Download or read book Problem at Pollensa Bay written by Agatha Christie and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories featuring some of Agatha Christie’s best-loved detectives – Hercule Poirot, Parker Pyne, Mr Satterthwaite and Harley Quin...
Download or read book The Golden Ball written by Agatha Christie and published by MB Cooltura. This book was released on 2023-09-24 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brave young man is fired from the family business by his millionaire uncle. Embittered, he accidentally meets a girl who is fleeing her engagement to a duke and seems to be looking for the same thing as him: a day off. They will live a great adventure together and discover that despite their differences they can be soul mates.
Download or read book Yellow Iris written by Agatha Christie and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distressed phone call from a mystery woman brings Hercule Poirot to the hotel Jardin des Cygnes, where a man commemorates the four-year anniversary of his wife’s sudden death – a death under very suspicious circumstances that Poirot himself witnessed. Gathered is everyone present on that fateful night and now Poirot must find a killer in the midst, before they strike again.
Download or read book The Second Gong written by Agatha Christie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lytcham Close, one of the oldest stately homes in England, is owned by the last remaining heir and ruled by his intolerable whims. Old Hubert demands complete silence when he plays music and times dinner exactly by a resounding gong. Rushing down at the sound of the second—or is it the first?—gong, Joan Ashby is about to find out that not only is dinner delayed, but something is going on that no one can explain. Everyone is thrown into disarray when Old Hubert never materializes and instead a new guest is announced: Hercule Poirot himself. What unfolds is a mystery of lovers, and a death that is not as it appears.
Download or read book 13 for Luck written by Agatha Christie and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen stoires about six of the author's detectives.
Download or read book Next to a Dog written by Agatha Christie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published in the print anthology The Golden Ball and Other Stories. Widow Joyce Lambert is poor and out of work. So fond is she of her little half-blind aging terrier, Terry—a gift from her late husband—that she will do just about anything to keep him.
Download or read book The Case of the Middle Aged Wife written by Agatha Christie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Packington suspects her husband of having an affair. In an attempt to revitalise her marriage, she responds to an ad from Mr. Parker Pyne – who promises to provide solutions to unhappiness. Maria's life soon undergoes a rapid transformation…
Download or read book The Love Detectives An Agatha Christie Short Story written by Agatha Christie and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.
Download or read book Three Blind Mice and Other Stories written by Agatha Christie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agatha Christie demonstrates her unparalleled mastery with Three Blind Mice and Other Stories—a classic compendium of mystery and suspense, crime and detection, whose title novella served as the basis for The Mousetrap, the longest running stage play in the history of the London theater. A blinding snowstorm—and a homicidal maniac—traps a small party of friends in an isolated estate. Out of this deceptively simple setup, Agatha Christie fashioned one of her most ingenious puzzlers, which in turn would provide the basis for The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in history. From this classic title novella to the deliciously clever gems on its tail (solved to perfection by Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple), this rare collection of murder most foul showcases Christie at her inventive best, proving her reputation as "the champion deceiver of our time" (New York Times).
Download or read book The Pearl of Price An Agatha Christie Short Story written by Agatha Christie and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.
Download or read book Parker Pyne Investigates written by Agatha Christie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-02-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agatha Christie once again demonstrates her mastery of the short form mystery with Parker Pyne Investigates—short stories of crime and detection featuring Parker Pyne, certainly one of the most unconventional private investigators ever to pursue a hot lead. Mrs. Packington felt alone, helpless and utterly forlorn. But her life changed when she stumbled upon an advertisement in the Times that read: "Are you happy? If not, consult Mr. Parker Pyne." Equally adept at putting together the fragments of a murder mystery or the pieces of a broken marriage, Mr. Parker Pyne is possibly the world's most unconventional private investigator. Armed with just his intuitive knowledge of human nature, he is an Englishman abroad, traveling the globe to solve and undo crime and misdemeanor.
Download or read book The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories written by Agatha Christie and published by Center Point. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brings together nine rare ... tales of murder and detection that span nearly half a century of [Christie's] storytelling [abilities]"--Back cover.
Download or read book The Hound of Death written by Agatha Christie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Golden Ball and Other Stories. A young Englishman visiting Cornwall finds himself delving into the legend of a Belgian nun who is living as a refugee in the village. Possessed of supernatural powers, she is said to have caused her entire convent to explode when it was occupied by invading German soldiers during World War I. Sister Angelique was the only survivor. Could such a tall tale possibly be true?
Download or read book The House at Shiraz An Agatha Christie Short Story written by Agatha Christie and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.
Download or read book In a Glass Darkly written by Agatha Christie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published in the print anthology The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories. The narrator is startled by a vision in his mirror: He sees a man with a scarred neck strangling a beautiful blonde. He later meets the woman in his vision, Sylvia, and notes her fiancé's scarred neck. He tells her of his premonition, and the engagement is broken off. But is that all there is to it?
Download or read book A Deadly Affair written by Agatha Christie and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[We] can’t get enough of Christie’s plush and murderous thrills.” —Entertainment Weekly From the Queen of Mystery—this all-new collection of stories about love gone horribly wrong will get your heart racing. Love can propel us to our greatest heights . . . and darkest depths. In this new compendium of Agatha Christie short stories, witness the dark side of love—crimes of passion, games of the heart, and deadly deceits. This pulse-pounding compendium features beloved detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, master of charades Parker Pyne, the enigmatic Harley Quin, and the adventurous Tommy and Tuppence, all at the ready to solve tantalizing mysteries. In “The Face of Helen,” a night at the Royal Opera could reach a fatal crescendo for a woman caught in a dicey love triangle; “Finessing the King” delivers a curious ad in the personals that could mask sinister intentions; who’s in danger of getting stung in “Wasps’ Nest” depends on rounding up suspects and solving a murder—before it even happens. These are just a few of the tales in this collection featuring essential reading that Christie fans old and new will simply love to death.
Download or read book MIDWINTER MURDER Fireside Mysteries from the Queen of Crime written by Agatha Christie and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
