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Agatha Christie - Page 10

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd The Secret of Chimneys Poirot Investigates The Man in the Brown Suit The Murder on the Links

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Hardback harpercollins (1997)

Paperback - harpercollins (1999)

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Roger Ackroyd knew too much.
He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Now, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with a drug overdose.
Soon the evening post would let him know who the mystery blackmailer was. But Roger was dead before he'd finished reading it - stabbed through the neck where he sat in his study.
The sensational case that made Agatha Christie and Hercule Poirot famous
'A classic - the book has worthily earned its fame' Irish Independent

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Paperback - Pan (1959)

Hardback harpercollins (1998)

The Secret of Chimneys
Little did Anthony Cade suspect that a simple errand on behalf of a friend would make him the centrepiece of a murderous international conspiracy. Someone would stop at nothing to prevent the monarchy being restored in faraway Herzoslovakia.
The combined forces of Scotland Yard and the French Sûreté can do no better than go in circles - until the final murder at Chimneys, the great country estate that yields up an amazing secret. A fascinating trail of clues that leads half-way around the world.

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Hardback harpercollins (1997)

Paperback - harpercollins (2001)

Poirot Investigates
First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond… then came the `suicide’ that was murder ... the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat ... a suspicious death in a locked gun-room ... a million dollar bond robbery ... the curse of a pharaoh’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 will.
What links these fascinating cases? Only the brilliant deductive powers of Hercule Poirot!
‘In straight detective fiction there is still no-one to touch her’ Irish Times
`A capital collection ... ingeniously constructed, and told with an engaging lightness of style.’ Literary Review

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Paperback - Pan (1957)

Hardback harpercollins (1998)

Paperback Pan (1958)

The Man in the Brown Suit
See Review by Martin Edwards - creator of the highly acclaimed, Liverpool based Harry Devlin Mysteries
THE MAN IN THE BROWN SUIT is a remarkably good 'early Christie'.  The narrator of most of the tale is Anne Peddingfeld, a Professor of Anthropology's attractive and enterprising daughter, who witnesses a fatal accident at a London Tube station and is quick to notice some curious features about a man in a brown suit who says he is a doctor.  Having secured an interview with a newspaper proprietor she starts investigating the strange sequel to the mystery - the discovery of a woman's body in a lonely house at Marlow belonging to Sir Eustace Pedlar, a Member of Parliament. Three clues help her - a smell of moth balls, a scrap of paper with some figures and "Kilmorden Castle" written on it, and an unexposed roll of Kodak film.  The trail leads her to South Africa; and travelling on the same ship is Sir Eustace himself, who has been entrusted by a Government department with confidential documents for General Smuts.  The voyage is exciting; and on arriving at Cape Town Anne finds herself plunged in further adventures of a most mysterious kind  This novel is indeed not so much an ingenious puzzle (as most of Agatha Christie's later detective stories are) as a gripping thriller, which will thoroughly entertain all Christie 'fans'.
"The acknowledged Queen of Detective fiction the world over" Observer

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Hardback harpercollins (1998)

The Murder on the Links
See Review by Martin Edwards - creator of the highly acclaimed, Liverpool based Harry Devlin Mysteries
An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course.
But why is the dead man wearing his son's overcoat? And who was the impassioned love-letter in the pocket for? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identically-murdered corpse ...
The identity and motive of the murderer remains in doubt to the very last hole.
"Agatha Christie never lets you down" The Sketch

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