena was not sunbathing...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 much more evil. --from back cover

11) Five little pigs

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1984

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Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, but just like the nursery rhyme, there were five other "little pigs" who could have done it: Philip Blake (the stockbroker), who went to market; Meredith Blake (the amateur herbalist), who stayed at home; Elsa Greer (the three-time divorcee), who had her roast beef; Cecilia Williams (the devoted governess), who had none; and Angela Warren (the disfigured sister), who cried all the way...

12) Hallowe'en party

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1969

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A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples... At a Hallowe'en 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...

13) Hickory dickory dock

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1992

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A most unusual series of crimes at a student hostel intrigues Inspector Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's Hickory Dickory Dock, especially when a simple case of kleptomania paves the way to murder. Hercule Poirot doesn't need all his detective skills to realize something is troubling his secretary, Miss Lemon-she has made three mistakes in a simple letter. It seems an outbreak of kleptomania at the student hostel in which her sister works is distracting...

14) Legends

Author

Littell, Robert, 1935-

Earliest Publication Date

2005

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Martin Odum is a one-time CIA field agent turned private detective in Brooklyn, struggling his way through a labyrinth of memories and past identities- 'legends' in Agency parlance. But who is Martin Odum? Is he a creation of the Legend Committee at the CIA's Langley headquarters? Is he suffering from multiple personality disorder, brainwashing, or simply exhaustion?

15) Mrs. McGinty's dead

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1952

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"Poirot investigates the murder of an old woman after her lodger is convicted of killing her and condemned to death because the investigating officer believes the man is innocent"-- Provided by publisher.

16) Murder in the Mews

Author

Christie, Agatha

Earliest Publication Date

2002

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Previously published in the print anthology Murder in the Mews: Four Cases of Hercule Poirot. A young woman commits suicide while her roommate is away for the weekend. However, the lead inspector is sufficiently doubtful about the cause of death to call for the help of Hercule Poirot.

17) Murder is easy

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1981

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"Luke Fitzwilliam does not believe Miss Pinkerton's wild allegation that a multiple murderer is at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood and that her local doctor is next in line. But within hours, Miss Pinkerton has been killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Mere coincidence? Luke is inclined to think so--until he reads in the Times of the unexpected demise of Wychwood's Dr. Humbleby ..."--Page 4 of cover.

18) Murder on the Orient Express

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1985

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"Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again--p. 4 cover.

19) Over my dead body

Author

Stout, Rex, 1886-1975

Earliest Publication Date

1994

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When a fencing student ends up skewered through the heart, a Balkan beauty claiming to be Nero Wolfe's daughter is accused of the crime, and Wolfe and Archie are thrust into a tangle of international intrigue.

20) Partners in crime

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1983

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Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie is a delightful and clever collection of short stories featuring the charming husband-and-wife detective duo, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Set in 1920s London, the couple is tasked with running a private detective agency - but in true Christie fashion, nothing is ever as simple as it seems. Each case they tackle is a unique and often humorous adventure, blending mystery with playful parody. From missing jewels...