Agatha Christie's seasonal Poirot & Marple short story collection reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans & book lovers First came a sinister 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 & the puzzle of the victim who dreamt his own suicide What links these five baffling cases? The little grey cells of Monsieur Hercule Poirot! ...

The only clue is her sister's last words the speckled band She died two years ago Helen Stoner is now engaged She's worried for her life She has come to Sherlock to save her life & find out what happened to her sister He's her only hope Foxton Readers are a series of carefully graded books aimed at ESL EAL learners of beginner to advanced levels They are based on a comprehensive grammar & vocabulary framework to match each ability level & to ensure each learner progresses They are not only suitable for ESL EAL learners but can also be used with native speakers of primary school age ...

' My name is Sherlock Holmes It is my business to know what other people don't know' The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes first introduced Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective to the readers of The Strand Magazine The runaway success of this series prompted a second set of stories The Memoirs In these twenty three tales collected here in one volume you have some of the best detective yarns ever penned In his consulting room at 221B Baker Street the master sleuth receives a stream of clients all presenting him with baffling & bizarre mysteries to unravel There is for example the man who is frightened for his life because of the arrival of an envelope containing five orange pips; there is the terrified woman who is aware that her life is in danger & cannot explain the strange whistling sounds she hears in the night; & there is the riddle of the missing butler & the theft of an ancient treasure In the last story there is the climatic battle between Holmes & his arch enemy 'the Napoleon of Crime' Professor Moriarty Holmes with trusty Watson by his side is equal to these & the other challenges in this splendid collection ...

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Aladdin the acrobatic street performer falls for Shahzadi the beautiful daughter of the Sultan When the Sultan dies Shahzadi takes over the rule of the city much to the disgust of the despicable Sultan s Minister Maghreb With the help of the friendly & affable Genie Aladdin & his unlikely group of street performer heroes come to the aid of Shahzadi as she seeks to defend the city Format PALRegion Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Aspect Ratio Unknown Number of discs 1 ...

Saul Bellow's American masterpiece The Adventures of Augie March

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With a malevolent entity about to un-tell every story ever told erase every character ever imagined (including you!) it’s up to Augusta Wind Mr Snabbit the Omniphant & Upton Snuff to stop the Story Killer & save the Storiverse But weird worlds bizarre creatures & terrible dangers await them—and victory is not assured! Meet the Author Born & raised in Brooklyn New York Eisner Award winner J M De Matteis was a professional musician & rock music journalist before entering the comic book field Although he&s written almost all of the major DC & Marvel icons — including critically-lauded runs on Justice League International & Spider-Man (the epic " Kraven’s Last Hunt" was voted the number one story in Spider-Man’s fifty year history by Comic Book Resources) De Matteis&s greatest acclaim has come for sophisticated original graphic novels like Seekers Into The Mystery Blood A Tale The Last One & Mercy The autobiographical Brooklyn Dreams was picked by the ALA as one of the Ten Best Graphic Novels & Booklist in a starred review called it "as graphically distinguished & creatively novelistic a graphic novel as has ever beena classic of the form" The groundbreaking Moonshadow was chosen (along with Brooklyn Dreams Blood & other De Matteis works) for inclusion in Gene Kanenberg Jr&s 2008 book 500 Essential Graphic Novels — where it was hailed as one of the finest fantasy graphic novels ever created His success in the comic book medium has led De Matteis to work in both television (writing live action & animation) & movies (creating screenplays for Fox Disney Feature Animation directors Carlo Carlei & Chris Columbus & producer Dean Devlin among others) More recently De Matteis has had great success with the children’s fantasy series Abadazad (hailed by Entertainment Weekly as "one of those very rare fantasy works that can enchant preteen kids & 40-year old fanboys") The Life & Times of Savior 28 (called "one of the finest super hero stories of the decade" by Newsarama) & the novel Imaginalis (which Publishers Weekly praised as "a sure-footed fantasy" with a "hopeful message about the power of reading & belief") Current projects include the all-ages fantasies The Adventures of Augusta Wind & The Edward Gloom Mysteries; writing for Cartoon Network’s Teen Titans Go; his ongoing Imagination 101 workshops which explore the practicalities & metaphysics of writing for comics graphic novels & animation; & Creation Point a story consultation service that offers in-depth guidance for both the professional & aspiring writer ...

Augusta Webster thought she was an ordinary girl living an ordinary life in an ordinary town But that was before the Snabbit
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play From Terry Gilliam director of & Time Bandits& & & Brazil& comes & The Adventures of Baron Munchausen& a spectacular epic fantasy quite unlike any other film ever made Just who is Baron Munchausen? Liar? Rogue? Madman? Or the greatest superhero ever to battle & triumph against unbeatable odds? Did he really ride through the air on a cannonball slay a three-headed griffin journey to the moon all before breakfast? Helped & hindered by a cast of quite literally thousands including Vulcan Berthold & many more the indomitable Baron succeeds in overcoming every obstacle to face his final greatest challenge Death itself? There&s never been a film remotely like this but then there&s never been a hero to compare with the Baron ...

Alaric Moebius & Basil Fox are two lovable scoundrels looking to make a quick fortune Basil is a former SAS trooper turned Queen&s Guard by day & thief by night Moebius is an Oxford-educated charmer with a knack for getting into trouble Together they chase adventure under the patronage of " The Collector" a mysterious billionaire with a taste for rare & valuable supernatural objects of the occult This first volume contains the first three adventures in their career together introducing the unlikely duo for the first time in a highstakes chain of pulpy high adventures! Written by the legendary Larry Hama (GIJoe Wolverine) with creator Ryan Schifrin these wild adventures have the thrills of Indiana Jones the wit & banter of the best buddy-cop pairings & the globe-hopping wonder of James Bond An exciting thrill ride from cover to cover! ...