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Pochi personaggi, nella storia della letteratura poliziesca, possono vantare una carriera lunga e fortunata come quella di Hercule Poirot. Nato nel 1920 e scomparso nel 1975, un anno prima della sua autrice, Poirot è ancora oggi uno dei personaggi più popolari e amati dai lettori di tutto il mondo. Piccolo, grassottello, con baffetti militareschi arricciati sulle punte e la testa "a forma d'uovo", piena di attivissime cellule grigie, il più famoso investigatore dopo Sherlock Holmes ha partecipato con successo a numerose indagini considerate pietre miliari della narrativa gialla.

The world’s most beloved detective, Hercule Poirot – the legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and currently The Haunting in Venice – returns in a stylish, diabolically clever mystery set in 1930’s London. ‘Murder! Me? How dare you!’ Hercule Poirot’s...

Embárcate en una intrigante aventura llena de giros sorprendentes con el audiolibro dramatizado de La Locura de Greenshaw de Agatha Christie. Cuando el escritor Raymond West y su amigo Horace Bindler deciden visitar La Locura de Greenshaw, una mansión tan excéntrica como su nombre, no imaginan que se encontrarán en medio de un misterio enigmático. La extraña construcción, con su mezcla de estilos arquitectónicos y su aura de secretos antiguos, es el hogar de la última descendiente de los Greenshaw, una mujer de carácter peculiar y rodeada de misterio.

Una nueva inquilina se instala en el tercer piso de las Mansiones Whitehaven, la residencia de Poirot, pero esa misma noche muere asesinada. Cuando se descubre el cuerpo, el detective investiga.

Sumérgete en un misterio lleno de suspense y aventura en el audiolibro dramatizado Lingotes de Oro de Agatha Christie. En las traicioneras costas de Cornualles, Raymond West se une a John Newman, un hombre obsesionado con la leyenda de un galeón español naufragado allí, cargado de oro. Mientras investigan el misterioso naufragio y buscan el tesoro perdido en Polperran, descubren que no son los únicos interesados en el preciado botín.

Dieci piccoli indiani è considerato il romanzo giallo in assoluto più venduto, un best seller dal 1939, anno della sua pubblicazione...

Durante una elegante velada en la alta sociedad londinense, las valiosas joyas del excéntrico coleccionista Marcus Hardman desaparecen de su caja fuerte, desatando el escándalo entre sus selectos invitados. Desesperado por evitar el escarnio público, Hardman recurre al legendario Hércules Poirot, quien deberá desenredar una trama donde nada es lo que parece y cada pista puede ser un engaño. ¿Quién es el verdadero culpable? ¿El joven Parker, la enigmática condesa rusa Vera Rossakoff o quizá alguien aún más inesperado?

Dopo cinquantacinque anni l'anziano Hercule Poirot torna a Styles Court, il luogo in cui aveva risolto il suo primo famoso caso di omicidio, ora trasformato in una raffinata pensione. E qui incontra il vecchio amico, il capitano Hastings, per rivelargli che tra gli ospiti si nasconde un assassino. Infatti, a dimostrare la tesi di Poirot, Styles Court viene funestata da un nuovo delitto, un omicidio così misterioso da far sospettare di tutti, persino della figlia di Hastings.

"Traitor's Hands" is a short story by Agatha Christie that was published in Flynn's, a weekly pulp magazine, in the edition of 31 January 1925. This short story was later published as "Witness for the Prosecution".

Un enfermo terminal pide a Poirot que sea el ejecutor de su nuevo testamento, pero es asesinado antes de poder redactarlo. Además, la antigua voluntad del fallecido también ha sido robada.

Agatha Christie’s personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels. Think you know Agatha Christie? Think again! To the world she was Agatha Christie...

Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to "get rid of" her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead. And yet the great Belgian detective couldn't help feeling he was being taken for a ride. After all, how could Jane have stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? And what could be her motive now that the aristocrat had finally granted her a divorce?

Hercule Poirot und Arthur Hastings müssen sich gemeinsam einem teuflisch kniffligen Fall stellen. Poirot hat einen Brief erhalten, der einen Mord durch die Hand seines mysteriösen Absenders, „A.B.C.“, ankündigt. In einem Wettlauf gegen die Zeit müssen die beiden Freunde die komplizierte Logik des Täters durchschauen, bevor am nächsten Ort in alphabetischer Reihenfolge jemand sein Leben verliert. Doch mit jedem Mord kommen mehr und mehr Verdächtige in Frage.

Fast ein Jahr liegt es zurück, dass Rosemary Barton auf ihrer eigenen Geburtstagsfeier an Gift starb. Damals war man sicher: Selbstmord. Jetzt versammeln sich ihre Freunde erneut und diesmal hätte es eine gelungene Geburtstagsfeier werden können. Doch nach und nach tauchen Zweifel an Rosemarys Selbstmord auf, und das Misstrauen wächst - bis schließlich ein zweiter Mord geschieht.

Ten guests travel to an island at the invitation of someone named U.N. Owen. All are strangers, but they have two things in common: they have all been responsible for someone's death, and none will leave the island alive. Over the next two days and nights, each of the guests is killed off in a...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter...

Still in the formative years of his career, Hercule Poirot faces a most taxing case: who killed Lord Cronshaw? Was Coco Courtenay’s death on the same night a mere coincidence? And did she deliberately take an overdose of cocaine? No sooner has Poirot revealed his astonishing powers of...

Nick Buckley was an unusual name for a pretty young woman. But then she had led an unusual life. First, on a treacherous Cornish hillside, the brakes on her car failed. Then, on a coastal path, a falling boulder missed her by inches. Later, an oil painting fell and almost crushed her in bed. Upon discovering a bullet-hole in Nick's sun hat, Hercule Poirot decides the girl needs his protection. At the same time, he begins to unravel the mystery of a murder that hasn't been committed. Yet.

In Agatha Christie’s classic mystery, Cards on the Table, the wily Hercule Poirot is on the case when a bridge night turns deadly Mr. Shaitana is famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he is a man of whom everybody is a little afraid. So when he boasts to Hercule Poirot that he...

Time is ticking away for a murderer in Agatha Christie’s classic, The Clocks, as Hercule Poirot investigates the strange case of a corpse surrounded by numerous timepieces in a blind woman’s house. Sheila Webb expected to find a respectable blind lady waiting for her at 19 Wilbraham...