Nr |
Titel |
Auteur |
Beschrijving |
Categorie |
SCH-04805 |
Tales of the Unexpected |
DAHL Roald |
Dahl is a master at introducing readers to a new sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary. The author's short stories have been bestsellers since the 50s and now their addictive air of suspense comes to audio in these ten brilliant stories. |
Engelse romans |
SCH-04776 |
The Seven Dials Mystery |
CHRISTIE Agatha |
A healthy young man dies in his sleep despite the ringing of eight alarm clocks...Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper; so the other house guests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off, one after the other, starting at 6.30 a.m. But when morning arrived, one clock was missing and the prank had backfired with tragic consequences. For Jimmy Thesiger in particular, the words 'Seven Dials' were to take on a new and chilling significance... |
Engelse romans |
SCH-04773 |
The Secret Adversary |
CHRISTIE Agatha |
The two young people greeted each other affectionately and momentarily blocked the Dover Street Tube exit in doing so. The adjective old was misleading. Their united ages would certainly not have totalled forty-five. |
Engelse romans |
SCH-04770 |
Peril at End House |
CHRISTIE Agatha |
Hercule Poirot's relaxing holiday on the Cornish coast takes an unexpected turn when he meets young and beautiful Nick Buckley. Though Nick tries to shrug off the bullet that barely missed her as an accident, just one more event in her recent chain of bad luck, Poirot is convinced she needs his protection. After a fatal attack, apparently aimed at Nick but gone awry, Poirot spirits her away to a nursing home for her protection. |
Engelse romans |
SCH-04771 |
The Pale Horse |
CHRISTIE Agatha |
A priest's death leads to sinister goings-on in an old country pub...To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning? |
Engelse romans |
SCH-04769 |
Ordeal by Innocence |
CHRISTIE Agatha |
Evidence that clears the name of a boy sentenced for killing his adopted mother arrives too late to save his life - so who did kill her? Dr. Arthur Calgary takes a ferry across the Rubicon River to Sunny Point, the home of the Argyle family. A year before, the matriarch of the family was murdered and a son, Jack, was convicted and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. |
Engelse romans |
SCH-04768 |
The Mystery of the Blue Train |
CHRISTIE Agatha |
When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again - for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition. What is more, her precious rubies are missing. The prime suspect is Ruth's estranged husband, Derek. Yet Poirot is not convinced, so he stages an eerie re-enactment of the journey, complete with the murderer on board... |
Engelse romans |
SCH-04766 |
The Mysterious Affair at Styles |
CHRISTIE Agatha |
This is the very first Poirot/Hastings story. Set in 1916, we meet Captain Hastings as he is invalided out of the Great War and goes to convalesce at Styles Court, the family home of his great friend, John Cavendish. By an extraordinary coincidence, billeted in the village is a brilliant little retired detective with an egg-shaped head, who made a considerable impression on the Captain when he was in Belgium. Styles is not a happy household and in the blistering summer heat, tensions mount. Even so, the tragic murder, which occurs is not expected. |
Engelse romans |
SCH-04765 |
Murder is Easy |
CHRISTIE Agatha |
Luke Fitzwilliam could not believe Miss Pinkerton's wild allegation that a multiple murderer was at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood - or her speculation that the local doctor was next in line. But within hours, Miss Pinkerton had been killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Mere coincidence? Luke was inclined to think so - until he read in The Times of the unexpected demise of Dr Humbleby... |
Engelse romans |
SCH-04764 |
A Murder is Announced |
CHRISTIE Agatha |
The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are a gog with curiosity when the Gazette advertises ?A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m.?
A childish practical joke? Or a spiteful hoax? Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, the locals arrive at Little Paddocks at the appointed time when, without warning, the lights go out and a gun is fired. When they come back on, a gruesome scene is revealed. An impossible crime? Only Miss Marple can unravel it.
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Engelse romans |
SCH-04763 |
Murder in Mesopotamia |
CHRISTIE Agatha |
An archaeologist's wife is murdered on the shores of the River Tigris in Iraq, and Hercule Poirot must find the killer! An expedition to excavate the ruins of an ancient city in Iraq is halted by a grisly murder. Mrs Leidner, wife of the famous archaeologist, had been warning about death threats, but everyone knows that the heat makes you imagine things. Now, on the edge of the beautiful River Tigris, the open desert becomes the claustrophobic setting for an exotic investigation! |
Engelse romans |
SCH-04762 |
The Moving Finger |
CHRISTIE Agatha |
The Burtons, brother and sister, arrive in a small village, soon receiving an anonymous letter accusing them of being lovers, not siblings. They are not the only ones in the village to receive such vile letters, a prominent resident is found to have committed suicide over one such letter. |
Engelse romans |
SCH-04760 |
The Man in the Brown Suit |
CHRISTIE Agatha |
1924. How odd, Anne Beddingfeld thought, that the stranger caught her eye, recoiled in horror, and fell to his death on the rails of Hyde Park Underground Station. Odder still was a doctor in a brown suit who pronounced him dead and vanished into the crowd. |
Engelse romans |
SCH-04759 |
Lord Edgware Dies |
CHRISTIE Agatha |
Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to 'get rid of' her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead. And yet the great Belgian detective couldn't help feeling that he was being taken for a ride. After all, how could Jane have stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? And what could be her motive now that the aristocrat had finally granted her a divorce? |
Engelse romans |
SCH-04756 |
Funerals Are Fatal |
CHRISTIE Agatha |
When Cora Lansquenet is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard?s funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richard?s will, Cora was clearly heard to say,?It?s been hushed up very nicely, hasn?t it.?But he was murdered, wasn?t he??
