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Death on the Nile / Agatha Christie
London : HarperCollins, 2020
And then there were none / Agatha Christie
80th anniversary ed.
London : Harper Collins, 2019
Abstract: Un gruppo di persone, tra di loro estranee, riceve l'invito del misterioso Mr Owen a recarsi per un fine settimana in una villa su un'isola. Il padrone di casa non è, però, presente ad accoglierli. Poco dopo, gli invitati cominciano ad essere assassinati uno alla volta seguendo le strofe di una filastrocca per bambini... Il capolavoro di Agatha Christie celebra il suo ottantesimo anniversario.
Murder on the Orient Express / Agatha Christie
Paperback edition
London : Harper Collins, 2017
Death comes as the end / Agatha Christie
London : Harper Collins, 2017
Abstract: A novel of anger, jealousy, betrayal and murder in 2000 BCIt is Egypt, 2000 BC, where death gives meaning to life. At the foot of a cliff lies the broken, twisted body of Nofret, concubine to a Ka-priest. Young, beautiful and venomous, most agree that she deserved to die like a snake.Yet Renisenb, the priest's daughter, believes that the woman's death was not fate, but murder. Increasingly, she becomes convinced that the source of evil lurks within her own father's household.As the wife of an eminent archaeologist, Agatha Christie took part in several expeditions to the Middle East. Drawing upon this experience and exhaustive research, she wrote this serial killer mystery laid in Egypt 4000 years ago.
Paris : France Loisirs, 2017
Abstract: Roger Ackroyd se confie un soir à son vieil ami le Dr Sheppard. Il était sur le point d'épouser une jeune et richissime veuve quand celle-ci a mis fin à ses jours pour échapper à un affreux chantage. Dans sa dernière lettre elle lui livre un secret terrible : un an plus tôt, elle a assassiné son mari !
Paris : France Loisirs, 2017
Abstract: Quel lien peut-il bien y avoir entre un vol de diamants, un accident dans le métro londonien et la macabre découverte du corps d’une inconnue dans une villa déserte ? Anne Beddingfeld, une jeune orpheline éprise d’aventure, s'attaque à l'affaire. Un même suspect s'est trouvé à chaque fois sur les lieux, toujours vêtu d’un complet marron…
The thirteen problems / Agatha Christie
London : HarperCollins, 2016
The body in the library / Agatha Christie
London : HarperCollins, 2016
Abstract: Agatha Christie's world-famous Miss Marple mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. It's seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing evening dress and heavy make-up, which is now smeared across her cheeks. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is the connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry? The respectable Bantrys invite Miss Marple to solve the mystery... before tongues start to wag.
Hickory Dickory Dock / Agatha Christie
New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2015
Abstract: An outbreak of apparent kleptomania at a student hostel is not normally the sort of crime that arouses Hercule Poirot's interest, but it is a bizarre list of stolen and vandalised items: a stethoscope, some lightbulbs, some old flannel trousers, a box of chocolates, a slashed rucksack, some boracic powder and a diamond ring later found in a bowl of a soup. Celia Austin quickly confesses to the pettier incidents to attract the attention of a male student. The next morning she is discovered dead from an overdose of morphine, and Poirot sees through the attempts to make her death seem like suicide
Death on the Nile / Agatha Cristie
London : Harper, 2014
Abstract: The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything - until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalls 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 is ever quite what it seems.
Evil under the sun / Agatha Christie
London : HarperCollins, 2014
Abstract: Agatha Christie's exotic seaside mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. It was not unusual to find the beautiful bronzed body of the sun-loving Arlena Stuart stretched out on a beach, face down. Only, on this occasion, there was no sun...she had been strangled. Ever since Arlena's arrival at the resort, Hercule Poirot had detected sexual tension in the seaside air. But could this apparent 'crime of passion' have been something more evil and premeditated altogether?
Five little pigs / Agatha Christie
London : HarperCollins, 2013
Abstract: Agatha Christie's ingenious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.
Hercule Poirot's Christmas / Agatha Christie
London : HarperCollins, 2013
Abstract: Agatha Christie's seasonal mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed.But when Hercule Poirot, who is staying in the village with a friend for Christmas, offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man...
Three blind mice and other stories / Agatha Christie
New York : William Morrow, 2012
And then there were none / Agatha Christie
New York : Harper Collins, 2011
And then there were none / Agatha Christie ; retold by Izabella Hearn
Harlow : Pearson, 2011
Abstract: Ten strangers are invited to an island off the Devon coast. Most are happy to be there. But then, very soon, one of them is dead. What is happening? Is it murder? Is the killer one of them – or the mysterious Mr Owen? And are the other guests in danger too?
The body in the library : a Miss Marple mystery / Agatha Christie
New York [etc.] : Harper, 2011
Abstract: 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.
The mirror crack'd from side to side : a Miss Marple mystery / Agatha Christie
New York [etc.] : Harper, 2011
Abstract: After the death of her husband, Dolly Bantry sold Gossington Hall to the former film star Marina Gregg and her husband. When the glamorous couple decide to throw a benefit party for the local hospital, the grounds are thronged with curious visitors, and for one of them, the day ends in tragedy.
They do it with mirrors : a Miss Marple mystery / Agatha Christie
[London] : William Morrow, 2011
The murder of Roger Ackroyd : a Hercule Poirot mystery / Agatha Christie
[London] : William Morrow, 2011