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Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The new-look series of Hercule Poirot books for the 21st century. Thirteen guests for dinner. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, went into convulsions and died. But when his martini glass was sent for chemical analysis, there was no trace of poison — just as Poirot had predicted. Even more troubling for the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The new-look series of Miss Marple books for the 21st century. The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which reads: A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.p.m. A childish practical joke? Or a hoax intended to scare poor Letitia Blacklock? Unable to resist the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The new-look series of Hercule Poirot books for the 21st century. 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 victims blood and hair. Yet something was amiss: Bentley just didnt look like a murderer. Poirot believed he could save the man from the gallows — what he didnt realise…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A full-cast dramatisation of Agatha Christies novel featuring Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: The owner of a seaside villa is plagued by strange feelings about its past... Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs! In fear, Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Sir George and Lady Stubbs hit upon the idea of staging a mock murder mystery. Ariadne Oliver, a well known crime writer, agrees to organize their murder hunt. Despite weeks of planning, Ariadne calls in Hercule Poirot, as instinctively she senses that something sinister is about to happen.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A new signature edition of Agatha Christies thriller, featuring the recurring character of Colonel Race from «Death on the Nile», «Cards on the Table» and «The Man in the Brown Suit». Six people sit down to dinner at a table laid for seven. In front of the empty place is a sprig of rosemary — in solemn memory of Rosemary Barton who died at the same table exactly one year previously. No one…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 697 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 334) Аннотация: It is Egypt in 2000 ВС, where death gives meaning to life. At the foot of a cliff lies the broken, twisted body of Nofret, concubine to a Ka-priest. Young, beautiful and venomous, most agree that it was fate — she deserved to die like a snake! But at her father's house on the banks of the Nile, the priest's daughter Renisenb believes that the woman's death was suspicious. Increasingly, she…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful. A girl who had everything... until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: 'I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.' Yet in this exotic setting…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, only one man still presumed Elinor was innocent until proven guilty: Hercule Poirot was all that stood between Elinor and the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 289 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 254) Аннотация: Le 31 octobre, les sorcières s'envolent sur leur manche à balai: c'est Halloween, la fête du potiron. A cette occasion, Mrs Drake a organisé une soirée pour les «plus de onze ans». Les enfants participent aux préparatifs, sous l'œil nonchalant de Mrs Oliver, qui croque son éternelle pomme. «Savez-vous que j'ai eu l'occasion d'assister à un vrai…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 090 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 215) Аннотация: When Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they think nothing of her mistrust of the doctors. But when the other residents talk of a poisoned mushroom stew and something behind the fireplace, they begin to take notice. Издание полностью на английском языке.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The beautiful bronzed body of Arlena Stuart lay face down on the beach. But strangely, there was no sun and Arlena was not sun-bathing... she had been strangled. Ever since Arlena's arrival the air had been thick with sexual tension. Each of the guests had a motive to kill her, including Arlena's new husband, but Hercule Poirot suspects that this apparent «crime of passion» conceals something…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 406 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 277) Аннотация: How odd, Anne Beddingfeld thought, that the stranger caught her eye, recoiled in horror, and fell to his death on the rails of Hyde Park Underground Station. Odder still was a doctor in a brown suit who pronounced him dead and vanished into the crowd. But what really aroused Anne's suspicion was when she learned of the doctor's link to the murder of a famous ballerina, a fortune in hidden…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: When Clarissa stumbles upon a corpse in her drawing room, she decides that she must dispose of it before her husband arrives with an important foreign dignitary and persuades her three house guests to assist her in the endeavor, but her efforts are threatened by the arrival of a police officer who has come in response to an anonymous tip about a murder.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Esteemed criminologist Mr. Treves notes that a good murder mystery begins long before the actual murder. Truer words have never been spoken, for a psychopathic killer insinuates himself with cunning manipulation into a quiet village on the river Tern. But who is his intended victim? And how and when will he reach the point of murder?

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: The life of Agatha Christie as told by herself. It covers her childhood, her first marriage, the birth of her daughter Rosalind, her second marriage to archaeologist Max Mallowan, and an account of her legendary career as a novelist and playwright.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 187 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 234) Аннотация: Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. «Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?» she muses. She has the chance to find out when she discovers a body — in her drawing-room! Desperate to dispose of it, she persuades her guests to help her, all the time knowing that one of them must also be the killer. Now,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: First published in 1941, this crime story finds Tommy and Tuppence Beresford in a prim seaside boarding house, frequented by genteel old ladies and retired army officers. But one of them is a spy, leader of the fifth column of highly placed traitors.