Полицейский детектив — Агата Кристи

Реально ли совершить идеальное убийство? Может ли преступник действовать настолько осторожно, с таким мастерством, что разоблачить его не сумеет даже самый проницательный полицейский? Члены Детективного клуба Марджери Аллингем, Рональд Нокс, Энтони Беркли, Рассел Торндайк, Дороти Л. Сэйерс, Фриман Уиллс Крофтс написали для этого сборника по детективному рассказу, предлагая инспектору Скотленд-Ярда разобрать изложенное дело. Сумели ли члены Детективного клуба совершить идеальное убийство? Или...

Get all five Tommy & Tuppence adventures for the first time in one ebook.Tommy and Tuppence, two young people short of money and restless for excitement, embark on a daring business scheme – Young Adventurers Ltd.Their advertisement says they are ‘willing to do anything, go anywhere’, and their first assignment plunges them into more danger than they ever imagined. In their second book they take over Blunt’s International Detective Agency, and in their third they are on the trail of wartime...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.A rich woman’s decline into poverty is seemingly arrested when she takes the opportunity to live at the late Lord Listerdale’s residence for next to nothing. Her family believe it is too good to be true – what’s the catch?

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.After being fired from his uncle’s firm for his playboy antics, George Rowland decides to leave London on a whim. Waiting for his train to depart from Waterloo, a beautiful young girl dashes in and begs him to hide her. Wrapped up in the excitement he agrees to follow a suspicious looking man and guard a packet for her. But he soon finds that she isn’t quite as innocent as she looks…

В ежегоднике представлены три различных произведения детективного жанра. Венгерская повесть Д. Фалуша и Г. Йожефа «Операция „Катамаран“» основана на документальных фактах и написана как политический детектив. Роман датского писателя Л. Лундгорда «Падение» относится к так называемому «полицейскому» детективу. Роман «После похорон» принадлежит перу одного из самых популярных авторов детективного жанра, признанному мастеру традиционного детектива — английской писательнице Агате Кристи.

Hercule Poirot returns in another brilliant murder mystery that can only be solved by the eponymous Belgian detective and his ‘little grey cells’.‘What I intend to say to you will come as a shock . . .’Lady Athelinda Playford has planned a house party at her mansion in Clonakilty, County Cork, but it is no ordinary gathering. As guests arrive, Lady Playford summons her lawyer to make an urgent change to her will – one she intends to announce at dinner that night. She has decided to cut off her...

This new edition, which is reproduced from a first printing of the book, is introduced by the author Martin Edwards, archivist of the Detection Club, and includes a never-before-published Preface by Agatha Christie, ‘Detective Writers in England’, in which she discusses her fellow writers in the Detection Club.Lord Comstock is a barbarous newspaper tycoon with enemies in high places. His murder in the study of his country houseposes a dilemma for the Home Secretary. In the hours before his...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Mr Davenheim, a wealthy financier, leaves his home to mail a letter, then fails to return. The story fills the newspapers and intrigues Hercule Poirot, who challenges Inspector Japp that he can solve the case before the police, and without leaving his flat.

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.George’s day couldn’t get any worse when he is fired by his uncle for not grasping the golden ball of opportunity. Within hours he finds himself engaged to be married and the participant in an armed heist…

A wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place…The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara , Nurse Craven, Colonel Luttrell and his charming wife, Daisy, and the charismatic Boyd-Carrington.So Hastings was shocked to...

Agatha Christie’s audacious murder mystery, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been gabbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a massive seizure. But for whom was the deadly poison really intended?Marina’s frozen expression suggested she had witnessed something horrific. But, while others searched for material evidence, Jane Marple...

Evidence that clears the name of a boy sentenced for killing his adopted mother arrives too late to save his life – so who did kill her?According to the courts, Jacko Argyle bludgeoned his mother to death with a poker. The sentence was life imprisonmentBut when Dr Arthur Calgary turns up a year later with the proof that confirms Jacko’s innocence, he is too late – Jacko died behind bars from a bout of pneumonia.Worse still, the doctor’s revelations re-open old wounds in the family, increasing...