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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 15
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English
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Linnet Doyle is young, beautiful, and rich. She's the girl who has everything-including the man her best friend loves. Linnet and her new husband take a cruise on the Nile, where they meet the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot. It should be an idyllic trip, yet Poirot has a vague, uneasy feeling that something is dangerously amiss.
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Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 8
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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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
Hilary Craven is about to end her life when Jessop, a British agent, asks her help in finding several of the world's leading scientists who have recently vanished. Assuming the identity of a physicist's wife, she infiltrates a secret Moroccan laboratory and discovers a global conspiracy. The information she has could cost her her life, just when she has realized how much she wants to live.
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Publisher
AudioGO
Pub. Date
[2011], p1998
Language
English
Description
A dog-shaped gunpowder mark; an omen from "the other side"; a haunted house; a chilling séance; a case of split personalities; a recurring nightmare; an eerie wireless message; an elderly lady's hold over a young man; a mysterious SOS--unexplained phenomena with no apparent earthly explanation.
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The indomitable sleuth Miss Marple is led to a small town with shameful secrets in Agatha Christie's classic detective story, The Moving Finger.
Lymstock is a town with more than its share of scandalous secrets—a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate mail causes only a minor stir.
But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs. Symmington, commits suicide. Her final note says "I can't go on,"
...8) Nemesis
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English
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When Jane Marple receives an unusual letter from Jason Rafiel, a week after his death, she is led into a web of suspense.
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English
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Tommy and Tuppence Beresford were restless for adventure, so when they were asked to take over Blunt's International Detective Agency, they leapt at the chance. After their triumphant recovery of a pink pearl, intriguing cases kept on coming their way: a stabbing on Sunningdale golf course; cryptic messages in the personal columns of newspapers; and even a box of poisoned chocolates.
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Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 29
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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The smuggled jewels of a Middle East sheik, revolution in Ramat, and murder at an exclusive English girls' school hold a curious connection for detective Hercule Poirot.
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 34
Language
English
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Arthritic and immobilized, Hercule Poirot takes up his last case, relying on old friend Captain Hastings to be his eyes and ears as he hunts down the slipperiest criminal of his career.
14) N or M?
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English
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Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, two unlikely spies, help to defend their country by trying to rout out two highly placed Fifth Columnists. When Tommy is asked by the British Intelligence Service to go and stay at the Sans Souci guest house he is astonished to see Tuppence there. The mission: to identify which of the other guests is N and which is M. - Publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
℗2004
Language
English
Description
Miss Marple, Agatha Christie's deceptively mild spinster sleuth, is being treated to a few day's holiday by her niece, staying at Bertram's Hotel, a dignified, unostentatious establishment tucked away in a back street of busy Mayfair. Here is a place where sedate upper class ladies, retired military gentlemen and the higher echelons of the clergy can indulge in the comforts of a bygone age. But Miss Marple begins to feel uneasy. Something sinister...
17) Murder is easy
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English
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"Luke Fitzwilliam does not believe Miss Pinkerton's wild allegation that a multiple murderer is at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood and that her local doctor is next in line. But within hours, Miss Pinkerton has been killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Mere coincidence? Luke is inclined to think so--until he reads in the Times of the unexpected demise of Wychwood's Dr. Humbleby ..."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 27
Publisher
Audio Partners
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Description
When Miss Lemon, Hercule Poirot's impeccable secretary, presents him with a freshly typed letter with three mistakes in it, he realizes that something is seriously wrong.
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 25
Language
English
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Description
Mrs. McGinty died from a blow to the back of her head. Suspicion falls immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes reveal traces of the victim's blood and hair. Yet something is amiss -- Bentley just doesn't seem like a murderer. Approached by soon to be retired police superintendent Spence -- who's convinced the wrong man has been convicted of the crime -- Hercule Poirot begins an investigation into the brutal murder of an old...
Author
Series
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
℗2007
Language
English
Description
Collected in one fabulous set, Agatha Christie's peerless detective in fourteen of his greatest cases, presented by a full cast! Agatha Christie's greatest sleuth in fourteen of his greatest cases, including Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, and Evil Under the Sun. Drawn from Christie dramas that originally aired on BBC Radio 4, all episodes star John Moffatt as the unruffled Poirot. - Publisher.
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