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Linnet Doyle has everything: beauty, money… and her best friend's fiance. But Linnet's honeymoon cruise down the Nile River turns into a nightmare when one of the passengers is found murdered. Hercule Poirot must find the murderer before more passengers die, in Agatha Christie's popular classic novel.
Adaptation and activities by Janet Cameron.
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
A classic Poirot investigation, Elephants Can Remember has the expert detective delving into an unsolved crime from the past involving the strange death of a husband and wife. Hercule Poirot stood on the clifftop. Here, many years earlier, there had been a fatal accident. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two bodies-a husband and wife who had been shot dead.But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves into the past and...
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Agatha Christie's world-famous mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U.N.Owen. Over dinner, a record begins to play, and the voice of an unseen host accuses each person of hiding a guilty secret. That evening, former reckless driver Tony Marston is found murdered by a deadly...
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
A healthy young man dies in his sleep, despite the ringing of eight separate alarm clocks... Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper; so the other house guests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off, one after the other, starting at 6.30 a.m. But when morning arrived, one clock was missing and the prank had backfired with tragic consequences. For Jimmy Thesiger in particular, the words `Seven Dials' were to take on a new and chilling...
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
'Take this Hercules - this hero! Hero, indeed! What was he but a large muscular creature of low intelligence and criminal tendencies?' In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet - reasoned the detective - like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters. So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot made up his mind to accept just twelve more cases: his self-imposed 'Labours'. Each would go down in the annals...
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
| Жанр | Современная зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
On a French golf course, a millionaire is found stabbed in the back. An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course. But why is the dead man wearing his son's overcoat? And who was the impassioned love-letter in the pocket for? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identically murdered corpse.
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
At an apparently respectable dinner party, a vicar is the first to die...
Thirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actor's house. 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 great detective, there was absolutely no motive...
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Hercule Poirot’s interest. But when he saw the list of stolen and vandalized items – including a stethoscope, some old flannel trousers, a box of chocolates, a slashed rucksack and a diamond ring found in a bowl of soup – he congratulated the warden, Mrs Hubbard, on a ‘unique and beautiful problem’. The list made absolutely no sense at all. But, reasoned Poirot, if this was merely a petty thief at...
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Pretty, young Anne Beddingfield has come to London looking for adventure. But adventure finds her when a strange-smelling man falls off an Underground platform and is electrocuted on the rails. The police verdict is accidental death. But who was the man in the brown suit who examined the body before running away? Armed with only one cryptic clue, Anne is determined to track him down and bring the mysterious killer to justice.
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
The master of a Victorian mansion dies suddenly – and his sister is convinced it was murder…. When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard’s funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richard’s will, Cora was clearly heard to say: ‘It’s been hushed up very nicely, hasn’t it…But he was murdered, wasn’t he?’ In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to unravel the mystery.
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Unpleasant things are going on in an exclusive school for girls – things like murder… Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of the unpopular games mistress – shot through the heart from point blank range. The school is thrown into chaos when the ‘cat’ strikes again. Unfortunately, schoolgirl Julia Upjohn knows too much. In particular, she knows...
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Издание полностью на английском языке.
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 present on that fateful night would ever forget the woman's face, contorted beyond recognition - or what they remembered about her astonishing life.
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Roger Ackroyd is a man who knows too much.
He knows the woman he loved poisoned her first husband. He knows someone was blackmailing her - and now he knows she killed herself.
When Roger Ackroyd is found murdered, the famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, is called in to find out who the killer is.
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Agatha Christie's famous Miss Marple mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful 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 said 'I can't go on'. Only Miss Marple questions the coroner's verdict of suicide. Was...
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
A priest's death leads to sinister goings-on in an old country pub...To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning? Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman's head? Or was it when the priest's assailant searched him so roughly he tore the clergyman's cassock? Or could it have been the priest's visit, just minutes before, to a woman on her death bed? Or was there a deeper...
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Un vol de bijoux dans une station balneaire a la mode, une femme poignardee dans sa chambre d'hotel, une celebre actrice assassinee dans une maison blanche. Trois mysteres proposes a la perspicacite de trois detectives etonnants : Hercule Poirot, miss Marple et les epoux Berensford. Mais sauront-ils resoudre ces enigmes ? Bibliocollege propose : • le texte integral annote de trois nouvelles, • des questionnaires au fil du texte, • des illustrations originales, • une presentation d'Agatha...
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
| Жанр | Литература на французском языке |
Издание полностью на английском языке.
The Leonides were one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That was until the head of the household, Aristide, was murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection. Suspicion naturally falls on the old man's young widow, fifty years his junior. But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward, fiance of the late millionare's granddaughte.
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
В романе «Скрюченный домишко» Агата Кристи предлагает читателю окунуться в мир совершенного в большом семействе преступления, в котором пострадал престарелый основатель большого бизнеса, миллионер грек Аристид Леонидис.
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.Он обеспечил состоянием всю семью, каждого, даже самого маленького ее члена. Кому была выгодна его смерть? Кому мешал крепкий старик?
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.Раскрыть запутанное преступление поможет внимательное чтение, подробные комментарии и небольшой словарик, данный в конце книги.
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |