検索キーワード： 著者 "Agatha Christie" すべてのカテゴリー

En ung kvinna begår självmord när hennes rumskamrat är borta över helgen. Men det är något som inte stämmer och därför ringer man Hercule Poirot för att försöka få klarhet. En man har utpressat den avlidna. Kan han också ha mördat henne? Hastings och Poirot är inte överens, och när sanningen kommer fram är svaret till allas stora förvåning.

Una antologia policial unica. Alrededor de tres de los mas grandes y famosos detectives de la novela policial se ha hecho esta antologia que presenta historias protagonizadas por Sherlock Holmes, un genio de la deduccion y precursor de la narracion policial moderna; por Hercules Poirot, la satirica creacion de Agatha Christie y el Padre Brown, el curita que aplica los dogmas religiosos a la solucion de crimenes.

Hercule Poirot v nelehké situaci: do čtyřiadvaceti hodin musí najít rozluštění. Jako vždy však chce odhalit celou pravdu, nikoliv pouze pachatele... Námět na detektivní román "Schůzka se smrtí" získala Agatha Christie při cestách se svým mužem, archeologem Mallowanem, který prováděl vykopávky na Blízkém východě. Na pozadí růžových skal údolí Petry se staneme svědky střetnutí staré despotické ženy a jejích dětí, kteří jsou k sobě připoutáni vzájemnou nenávistí.

Klasické dílo první dámy detektivního žánru. V neúprosném rytmu známého popěvku o deseti malých černoušcích ubývá hostů v luxusním sídle na ostrově, bouří odříznutém od světa. Jakási ďábelská síla žene podle předem připraveného plánu jednoho po druhém do záhuby, až nezbude žádný. Kam však zmizel vrah?

The Secret Adversary, which is the first novel in the series that follows Tommy and Tuppence, chronicles the pair's quest to find a mysterious woman who goes by the name of Jane Finn. Earlier in 1915, Jane Finn had been given a secret document while aboard the Lusitania, which was sunk due to a torpedo hit. That document was a treaty, and Jane was entrusted by the stranger who gave it to her to deliver it to the American Embassy located in London. Years later, the document has still never been delivered....

At a séance, Sir Alington, a venerable expert of the mental condition, is pestered by Mrs. Eversleigh about the importance of the sixth sense. Soon, a young man named Dermot is drawn in and tells them both about the sixth sense he experiences, a red signal that spells danger. He is about to tell them of the last time he saw the red signal when he stops himself. The last time he had the signal was earlier that very evening. But how could there be danger at a simple gathering of old friends?

When civilian life proves too dull for Major Wilbrahams, he contacts Parker Pyne to escape his boredom. Pyne's assistant arranges a chance meeting with the beautiful Freda Clegg and the two join forces, but on leaving for Africa they encounter more than they had bargained for.

It's a race against the clock in this tale of danger and intrigue. In the glitzy era of the 1920s, charming armature sleuths, Tommy and Tuppence set out to solve the mysterious disappearance of a client and unravel a mysterious plot involving blackmail, international intrigue, and perhaps even the sinking of the Lusitania. When labor unrest erupts in England, the situation could turn deadly if a state secret falls into the wrong hands, but Tuppence has no qualms in accepting a job offer to stop that from happening.

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time in digital audio, performed by Christopher Lee. Every morning at the same hour, whilst on the golf course, Jack Hartington hears mysterious cries for help. He speaks to a resident of the cottage from which the cries emanate and learns that she has unsettling dreams of a woman with a blue Chinese vase.

When Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they think nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada is a very difficult old lady. But when Mrs Lockett mentions a poisoned mushroom stew, and Mrs Lancaster talks about "something behind the fireplace", Tommy and Tuppence find themselves caught up in an unexpected adventure involving possible black magic.

What is the connection among a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and the romantic life of a famous tennis player? To the casual observer, apparently nothing. But when a house party gathers at Gull's Point, the seaside home of an elderly widow, earlier events come to a dramatic head. As Superintendent Battle discovers, it is all part of a carefully laid plan - for murder.

A collection of Agatha Christie's stories of the macabre and the occult, from the story "The Red Signal", in which an omen from "the other side" unmasks an insane killer, to "The Hound of Death", in which a convent blows up - and on the remaining wall is left a black powder mark, in the shape of a great dog. The other spine-chilling mysteries are "The Fourth Man", "The Gipsy", and "The Lamp".

Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in a Victorian mansion which doubles as a rehabilitation centre for delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when a youth fires a revolver at the administrator, Lewis Serrocold. Neither is injured. But a mysterious visitor, Mr Gilbrandsen, is less fortunate - shot dead simultaneously in another part of the building. Pure coincidence? Miss Marple thinks not, and vows to discover the real reason for Mr Gilbrandsen's visit.

Hercule Poirot ertappt einen Juwelendieb unterm Weihnachtsbaum und er klärt den Mord an einer jungen Frau, die im Weihnachtsexpress gefunden wird. Für Miss Marple wird die Vorweihnachtszeit nicht besinnlich sondern aufregend, denn sie überführt einen Ehemann, der seine junge Frau getötet hat.

Mord im Land der Pharaonen: Als Renisenb nach langer Abwesenheit ins Haus ihres Vaters, des Totenpriesters Imhotep, zurückkehrt, ist nichts mehr so, wie es einmal war. Mysteriöse Todesfälle verbreiten Angst und Schrecken.

Mord verjährt nie! Fast ein Jahr liegt es zurück, dass Rosemary Barton auf ihrer eigenen Geburtstagsfeier an Gift starb. Damals war man sich sicher: Selbstmord! Doch nun tauchen Zweifel auf und es passiert ein zweiter Mord!

John Moffatt stars as the great Belgian detective in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Famous crime novelist Ariadne Oliver, visiting her friend Judith Butler in the little town of Woodleigh Common, is invited to a Hallowe'en Party put on by society hostess Mrs Rowena Drake for the local teenagers. During her preparations for the party, the conversation turns to Ariadne's grisly novels....

Baghdad is the chosen location for a secret summit of superpowers, concerned but not convinced, about the development of an, as yet, unidentified and undescribed secret weapon. Only one man has the proof that can confirm the nature of this fantastic secret weapon, a British agent named Carmichael. Unfortunately the criminal organisation responsible for the weapon's development will stop at nothing to prevent him entering Baghdad and presenting his proof to the assembled delegates.

Sir Stafford Nye's journey home from Malaysia to London takes an unexpected twist in the passenger lounge at Frankfurt: a young woman confides in him that someone is trying to kill her.

This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together a selection of rare tales by masters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Agatha Christie crime story that has not been seen since 1922. At a time when crime and thriller writing has once again overtaken the sales of general and literary fiction, Bodies from the Library unearths lost stories from the Golden Age, that period between the World Wars when detective fiction captured the public’s imagination.