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A young man who has come to the small market town of Lymstock with his sister, Joanna, to recuperate from an accident. An outbreak of poison-pen letters in the village leads to two deaths, the first apparently suicide but the second definitely murder; the letters accuse various villagers of improbable and illicit sexual acts. The vicar's wife, Maud Dane Calthrop, invites her friend Miss Marple to stay at the vicarage, and she solves the puzzle alongside...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
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Considered the best mystery novel ever written by many readers, And Then There Were None is the story of 10 strangers, each lured to Indian Island by a mysterious host. Once his guests have arrived, the host accuses each person of murder. Unable to leave the island, the guests begin to share their darkest secrets--until they begin to die. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Hercule Poirot and his good friend Captain Hastings are enjoying a well-deserved break on the Cornish Riviera, in the idyllic village of St Loo. Wandering along the terrace of the Hotel Majestic on the first morning of their stay, Poirot literally falls at the feet of a pretty, dark-haired girl and, much to Hastings' delight, insists that she join them for a cocktail...
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
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It was the match-up of the century: four sleuths--Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard; Mrs. Ariadne Oliver, famed writer of detective stories; Col. Race of His Majesty's Secret Service; and the incomparable Hercule Poirot - invited to play bridge with four specially invited guests, each of whom had gotten away with murder! But before the first rubber was completed, the host was dead.
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It's seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing an evening dress and heavy makeup, which is now smeared across her cheeks. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is the connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry? The respectable Bantrys invite Miss Marple into their home to investigate. Amid rumors of scandal, she baits...
9) The clocks
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Old Miss Pembmarsh discovers four strange clocks and a dead man in her living room.
10) The hollow
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The victim--an extraordinarily vital, emotionally complex doctor--was the last person anyone expected to see lying dead by the pool. And his meek, befuddled wife was the last person anyone would expect to see standing over him with a gun. Did she really shoot her husband? Or is she merely a second victim in a brilliantly planned plot by a daring, cunning murderer? To find the answers, Poirot delves deep into the character of the victim and those in...
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A simple case of theft turns into a triple murder. The girl was dead, clearly a case of suicide. "Or was it suicide," Hercule Poirot mused. Applying his shrewd mind to the disorderly facts and events surrounding the senseless thefts and the subsequent death of the girl, Poirot realized that the suicide really had been murder. Was it part of a larger scheme? Before he could act, there was a second murder, and then a third. Which of this international...
12) Death in the air
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1986, 1935.
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Poirot is on a flight from Paris to London when a woman is found to have died during the flight. She was apparently murdered with a blowgun dart poisoned with snake venom. All of the passengers are under suspicion even though it seems no one came near the victim.
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