Ordeal by Innocence
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? Dr. Arthur Calgary takes a ferry across the Rubicon River to Sunny Point, the home of the Argyle family. A year before, the matriarch of the family was murdered and a son, Jack, was convicted and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. Throughout the trial Jack had maintained his innocence, claiming he was hitchhiking on the night of the murder and he had been picked up by a middle-aged man in a dark car. Unable to locate this mystery man the police viewed Jack's as a lie. Calgary was the stranger in question, but he arrives to late for Jack -- who succumbs to pneumonia after serving just six months of his sentence. Feeling a sense of duty to the Argyles, Calgary is surprised when his revelation has a disturbing effect on the family -- it means one of the family is a murderer!
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7,99 €
Spider´s Web
A full-length novel by Charles Osborne adapted from Agatha Christie's stage play, in which a diplomat's wife finds a body that mustn't be discovered...Following BLACK COFFEE and THE UNEXPECTED GUEST comes the final Agatha Christie play novelisation, bringing her superb storytelling to a new legion of fans. Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?' she muses. Clarissa has her chance to find out when she discovers a body in the drawing-room of her house in Kent. Desperate to dispose of the body before her husband comes home with an important foreign politician, Clarissa persuades her three house guests to become accessories and accomplices. It seems that the murdered man was not unknown to certain members of the house party (but which ones?), and the search begins for the murderer and the motive, while at the same time trying to persuade a police inspector that there has been no murder at all!
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6,50 €
Lacná kniha A l´hôtel Bertram (-90%)
Ah ! les muffins de l'hôtel Bertram... Ils n'ont pas leur pareil. Non plus que le thé, le personnel stylé et les clients, ladies respectables, ecclésiastiques et officiers en retraite qui viennent y retrouver l'atmosph?re d'antan... Vraiment, l'hôtel Bertram est plus victorien que nature, et Miss Marple se réjouit d'y passer une semaine. Et pourtant, quelques détails la troublent: cette jeune fille, Elvira, qui s'est amourachée d'un pilote de course peu recommandable, sa m?re, une aventuri?re décidée, et ce pauvre chanoine Pennyfather qui disparaît... Il est bien étourdi, mais tout de m?me...
Décidément, tout n'est peut-?tre pas aussi paisible et feutré qu'il y paraît... ? l'hôtel Bertram.
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0,91 €
9,10€
Lacná kniha A l´hôtel Bertram (-50%)
Ah ! les muffins de l'hôtel Bertram... Ils n'ont pas leur pareil. Non plus que le thé, le personnel stylé et les clients, ladies respectables, ecclésiastiques et officiers en retraite qui viennent y retrouver l'atmosph?re d'antan... Vraiment, l'hôtel Bertram est plus victorien que nature, et Miss Marple se réjouit d'y passer une semaine. Et pourtant, quelques détails la troublent: cette jeune fille, Elvira, qui s'est amourachée d'un pilote de course peu recommandable, sa m?re, une aventuri?re décidée, et ce pauvre chanoine Pennyfather qui disparaît... Il est bien étourdi, mais tout de m?me...
Décidément, tout n'est peut-?tre pas aussi paisible et feutré qu'il y paraît... ? l'hôtel Bertram.
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4,55 €
9,10€
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
A dentist lies murdered at his Harley Street practice...The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung right hand. Later, one of his patients was found dead from a lethal dose of local anaesthetic. A clear case of murder and suicide. But why would a dentist commit a crime in the middle of a busy day of appointments? A shoe buckle holds the key to the mystery. Now -- in the words of the rhyme -- can Poirot pick up the sticks and lay them straight?
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6,50 €
Hickory, Dickory, Dock
There's more than petty theft going on in a London youth hostel...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 work, why was everyone at the hostel so frightened?
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6,50 €
A Carribean Mystery
An exotic holiday for Miss Marple is ruined when a retired major is killed...As Jane Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Eventually, her interest was aroused by an old soldier's yarn about a strange coincidence. Infuriatingly, just as he was about to show her an astonishing photograph, the Major's attention wandered. He never did finished the story!
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7,95 €
Miss Marple A Murder Is Announced
Agatha Christie's most ingenious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which reads: 'A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m.' A childish practical joke? Or a hoax intended to scare poor Letitia Blacklock? Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, a crowd begins to gather at Little Paddocks at the appointed time when, without warning, the lights go out!
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7,99 €
The Man in The Brown Suit
Another title in the new and stylish Agatha Christie Signature Editions series. The suave and debonair Colonel Race must solve a question, not of 'accidental death or suicide', but 'murder or double murder'. Pretty, young Anne came to London looking for adventure. In fact, adventure comes looking for her -- and finds her immediately at Hyde Park Corner tube station. Anne is present on the platform when a thin man, reeking of mothballs, loses his balance and is electocuted on the rails. The Scotland Yard verdict is accidental death. But Anne is not satisfied. After all, who was the man in the brown suit who examined the body? And why did he race off, leaving a cryptic message behind: '17-122 Kilmorden Castle'?
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8,99 €
They do it with Mirrors
A man is shot at in a juvenile reform home - but someone else dies...Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in a Victorian mansion which doubles as a rehabilitiation 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.
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8,31 €
Lacná kniha Christmas Pudding (fr) (-95%)
A warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding;then the discovery of a corpse in a chest. Next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder, the strange case of the dead man who altered his eating habits and the puzzle of the victim who dreamt his own suicide...
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0,38 €
7,67€
Taken at the Flood
A man returns from the dead, and the body of a mysterious stranger is found in his room...A few weeks after marrying an attractive young widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the Cloade family fortune. Shortly afterwards, Hercule Poirot receives a visit from the dead man's sister-in-law who claims she has been warned by 'spirits' that Mrs Underhay's first husband is still alive. Poirot has his suspicions when he is asked to find a missing person guided only by the spirit world. Yet what mystifies Poirot most is the woman's true motive for approaching him!
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5,80 €
Curtain: Poirot´s Last Case
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 learn from Hercule Poirot's declaration that one of them was a five-times murderer. True, the ageing detective was crippled with arthritis, but had his deductive instincts finally deserted him?!
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6,50 €
Mort sur le Nil
Ce n'est pas trs joli de voler son fiancé sa meilleure amie pour se marier avec lui. Et mme si l'amie en question semble se résigner, la ravissante et riche Linnet Ridgeway a bien des raisons d'tre inquite... Surtout quand le hasard les rassemble, pour une croisire sur le Nil, avec de troublants personnages, dans une atmosphre lourde de sensualité et de cupidité.
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10,99 €
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Vždyť je to hračka - 2. vydání
Náhoda svede dohromady vysloužilého policistu Luka Fitzwilliama, vracejícího se z Dálného východu do Anglie, a zdánlivě popletenou starou dámu, která mu ve vlaku vypráví neuvěřitelnou historku o sérii vražd ve svém městečku. Teprve náhodně přečtené oznámení v černé kronice podnítí Lukův zájem vyšetřit, zda na jejím příběhu přeci jen není něco pravdy... Nikdo nemůže pochybovat o tom, že Luka čeká nelehký úkol. Vždyť - jak pravila stará dáma - když vás nikdo nepodezřívá, je zabíjení vlastně hračka.
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11,70 €
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Cat Among The Pigeons
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 that without Hercule Poirot's help, she will be the next victim!
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5,80 €
