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In this set of short stories Captain Hastings recounts 18 of Poirot’s early cases from the days before he was famous…Hercule Poirot delighted in telling people that he was probably the best detective in the world. So turning back the clock to trace e…

Убит крепкий старик, глава семьи, который обеспечил состоянием всех многочисленных родственников. Кому выгодна его смерть? Разгадка где-то на поверхности, и следить за перепетиями сюжета читателю помогут подробные комментарии и словарь, данный в конц…

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Edward Palgrove gets more than he bargained for when he buys a basket of fruit and a second-hand car…

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.A man struggles to regain the love of his wife before she leaves him. He asks for Parker Pyne’s help to save his marriage, but when dealing with matters of t…

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 t…

A perplexed girl thinks she might have killed someone…Three single girls shared the same London flat. The first worked as a secretary; the second was an artist; the third who came to Poirot for help, disappeared convinced she was a murderer.Now there…

A charity murder game at a Devon house turns into the real thing…Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fête, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well known crime writer, agrees to …

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.James has found himself at the fashionable resort Kimpton-on-Sea, all due to the persuasion of the young Grace who during the last few months of their courts…

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Inspector Japp summons Poirot to a London house where Guy Fawkes’ Night fireworks appear to have drowned out the noise of a young widow shooting herself thro…

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.A retired police inspector recognizes a woman in his village whom he once suspected of murdering her husband. He is determined that her new husband won’t suf…

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Failing to keep a low profile whilst on holiday in Mallorca, Parker Pyne agrees to help a worried mother ‘save her boy’ from a young artist he has fallen in …

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.In one of Agatha Christie’s earliest short stories, a plucky young actress must rely on her wits to thwart the machinations of a dark-hearted blackmailer…

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.A dowdy lover is cast aside by a shallow man in favour of a beautiful young woman in this gripping tale of jealousy and infidelity…

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Major Hastings and Hercule Poirot are not interested in the case of the Spanish Chest, so obviously has it been reported in the papers that it seems an entir…

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Tommy and Tuppence set up the International Detective Agency, but don’t seem able to attract any clients. Unexpectedly, a trip to a hat shop leads to a missi…

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.On a dark evening, Mr Harley Quin appears at the door of Royston Hall under the premise that his car has broken down. Once inside, he embarks upon the tragic…

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Poirot is fascinated by Hastings’ talk of an unusually ‘dirt cheap’ flat in an expensive part of London. With his suspicion aroused Poirot cannot resist inve…

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.An ambassador’s bag is mistakenly switched after a cruise, but nothing has been stolen. Unsettled by the incident, he employs the help of Tommy and Tuppence …

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Parker Pyne arranges for a mild-mannered clerk with a passion for suspense novels to do some real-life spy work. But fact can be stranger than fiction…

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Certain that her husband is trying to poison her Mrs Pengelley pleads for Poirot’s help. Not entirely convinced of the accusation he travels down the next da…