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Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1983
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A is for Ascher, cudgeled in Andover. B is for Barnard, strangled in Bexhill. C is for Clarke, struck down in Churston. Beside each body is an A.B.C. Railway guide; before each murder Hercule Poirot is notified. In one of Christie's most twisted tales, the meticulous Belgian sleuth must navigate the eerie maze of a serial killer's mind. D is for Doncaster, where the next victim dies ... E is for evidence, ingeniously analyzed.
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Series
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English
Description
When Agatha Christie's beloved amateur sleuth Miss Jane Marple arrives at an elegant resort for a relaxing vacation, she stumbles on a complex web of cold-blooded murders. Armed only with a mind as sharp as her knitting needles, she races against the clock to prevent a murderer from killing ... again. Based on Agatha Christie's Caribbean Mystery.
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English
Description
Agatha Christie, the grand dame of the mystery thriller, spins an Epicurean web of intrigue and murder. When a beautiful but philandering wife dies by poisoning during a dinner party, it looks like suicide. But one by one, the guests reveal a motive to kill ... then they begin to die. Dinner is exquisite, the wine superb--but someone at the party is a murderer. Each twist of the deadly plot uncovers another startling secret. And the evening grows...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Considered one of the greatest mysteries of all times, ten strangers, each with a dark secret, are gathered together on an isolated island by a mysterious host. One by one, they die, and before the weekend is out, there will be none.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift. Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment. Incredibly, that compartment is locked from the inside. With no escape into the wintery landscape the killer must still be on board. Fortunately, the brilliant...
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English
Description
Elspeth McGillicuddy was not a woman usually given to hallucinations. But when she witnesses what appears to be a woman being strangled on a train and no-one else sees it, no-one reports it and no corpse is found she turns to her old friend Jane Marple to help solve the puzzle. Marple asks her highly efficient and intelligent young acquaintance, Lucy Eyelesbarrow to infiltrate the Crackenthorpe family, who seem to be at the heart of the mystery, and...
8) The clocks
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English
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"Sheila Webb expected to find a respectable blind lady waiting for her at 19 Wilbraham Crescent - not the body of a middle-aged man sprawled across the living room floor. But when old Miss Pebmarsh denies sending for her in the first place, or of owning all the clocks that surround the body, it's clear that they are going to need a very good dectective. "This crime is so complicated that it must be quite simple," declares Hercule Poirot. But there's...
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Series
Little Murders of Agatha Christie volume 1
Language
Français
Description
After Inspector Lampion is injured during a police raid, Superintendent Larosière rents a cottage in a small village and begins receiving threatening letters. Based on the Miss Marple novel.
13) Sleeping murder
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Series
Language
English
Description
Although Gwenda and Giles Reed are determined to solve a macabre puzzle involving a hauntingly familiar Victorian villa and a terrifying vision of a strangled woman, Miss Jane Marple advises them not to uncover a long unreported murder.
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Series
Little Murders of Agatha Christie volume 3
Language
Français
Description
Superintendent Larosière runs into his former captain from the Great War, who invites him to his family castle for a big announcement. Based on the Hercule Poirot novel Taken at the Flood.
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Series
Little Murders of Agatha Christie volume 2
Language
Français
Description
Feeling underappreciated, Lampion leaves his post to a join a private investigation firm, and gets a lead on a 15-year-old case. Based on the Hercule Poirot novel.
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Little Murders of Agatha Christie volume 5
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Français
Description
Lampion befriends a young woman who suffers from terrifying visions of a bloody woman. Based on the Miss Marple novel.
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Series
Little Murders of Agatha Christie volume 4
Language
Français
Description
Superintendent Larosière and Inspector Lampion investigate the murder of a woman last seen entering a theater. Based on the Hercule Poirot novel Lord Edgeware Dies.
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