Evil Under the Sun - Agatha Christie

Peril at End House - Agatha Christie

At a resort at St Looe in Cornwall, Poirot is enjoying a holiday with his friend Hastings. Adamant that he has now retired at the pinnacle of his career Poirot refuses to entertain the idea that he will start working again. Until, that is, a chance encounter with a young woman and the discovery that she has had several near misses with death leads him to investigating the circumstances. Initially the aim is simply to discover who is behind the attempted murder, but at a fireworks party matters take a more serious turn. From then on Poirot must use all his wits to solve a murder that appears to be impossible to crack. Throughout this novel Christie has provided the reader with an ...

Peril at End House - Agatha Christie

At a resort at St Looe in Cornwall, Poirot is enjoying a holiday with his friend Hastings. Adamant that he has now retired at the pinnacle of his career Poirot refuses to entertain the idea that he will start working again. Until, that is, a chance encounter with a young woman and the discovery that she has had several near misses with death leads him to investigating the circumstances. Initially the aim is simply to discover who is behind the attempted murder, but at a fireworks party matters take a more serious turn. From then on Poirot must use all his wits to solve a murder that appears to be impossible to crack. Throughout this novel Christie has provided the reader with an ...

The Mystery of the Blue Trai - Agatha Christie

The lives of Katherine Grey and Ruby Kettering could not, for years, be more different from each other. A poorly paid and hard worked companion to an elderly woman, Katherine had seen the last ten years of her life living a safe if rather dull existence in the small village of St Mary Mead (incidentally this story does not feature Miss Marple in any way). In contrast to this Ruby Kettering knew of only luxury, devoted upon by her father who had recently bought her some rubies known as "The Heart of Fire" and able to buy whatever she wanted, if it was not for the unamicable separation between her and her husband and her attempts to keep her new liasons with a former partner hidden ...

The Mystery of the Blue Trai - Agatha Christie

The lives of Katherine Grey and Ruby Kettering could not, for years, be more different from each other. A poorly paid and hard worked companion to an elderly woman, Katherine had seen the last ten years of her life living a safe if rather dull existence in the small village of St Mary Mead (incidentally this story does not feature Miss Marple in any way). In contrast to this Ruby Kettering knew of only luxury, devoted upon by her father who had recently bought her some rubies known as "The Heart of Fire" and able to buy whatever she wanted, if it was not for the unamicable separation between her and her husband and her attempts to keep her new liasons with a former partner hidden ...

Sad Cypress - Agatha Christie

Charged with the murder of Mary Gerrard, the case against Elinor Carlisle was particularly damning. With several motives and ample opportunity available to her, it seemed likely that there could only be one sentence to the charge placed before her, that she would be found guilty and sentenced accordingly. Outwardly cool and reserved, it appeared impossible to many that she would have been capable of committing the act she was accused of, yet who else could have killed, or have wanted to kill, the young daughter of the lodge keeper at the house of Elinor's aunt? Jealousy and attempts to cover up previous crimes and deceptions appeared to be the most likely reasons why Mary had met her death ...

Sad Cypress - Agatha Christie

Charged with the murder of Mary Gerrard, the case against Elinor Carlisle was particularly damning. With several motives and ample opportunity available to her, it seemed likely that there could only be one sentence to the charge placed before her, that she would be found guilty and sentenced accordingly. Outwardly cool and reserved, it appeared impossible to many that she would have been capable of committing the act she was accused of, yet who else could have killed, or have wanted to kill, the young daughter of the lodge keeper at the house of Elinor's aunt? Jealousy and attempts to cover up previous crimes and deceptions appeared to be the most likely reasons why Mary had met her death ...