The Mousetrap - Agatha Christie

Death in the Clouds - Agatha Christie

As the air liner Prometheus embarks on its flight from France to Croydon the majority of the passengers and crew presume that the journey will pass without incident. Yet, in one of the compartments someone out of thirteen people is aware that matters will be rather different. A short while after the flight commences a woman by the name of Marie Morisot is found dead in her seat. Suggestions are first given to the possibility of an allergic reaction to a wasp sting, since that creature was flying round the plane at the time. Yet the discovery of first a dart and then, later, a blowpipe, points to a different interpretation of events and it soon becomes evident that the woman was murdered. ...

Death in the Clouds - Agatha Christie

As the air liner Prometheus embarks on its flight from France to Croydon the majority of the passengers and crew presume that the journey will pass without incident. Yet, in one of the compartments someone out of thirteen people is aware that matters will be rather different. A short while after the flight commences a woman by the name of Marie Morisot is found dead in her seat. Suggestions are first given to the possibility of an allergic reaction to a wasp sting, since that creature was flying round the plane at the time. Yet the discovery of first a dart and then, later, a blowpipe, points to a different interpretation of events and it soon becomes evident that the woman was murdered. ...

The Secret Adversary - Agatha Christie

The Secret Adversary was Agatha Christie s second novel, following The Mysterious Affair at Styles in which she had introduced the characters of Hercule Poirot, Captain Hastings & Inspector Japp. This second novel introduces the characters of Thomas "Tommy" Beresford & Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley who were to appear in three more novels: + N or M + By The Pricking Of My Thumbs + Postern Of Fate and a collection of short stories entitled Partners In Crime. This book differs from its predecessor as (despite the fact that there is one death) it s more of a thriller than the standard murder mystery for which Christie is best known. The book s ...

The Secret Adversary - Agatha Christie

The Secret Adversary was Agatha Christie s second novel, following The Mysterious Affair at Styles in which she had introduced the characters of Hercule Poirot, Captain Hastings & Inspector Japp. This second novel introduces the characters of Thomas "Tommy" Beresford & Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley who were to appear in three more novels: + N or M + By The Pricking Of My Thumbs + Postern Of Fate and a collection of short stories entitled Partners In Crime. This book differs from its predecessor as (despite the fact that there is one death) it s more of a thriller than the standard murder mystery for which Christie is best known. The book s ...

Curtain: Poirot's Last Case - Agatha Christie

The final case for Hercule Poirot!! as it seems Hercule poirot and the ever faithful captain Hastings have come around in a full circle- back the country house styles where they solved their first case ready to solve what would be their last. this time the guests at the mysterious and somewhat haunting house include Hastings beloved daughter Judith, Colonel Lutterel and his wife, a Dr Franklin and his wife, one stephen norton and a nurse elizabeth. Poirot himself is now old and crippled due to arthiritus but continuely insits that his little grey cells are working just fine. when hastings arrives the first thing he does is show him 5 newspaper cuttings of apparently ...

Curtain: Poirot's Last Case - Agatha Christie

The final case for Hercule Poirot!! as it seems Hercule poirot and the ever faithful captain Hastings have come around in a full circle- back the country house styles where they solved their first case ready to solve what would be their last. this time the guests at the mysterious and somewhat haunting house include Hastings beloved daughter Judith, Colonel Lutterel and his wife, a Dr Franklin and his wife, one stephen norton and a nurse elizabeth. Poirot himself is now old and crippled due to arthiritus but continuely insits that his little grey cells are working just fine. when hastings arrives the first thing he does is show him 5 newspaper cuttings of apparently ...