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SCH-11205 The Listerdale Mystery CHRISTIE Agatha

A selection of mysteries, some light-hearted, some romantic, some very deadly... Twelve tantalizing cases... the curious disappearance of Lord Listerdale; a newlywed's fear of her ex-fiance; a strange encounter on a train; a domestic murder investigation; a wild man's sudden personality change; a retired inspector's hunt for a murderess; a young woman's impersonation of a duchess; a necklace hidden in a basket of cherries; a mystery writer's arrest for murder; an astonishing marriage proposal; a soprano's hatred for a baritone; the case of the rajah's emerald. All have one thing in common: the skilful hand of Agatha Christie.

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SCH-11206 Three Blind Mice CHRISTIE Agatha

It began with a singularly brutal murder in London... and with a note that read: This is the first, with a drawing that showed three mice... and an oddly familiar bar of music. Of course that was London for you - a locale far removed from Giles and Molly Davis and their guests at snowbound Monkswell Manor. Far removed, that is until the police call, leaving a cryptic message. Until the phone goes dead. Until the killer strikes again - to the eerie strains of "Three Blind Mice."

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SCH-11207 Hercule Poirot's Casebook CHRISTIE Agatha

The redoutable Hercule Poirot solves ten perplexing cases with his usual brilliance, including:

MURDER IN THE MEWS - Guy Fawkes' Night, a perfect night for murder. And next morning young Mrs Allen is found dead in her mews house. 

FOUR AND TWENTY BLACKBIRDS - A lonely, eccentric old man in a derelict house falls down and breaks his neck. But was it an accident?

THE ADVENTURE OF JOHNNIE WAVERLY - The letter said the child would be kidnapped and when. But his anxious parents had already contacted Hercule Poirot...

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SCH-11203 Surprise! Surprise! CHRISTIE Agatha

Hercule Poirot boards a bus and goes to the aid of a beauty in a beastly predicament. Miss Jane Marple cycles into a viper's nest of danger and intrigue. Mr. Parker Pyne takes a train to a mansion where a dance of diabolical deceit awaits him. Harley Quin motors to an isolated country inn for a rendezvous with eerie evil. 

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SCH-11194 The Green Mile Part Six: Coffey on the Mile KING Stephen

Cold Mountain Penitentiary has seen its share of death through the years. Now it's John Coffey's turn to take that final walk down the Green Mile. Yet prison guard Paul Edgecombe has uncovered a devastating truth, which means he could be too late to save both himself and Coffey. You see, death by execution may be the easy way out. It's living with the consequences that may last an eternity...

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SCH-11193 The Green Mile Part Four: The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix KING Stephen

Time has run out for one of the inmates at Cold Mountain penitentiary. Eduard Delacroix is set to take that final walk down the Green Mile. But first he must say goodbye to the guards, to his fellow inmates, and to a strange creature that forever changed his life. Little does he know of the terrible fate that awaits him, and of a devilish plan of revenge. 

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SCH-11196 The Green Mile Part Three: Coffey's Hands KING Stephen

Welcome back to the E block, the deadliest place this side of the electric chair, where assaults are a daily grind and miracles are about to happen. Paul Edgecombe has become increasingly curious about John Coffey, the brutal killer of two girls. But Coffey is about to reveal something extraordinary, and life on the Green Mile may never be the same again. 

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SCH-11197 The Green Mile Part Two: The Mouse on the Mile KING Stephen

Cold Mountain Penitentiary has been home to many troubled souls. E Block, where the electric chair waits for those who must pay the ultimate price, has been home to the most troubled of all. And here, not all the evil is behind bars. Sometimes it carries a gun and wears a badge. 

Cold Mountain is a place of the damned, but it can also be a place where salvation comes from the most unlikely source. 

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SCH-11169 The Labors of Hercules CHRISTIE Agatha

Like The Labors of Hercules, the twelve cases Poirot must solve in this captivating collection of short crime fiction stories are dangerous, demanding, and positively ingenious.

In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet—reasoned the detective—like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters.

So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot makes up his mind to accept just twelve more cases: his self-imposed "Labors." Each would go down in the annals of crime as a heroic feat of deduction.

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SCH-11172 Hercule Poirot's Christmas CHRISTIE Agatha

Christmas a a time of goodwill and of family reunion - except for the Lee family. This year will be different. Millionaire twice over, tyrannical and ruthless - has Simeon Lee become sentimental about his children in his old age? Or does he have a more sinister motive in bringing them all together? 

With unseasonal trepidation, the family assembles. In a brilliantly created atmosphere of jealousy and suspicion, a brutal murder is committed. Hercule Poirot will need all his mastery to solve this audacious crime. 

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SCH-11175 Poirot's Early Cases CHRISTIE Agatha

The greatest detective of the twentieth century begins his celebrated career in crime, unmasking murderers, swindlers, drug-dealers and thieves - with his faithful Hastings only a step behind...

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SCH-11178 The Mysterious Mr Quin CHRISTIE Agatha

A mysterious stranger appears at a New Year's Eve party, becoming the enigmatic sleuthing sidekick to the snobbish Mr Satterthwaite... So far, it had been a typical New Year's Eve house party. But Mr Satterthwaite - a keen observer of human nature - sensed that the real drama of the evening was yet to unfold. So it proved when a mysterious stranger arrived after midnight. Who was this Mr Quin? And why did his presence have such a pronounced effect on Eleanor Portal, the woman with the dyed-black hair?

