Приключения — Агата Кристи

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.After inheriting a haunted house too expensive to maintain Monica Dean is facing financial ruin. She comes to Tommy and Tuppence in the hope to save herself by solving the mystery of the poltergeist and the persistent man who wants to buy the house…

Перевела с английского Татьяна МИРОЛЮБОВА. На I и IV стр. обложки и на стр. 2, 13 и 21 рисунки И. АЙДАРОВА. На стр. 85 рисунок В. КОВАЛЕВА. На II и III стр. обложки и на стр. 96 и 109 рисунки Ю. МАКАРОВА.

A young woman with nothing to live for is persuaded to embark on a suicide mission to find a missing scientist…When a number of leading scientists disappear without trace, concern grows within the international intelligence community. Are they being kidnapped? Blackmailed? Brainwashed?One woman appears to have the key to the mystery. Unfortunately, Olive Betteron now lies in a hospital bed, dying from injuries sustained in a Moroccan plane crash.Meanwhile, in a Casablanca hotel room, Hilary...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Scotland Yard ask the Beresfords to infiltrate a gang to find the source of counterfeit money. Delighted at the chance to use the methods of Edgar Wallace, they revel in gambling, drinking and the affections of the opposite sex while chasing a trail of crisp counterfeit notes…

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.The adventures of the Beresfords are coming to an end. But not without a close shave involving Russian spies, code words and a dose of anaesthetic. Can Tommy and Tuppence survive and be able to begin their new life?

An old woman in a nursing home speaks of a child buried behind the fireplace…When Tommy and Tuppence visited an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they thought nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada was a very difficult old lady.But when Mrs Lockett mentioned a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs Lancaster talked about ‘something behind the fireplace’, Tommy and Tuppence found themselves caught up in an unexpected adventure involving possible black magic…

Содержание: • Джон Криси. Инспектор Уэст в одиночестве (начало романа, перевод Дмитрия Розанова) • Евгений Сыч. Ангел гибели (повесть) • Агата Кристи. Чего стоит жемчужина (рассказ, перевод Анжелики Оселедько и Владимира Постникова) Оформление и иллюстрации Бориса Ионайтиса.

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Tommy and Tuppence set up the International Detective Agency, but don’t seem able to attract any clients. Unexpectedly, a trip to a hat shop leads to a missing person case…

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.In order to help a young man impress the woman he wants to marry, the Beresfords are enlisted to crack her near impossible alibi and claim of being in two places at once. Tommy and Tuppence set out to uncover the truth…

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.An ambassador’s bag is mistakenly switched after a cruise, but nothing has been stolen. Unsettled by the incident, he employs the help of Tommy and Tuppence to investigate the matter. But the Beresfords uncover a sinister crime behind the seemingly trivial mix up…

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Amateur detectives Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are fascinated by the case of a man murdered using a hat pin. Unsatisfied by the arrest of a woman, the couple deconstruct the case to find the real killer…

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.At lunch, Tommy is imitating the ‘blind problemist’ Thornley Colton using Tuppence as his ‘eyes’, when a Duke asks for their help to find his missing daughter. Tommy hasn’t quite mastered the use of his heightened senses when he finds himself without Tuppence and in danger…

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Sane and sensible Edward Robinson secretly dreams of fast cars, adventurous women and danger, but his fiancée, Maud, keeps him grounded in reality. When Edward wins money in a newspaper competition, he immediately buys the sleek red car of his dreams – without telling Maud. Adventure swiftly ensues, as he is embroiled in high society scandals that lead him to a significant transformation.