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Hollow
E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on The Hollow;2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective.
Tema bersama: Private investigators in fiction, Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators
Maut di Awan
From seat number nine, Hercule Poirot is almost ideally placed to observe his fellow air travelers on this short flight from Paris to London. Over to his right sits a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite. Ahead, in seat number thirteen, is the Countess of Horbury, horribly addicted to cocaine and not doing too good a job of concealing it. Across the gangway in seat number…
Tema bersama: Private investigators in fiction, Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators
Tabir
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…
Tema bersama: Private investigators in fiction, Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators
Bahaya di Rumah Akhir
Hercule Poirot is vacationing on the Cornish coast when he meets Nick Buckley. Nick is the young and reckless mistress of End House, an imposing structure perched on the rocky cliffs of St. Loo.
Poirot quickly takes a particular interest in the young woman. Recently, she has narrowly escaped a series of life-threatening accidents. Something tells the Belgian sleuth that these so-called accidents…
Tema bersama: Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators, England
Lima Babi Kecil
Sixteen years after Caroline Crale has been convicted of the murder of her husband, Amyas Crale, her daughter, Carla Lemarchant, approaches Poirot to investigate the case. Poirot embarks optimistically upon an unprecedented challenge, but soon fears that the case may be as cut and dried as it had first appeared.
Tema bersama: Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators, England
Gajah Bisa Mengingat
E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Elephants Can Remember;2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective."The Ravenscrofts didn’t seem that kind of person. They seemed well balanced and placid…" And yet, twelve years earlier, the husband had shot the wife, and then himself — or perhaps it was the other way around, since…
Tema bersama: Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators, England
Pembunuhan dalam Tiga Tindakan
Sir Charles Cartwright should have known better than to allow thirteen guests to sit down for dinner. For at the end of the evening one of them is dead—choked by a cocktail that contained no trace of poison.
Predictable, says Hercule Poirot, the great detective. But entirely unpredictable is that he can find absolutely no motive for murder.…
Tema bersama: Private investigators in fiction, Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators
Empat Besar
They are a vicious international quartet of criminals known as "The Big Four". Number One was a brilliant Chinese, the greatest criminal brain of all time; Number Two was a USAmerican multi-millionaire; Number Three was a beautiful Frenchwoman scientist; and Number Four was "the destroyer," the ruthless murderer with a genius for disguise, whose business it was to remove those who interfered with…
Tema bersama: Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators, England
Pembunuhan di Lapangan Golf
Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is summoned to France after receiving a distressing letter with a urgent cry for help. Upon his arrival in Merlinville-sur-Mer, the investigator finds the man who penned the letter, the South American millionaire Monsieur Renauld, stabbed to death and his body flung into a freshly dug open grave on the golf course adjoining the property. Meanwhile the…
Tema bersama: Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators, England
Kejahatan di Bawah Matahari
Set at the Jolly Roger, a posh vacation resort for the rich and famous on the southern coast of England, Evil Under the Sun is one of Agatha Christie’s most intriguing mysteries. When a gorgeous young bride is brutally strangled to death on the beach, only Hercule Poirot can sift through the secrets that shroud each of the guests and unravel the macabre mystery at this playground by the sea.
Tema bersama: Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators, England
Satu, Dua, Kancing Sepatu
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…
Tema bersama: Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators, English literature
Pertemuan dengan Kematian
Agatha Christie set this book in Jerusalem. An english family headed by a bullying overbearing mother is murdered. Suspicion falls on members of the family, so Poirot steps in to investigate.
Tema bersama: Private investigators in fiction, Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators