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Agatha Christie - Page 4
Agatha Christie
After the Funeral
Mrs McGinty's DeadMrs McGinty's Dead
They Do It with MirrorsThey Do It with Mirrors
They Came to BaghdadThey Came to Baghdad
Taken at the FloodTaken at the Flood


Buy at Amazon.co.uk After the Funeral
See Review by Martin Edwards - creator of the highly acclaimed, Liverpool based Harry Devlin Mysteries
When Cora 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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Hardback
harpercollins (2001)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk Mrs McGinty's Dead
See Review by Martin Edwards - creator of the highly acclaimed, Liverpool based Harry Devlin Mysteries
Mrs McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion fell immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes revealed traces of the victim's blood and hair. Yet something was amiss: Bentley just didn't look like a murderer.
Poirot believed he could save the man from the gallows – what he didn't realise was that his own life was now in great danger…
'So simple, so economical, so completely baffling. Every clue scrupulously given, with superb slight of hand.' Sunday Times


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harpercollins (2001)
Paperback - harpercollins (2002)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk They Do It with Mirrors
See Review by Martin Edwards - creator of the highly acclaimed, Liverpool based Harry Devlin Mysteries
Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in a Victorian mansion which doubles as a rehabilitiation centre for delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when a youth fires a revolver at the administrator, Lewis Serrocold. Neither is injured. But a mysterious visitor, Mr Gilbrandsen, is less fortunate – shot dead simultaneously in another part of the building.
Pure coincidence? Miss Marple thinks not, and vows to discover the real reason for Mr Gilbrandsen’s visit.


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Hardback
harpercollins (2001)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk They Came to Baghdad
See Review by Martin Edwards - creator of the highly acclaimed, Liverpool based Harry Devlin Mysteries
Baghdad is the chosen location for a secret superpower summit. Unfortunately the word is out, and an underground organisation in the Middle East is plotting to sabotage the talks.
Into this explosive situation skips Victoria Jones, a girl with a yearning for adventure who gets more than she bargains for when a wounded agent dies in her hotel room. Now, if only she could make sense of his final words: ‘… Lucifer … Basrah … Lefarge …’
'A very human heroine, whose powers of invention, like those of her creator, never fail her' Times Literary Supplement


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Hardback
harpercollins (2000)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk Taken at the Flood
See Review by Martin Edwards - creator of the highly acclaimed, Liverpool based Harry Devlin Mysteries
A few weeks after marrying an attractive yound widow, Gordon Gloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the family fortune.
Shortly afterwards, Hercule Poirot receives a visit from the dead man's sister-in-law, who claims she has been warned by 'spirits' that Mrs Underhay's first husband is still alive. Yet, what mystifies Poirot most is the woman's true motive for approaching him.
'Told briskly, vivaciously, and with ever-fertile imagination.' Manchester Evening News


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