The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest
Title | The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest PDF eBook |
Author | Agatha Christie |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 35 |
Release | 2013-07-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 006229847X |
Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Christie’s wildly unconventional investigator, Parker Pyne, all make appearances in The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories—a riveting collection of short stories featuring a host of murderous crimes of passion, pleasure, and profit. There's a body in a trunk; a dead girl's reflection is caught in a mirror; and one corpse is back from the grave, while another is envisioned in the recurring nightmare of a terrified eccentric. What's behind such ghastly misdeeds? Try money, revenge, passion, and pleasure. With multiple motives, multiple victims, and multiple suspects, it's going to take a multitude of talent to solve these clever crimes. In this inviting collection, Agatha Christie enlists the services of her finest—Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Parker Pyne—and puts them each to the test in the most challenging cases of their careers.
The Mystery of the Spanish Chest
Title | The Mystery of the Spanish Chest PDF eBook |
Author | Agatha Christie |
Publisher | MB Cooltura |
Total Pages | 109 |
Release | 2023-12-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 987744903X |
Five friends get together to share a delicious dinner, listen to music and dance a little. They have fun and enjoy without excesses or drunkenness. The next morning, the butler is surprised to see a large red stain on the carpet on which an old Spanish chest is resting. When he lifts the lid of the furniture, he discovers to his horror that inside is the corpse of one of the guests, Mr. Clayton, with a dagger stuck in his neck. Hercule Poirot is summoned to help the attractive Mrs. Clayton unravel this strange mystery.
The mystery of the Baghdad chest
Title | The mystery of the Baghdad chest PDF eBook |
Author | Agatha Christie |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 16 |
Release | 1944 |
Genre | Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) |
ISBN |
The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories
Title | The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Agatha Christie |
Publisher | Center Point |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Belgians |
ISBN | 9781611739893 |
In this inviting collection, Agatha Christie enlists the services of her finest, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Parker Pyne, and puts them each to the test in the most challenging cases of their careers.
They Came to Baghdad
Title | They Came to Baghdad PDF eBook |
Author | Agatha Christie |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 296 |
Release | 2002-06-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780312981648 |
Victoria is pursued by an unknown power that threatened not only her, but the fate of the entire world.
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
Title | The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding PDF eBook |
Author | Agatha Christie |
Publisher | MB Cooltura |
Total Pages | 80 |
Release | 2023-06-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 987744836X |
An oriental prince begins an affair in London with a girl of dubious reputation, to whom he gives an emblematic ruby that disappears along with the young woman. Hercule Poirot is summoned to retrieve it. Posing as a guest at the Lacey family home, the detective will share a traditional Christmas to follow the thieves' trail until he finds the valuable jewel.
The Gentle Art of Murder
Title | The Gentle Art of Murder PDF eBook |
Author | Earl F. Bargainnier |
Publisher | Popular Press |
Total Pages | 242 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780879721596 |
This study of the technique of Agatha Christie's detective fiction--sixty-seven novels and over one hundred short stories--is the first extensive analysis of her accomplishment as a writer. Earl F. Bargannier demonstrates that Christie thoroughly understood the conventions of her genre and, with seemingly inexhaustible ingenuity, was able to develop for more than fifty years surprising variations within those conventions.