Hercule Poirot mysteries
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Set in the summer of 1917, the story follows the war-wounded Hastings to the Styles St. Mary estate of his friend John Cavendish. The Cavendish household is wrought with tension due to the marriage of John's widowed mother to a suspicious younger man. In the village, Hastings runs into his old friend Hercule Poirot and, when the estate's trouble turns deadly, the friends unite to solve a most baffling case.
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"Framed in the doorway of Hercule Poirot's bedroom stands an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man stares for a moment, then he sways and falls. Who is he? Is he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what is the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper? Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigue, risking his life--and that of his 'twin brother'--to uncover...
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The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie, published in 1928, is a classic addition to Christie's renowned collection of detective novels.
This captivating mystery revolves around the luxurious Blue Train, where a murder takes place during a journey to the French Riviera. The story features the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot, who must unravel a complex web of relationships, motives, and clues to solve the crime.
Christie's masterful...
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Lady Edgware asks for Poirot's help with her husband who is refusing to divorce her. When Lord Edgware is found murdered the next morning his wife is the primary suspect, but she was at a dinner party miles away with twelve witnesses to prove it. So why do others insist that she visited him on the night of the murder? Poirot will need all the help he can get from "his little gray cells" to figure out this case.
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 8
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While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift. Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment. Incredibly, that compartment is locked from the inside. With no escape into the wintery landscape the killer must still be on board. Fortunately, the brilliant...
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Harpers Audio
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p2001
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On an airplane bound for London from Paris, one of the 11 passengers is dead. The small red puncture wound on the woman's neck might have been accepted as a sting from a wasp, but luck is not on the killer's side. Hercule Poirot is aboard the plane, and he discovers a thorn typically used with a blowpipe near the victim's feet. As he tackles the case, suspicion points in all directions, even back at Poirot. Can he prevent the culprit from getting...
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The A B C murders , Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 11
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 13
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Dodd, Mead
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[1987], c1936
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Five people in one room; four of them absorbed in a game of bridge; the fifth sitting quietly by the fire with a thin steel dagger in his heart! Hercule Poirot investigates yet another most intriguing murder.
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 15
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All the best ingredients are here: an idyllic cruise in an exotic setting, a beautiful young woman on her honeymoon, a shocking murder with suspects galore. Fortunately Hercule Poirot is on the scene, thanks to a cruise holiday on the River Nile, and he exercises all his "little grey cells" in probing the passengers' airtight alibis.
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Hercule Poirot's Christmas , Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 17
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Sad cypress: a Hercule Poirot mystery , Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 18
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The patriotic murders , Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 19
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 22
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When Hercule Poirot arrives for lunch at Lucy Angkatell's country house he's met with a dying man and a tangle of family secrets that leaves everyone a suspect.
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The labours of Hercules , Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 23
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Taken at the flood , Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 24
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Funerals are fatal , Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 26
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Hickory dickory death , Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 27
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 28
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William Morrow
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2011.
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English
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Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village celebration, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery featuring a Murder Hunt, hosted by mystery writer Ariadne Oliver. One need only follow the game's make-believe clues to be the first to find the body. Only this time, it isn't a game, and the clues lead to a genuine corpse. Ariadne needs the help of her old friend, Hercule Poirot.
31) Third girl
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 31
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A near-fatal dose of poison, a blood-stained knife, a revolver, and a family who are not what they seem figure in an extraordinary case that takes celebrated detective Hercule Poirot from a village estate to the bohemian streets of London--in a matter of life and death.
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 32
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Hercule Poirot investigates the death of a girl who shortly before her death had claimed to have seen a murder being committed.
34) Curtain
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 34
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Dodd, Mead
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c1975
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In Poirot's last case he returns to Styles Court, the scene of his first English adventure in crime, to track down the person responsible for several murders.
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In Agatha Christie's short story, "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding," Poirot is asked to attend a Christmas celebration in order to apprehend a jewel-thief who has taken advantage of an unwary eastern prince. Full of English holiday tradition and plenty of intrigue, this holiday tale first appeared in the December 12, 1923 issue of The Sketch magazine.
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Murder in the mews
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Hercule Poirot's early cases
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Poirot investigates
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