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SCH-11179 Three Act Tragedy CHRISTIE Agatha

Sir Charles Cartwright, the distinguished actor, was giving a party. Around him, the guests stood talking and drinking. The Reverend Stephen Babbington sipped his coctail and pulled a wry face. The chatter continued all around. Suddenly Mr Babbington clutched at his throat and swayed...

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SCH-11180 Poirot Investigates CHRISTIE Agatha

The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings... First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond... then came the suicide' that was murder... the mystery of the absurdly chaep flat... a suspicious death in a locked gun-room... a million dollar bond robbery... the curse of a pharoah's tomb... a jewel robbery by the sea... the abduction of a Prime Minister... the disappearance of a banker... a phone call from a dying man... and, finally, the mystery of the missing willl. What links these fascinating cases? Only the brilliant deductive powers of Hercule Poirot!

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SCH-11176 Lord Edgware Dies CHRISTIE Agatha

Actress Jane Wilkinson approaches Hercule Poirot and pleads with him to speak to her husband, Lord Edgware, who is refusing to divorce her. The next morning Lord Edgware is found murdered and witnesses tell Poirot that Jane Wilkinson was the last person to see him alive. However, Jane was at a dinner party miles away at the time with twelve other guests who will testify to her being there. When two murders are committed, including that of famous impersonator Carlotta Adams, Poirot finds himself in the midst of one his most perplexing cases. 

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SCH-11167 Murder in Retrospect CHRISTIE Agatha

The startling story of a dissolute artist, who brought to his wife's home the beautiful girl he loved - and died for it! 

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SCH-11166 The Thirteen Problems CHRISTIE Agatha

One Tuesday evening a group gathers at Miss Marple's house and the conversation turns to unsolved crimes...

As each of her guests is mystified by the sinister tales they tell one another, the company is inclined to forget their elderly host. But there is a ruthless precision in Miss Marple's pursuit of the killers in each tale... and a few surprises in store for 'The Tuesday Night Club'. 

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SCH-11198 Death on the Nile CHRISTIE Agatha

Volume 29 in the Agatha Christie Collection (1937) Limited edition of 800 copies worldwide The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful. A girl who had everything...until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: 'I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.' Yet in this exotic setting nothing was ever quite what it seemed...

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SCH-11168 The ABC Murders CHRISTIE Agatha

Alice Ascher, a poor, elderly shopkeeper, is murdered in Andover. Betty Barnard, a young waitress, is strangled with her own belt at Bexhill-on-Sea. Next comes Carmichael Clarke, collector of Chinese art, clubbed to death in Churston. Only in Doncaster does the pattern vary: the man found stabbed in the Regal Cinema is called George Earsfield. But each time, an ABC railway guide is found by the dead bodies, and each time, Poirot is warned in advance by a taunting letter from someone signed 'ABC'. Who is ABC? And can Poirot find out in time to prevent the death of a whole alphabet of victims? The police doubt him and the public are in a state of panic, but Poirot is convinced that the murderer's luck will turn, and sooner or later he will make a crucial mistake. And Poirot will be there when he does...

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SCH-11177 Parker Pyne Investigates CHRISTIE Agatha

A collection of short stories featuring the redoubtable heart specialist', Parker Pyne. This volume, in its contemporary Agatha Christie Collection livery, perfectly illustrates Agatha Christie's critically-acclaimed foray into light-hearted, romantic mysteries. Mrs Packington felt alone, helpless and utterly forlorn. But her life changed when she stumbled upon an advertisement in The Times which read: ARE YOU HAPPY? IF NOT, CONSULT MR PARKER PYNE'. Equally adept at putting together the pieces of a marriage or the fragments of a murder mystery, Mr Parker Pyne was possibly the world's most unconventional private eye - and certainly its most charming.

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SCH-11173 Curtain: Poirot's Last Case CHRISTIE Agatha

The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense—creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characters—brings her entire oeuvre of ingenious whodunits, locked room mysteries, and perplexing puzzles to Harper Paperbacks. The legendary detective saves his best for last as he races to apprehend a five-time killer before the final curtain descends in Curtain: Poirot's Last Case.

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SCH-11164 Double Sin and Other Stories CHRISTIE Agatha

In one of London's most elegant shops, a doll in green velvet is found every morning, seated in a different chair... In a small country church, an uninvited stranger is discovered sprawled at the altar. In this superb collection of treats for mystery lovers, both the indomitable English gentlewoman, Miss Marple, and the intimitable Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, put their powers to the test. 

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SCH-11170 Hickory Dickory Dock CHRISTIE Agatha

There's more than petty theft going on in a London youth hostel...An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Hercule Poirot's interest. But when he saw the list of stolen and vandalized items - including a stethoscope, some old flannel trousers, a box of chocolates, a slashed rucksack and a diamond ring found in a bowl of soup - he congratulated the warden, Mrs Hubbard, on a unique and beautiful problem'.The list made absolutely no sense at all. But, reasoned Poirot, if this was merely a petty thief at work, why was everyone at the hostel so frightened?

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SCH-11171 Miss Marple's Final Cases CHRISTIE Agatha

A collection of Miss Marple mysteries, plus some bonus short stories... First, the mystery man in the church with a bullet-wound... then, the riddle of a dead man's buried treasure... the curious conduct oif a caretaker after a fatal riding accident... the corpse and a tape-measure... the girl framed for theft... and the suspect accused of stabbing his wife with a dagger. 

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SCH-11174 The Seven Dials Mystery CHRISTIE Agatha

As a practical joke, fellow houseguests put eight alarm clocks under Gerry Wade's bed, only to find a missing clock and a dead man.

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