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• And Then There Were None

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

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  Ten people arrive on Indian Island off England's southwest coast. Gradually each realizes that every single one of them is marked for murder.

• The Murder at the Vicarage

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

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  Christie's first mystery to feature the beloved investigator Miss Marple--as a dead body in a clergyman's study proves to the indomitable sleuth that no place, holy or otherwise, is a sanctuary from homicide.

• The Mysterious Affair at Styles

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

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  Who poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorp and how did the murderer penetrate and escape from her locked bedroom? Making his unforgettable debut, the brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is on the case.

• The Body in the Library

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

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  When Colonel and Mrs. Bantry find the corpse of a beautiful girl in their library, they rely upon their good friend Miss Marple to solve the crime.

• Crooked House

  Christie, Agatha

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  The Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That is until the head of the household, Aristide, is murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection. Suspicion naturally falls on the old man's young widow, fifty years…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Curtain

  Poirot's Last Case

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976,

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  Arthritic and immobilized, Hercule Poirot takes up his last case, relying on his old friend Captain Hastings to be his eyes and ears as he hunts down the slipperiest criminal of his career.

• Death on the Nile

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

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  Beloved detective Hercule Poirot embarks on a journey to Egypt in one of Agatha Christie's most famous mysteries. The tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hallowe'en Party

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976,

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  At a Hallowe'en party, 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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Miss Marple

  the Complete Short Stories

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

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  This collection of twenty stories features Miss Jane Marple, the famous amateur sleuth who bases her solutions to crimes on past experiences and on an insistence that human nature is the same everywhere.

• Murder on the Orient Express

  Christie, Agatha

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  On a three-day journey through the snowbound Balkan hills, Hercule Poirot must weed through an array of international suspects to find the passenger who murdered a gangster on the Orient Express.

• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976,

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  The death of a wealthy widow is believed to be an accident until her future husband is killed. The police bring in Hercule Poirot to help with the investigation.

• Partners in Crime

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

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  Tommy and Tuppence Beresford adopt the methods and manners of every major literary detective from Hercule Poirot to Sherlock Holmes to piece together an increasingly complex series of delightfully different and deadly misdeeds.

• The Secret Adversary

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

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  Investigating the case of a woman who has been missing for five years, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford uncover just enough information to solve the mystery and put their own lives in jeopardy.

• Sleeping Murder

  Miss Marple's Last Case

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976,

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  Although Gwenda and Giles Reed are determined to solve a macabre puzzle involving a hauntingly familiar Victorian villa and a terrifying vision of a strangled woman, Miss Jane Marple advises them not to uncover a long unreported murder.

• Three Blind Mice and Other Stories

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

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  In the title story, "Three Blind Mice," the guests and residents of the newly opened guest house, Monkswell Manor, find themselves trapped by a blinding snowstorm and threatened by a psychotic killer.

• Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

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  While playing an erratic round of golf, Bobby Jones slices his ball over the edge of a cliff. His ball is lost, but on the rocks below he finds the crumpled body of a dying man. The man opens his eyes and with his last breath says, "Why didn't they…Read moreRead more of this annotation