In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to unravel the mystery.?
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Engelse romans |
SCH-04755 |
Five Little Pigs |
CHRISTIE Agatha |
A womanising painter was poisoned 16 years ago by his wife, but now his daughter believes she was innocent all along...Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects: Philip Blake (the stockbroker) who went to market; Meredith Blake (the amateur herbalist) who stayed at home; Elsa Greer (the three-time divorcee) who had roast beef; Cecilia Williams (the devoted governess) who had none; and Angela Warren (the disfigured sister) who cried 'wee wee wee' all the way home. It is sixteen years later, but Hercule Poirot just can't get that nursery rhyme out of his mind... |
Engelse romans |
SCH-04753 |
Endless Night |
CHRISTIE Agatha |
Some are born to sweet delight,Some are born to endless night . . .
When penniless Michael Rogers discovers the beautiful house at Gypsy?s Acre and then meets the heiress Ellie, it seems that all his dreams have come true at once. But he ignores an old woman?s warning of an ancient curse, and evil begins to stir in paradise. As Michael soon learns: Gypsy?s Acre is the place where fatal ?accidents? happen.
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Engelse romans |
SCH-04752 |
Destination Unknown |
CHRISTIE Agatha |
A young woman with nothing to live for is persuaded to embark on a suicide mission to find a missing scientist...When a number of leading scientists disappear without trace, concern grows within the international intelligence community. Are they being kidnapped? Blackmailed? Brainwashed? One woman appears to have the key to the mystery. Unfortunately, Olive Betteron now lies in a hospital bed, dying from injuries sustained in a Moroccan plane crash. |
Engelse romans |
SCH-04750 |
Crooked House |
CHRISTIE Agatha |
A new Agatha Christie thriller, described by her as one of my best. The Leonides were one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That was until the head of the household, Aristide, was murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection. Suspicion naturally falls on the old man's young widow, fifty years his junior. But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward, fiance of the late millionare's granddaughter... |
Engelse romans |
SCH-04749 |
Cat Among the Pigeons |
CHRISTIE Agatha |
Unpleasant things are going on in an exclusive school for girls - things like murder...Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of the unpopular games mistress - shot through the heart from point blank range. The school is thrown into chaos when the 'cat' strikes again. Unfortunately, schoolgirl Julia Upjohn knows too much. In particular, she knows that without Hercule Poirot's help, she will be the next victim... |
Engelse romans |
SCH-04748 |
A Caribbean Mystery |
CHRISTIE Agatha |
An exotic holiday for Miss Marple is ruined when a retired major is killed? As Jane Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Eventually, her interest was aroused by an old soldier?s yarn about a strange coincidence. Infuriatingly, just as he was about to show her an astonishing photograph, the Major?s attention wandered. He never did finished the story? |
Engelse romans |
SCH-04747 |
Cards on the Table |
CHRISTIE Agatha |
Mr Shaitana was famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he was a man of whom everybody was a little afraid. So, when he boasted to Poirot that he considered murder an art form, the detective had some reservations about accepting a party invitation to view Shaitana's private collection. Indeed, what began as an absorbing evening of bridge was to turn into a more dangerous game altogether... |
Engelse romans |
SCH-04746 |
By the Pricking of My Thumbs |
CHRITIE Agatha |
When Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they think nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada is a very difficult old lady.
But when Mrs. Lockett mentions a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs. Lancaster talks about something behind the fireplace, Tommy and Tuppence find themselves caught up in a spine-chilling adventure that could spell death for either of them . . .
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Engelse romans |
SCH-04745 |
The Body in the Library |
CHRISTIE Agatha |
It?s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to findthe body of a young woman in their library.She is wearing an evening dress and heavy makeup,which is now smeared across her cheeks. But whois she? How did she get there? And what is theconnection with another dead girl, whose charredremains are later discovered in an abandonedquarry? The respectable Bantrys invite Miss Marpleto solve the mystery . . . before tongues start to wag. |
Engelse romans |
SCH-04743 |
After the Funeral |
CHRISTIE Agatha |
When Cora Lansquenet is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard?s funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richard?s will, Cora was clearly heard to say,?It?s been hushed up very nicely, hasn?t it.?But he was murdered, wasn?t he??
In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to unravel the mystery.?
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Engelse romans |