Agatha Christies most famous murder mystery reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans & book lovers. Just after midnight a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment stabbed a dozen times his door locked from the inside. Isolated & with a killer in their midst detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer -- in case he or she decides to strike again. ...

Its the height of summer & the wealthy Finney family have gathered at the Manoir Bellechasse to pay tribute to their late father. But as the temperature rises old secrets & bitter rivalries begin to surface. When the heat wave boils over into a mighty storm a dead body is left in its wake. Chief Inspector Gamache a guest at the Bellechasse finds himself with a building full of suspects. With the hotel locked down the murderer is trapped. But a cornered predator is always the most dangerous of all... ...

Eleven months after discovering a brutal double murder in a sleepy Northumbrian town Detective Chief Inspector Kate Daniels is still haunted by her failure to solve the case. Then the brutal killing of a man on Newcastles Quayside gives Daniels another chance to get it right & her first case as Senior Investigating Officer. When Daniels recognises the corpse but fails to disclose the fact her personal life swerves dangerously into her professional life. But much worse she is now being watched. As Daniels steps closer to finding a killer a killer is only a breath away from claiming his next victim... ...

This work features maths with the laughs added in! How can maths rescue someone in deadly peril? Which famous mathematician was murdered? How did time begin? Find out in Murderous Maths"
- all the tricks tips & short-cuts they dont teach at school."
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Much has been written about the soldiers executed during WW1 for military offences all of whom were conditionally pardoned in 2006. However until now very little attention has been paid to the cases of men who were tried under the Army Act & executed for murder. The British Army has always been reticent about publicising courts martial & eighty years elapsed before the government was compelled to prematurely declassify the written proceedings of First World War capital courts martial. Even then public attention tended to concentrate on cases involving soldiers who had been shot at dawn for offences other than homicide & virtually nobody was inclined to seek a posthumous pardon or judicial review for the murderous Tommies. This meant neither the victims nor the convicted mens families were able to discover details about the murder cases. Though readily identifiable online via much-visited war cemetery websites until now there has been no readily accessible historically reliable & balanced narrative about the activities & courts-martial of all the murderous Tommies of the Western Front. This book provides for a full account of the cases involving twelve soldiers & one officer whose homicidal misdeeds were committed in France & Flanders while hostilities were in progress. Drawing on contemporary records this carefully researched work chronicles the circumstances in which each of these men either slaughtered one of their comrades or an unarmed civilian. It examines the murderers motives & presents a balanced analysis of each case including a detailed assessment of the extent to which each condemned man was granted a fair hearing by officers who sat in uneasy judgement as well as those involved in confirming the death sentences. ...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MATTHEW PEARL. Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre of detective fiction with these three mesmerising stories of a young French eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin: The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Mystery of Marie Roget & The Purloined Letter. Years later Dorothy Sayers would describe these tales as almost a complete manual of detective theory & practice. Indeed Poes short mysteries inspired the creation of countless literary sleuths among them Sherlock Holmes. Today the unique Dupin stories still stand out as utterly engrossing page-turners. This edition reproduces the definitive text of these stories & an introduction & appendix on The Earliest Detectives by the novelist Matthew Pearl. ...

In 1858 a young woman on her honeymoon is abducted taken across the border to the US & sold into slavery. Thirty-eight years later the owner of one of Torontos livery stables has been found dead horsewhipped & hung from his wrists in his tack room. The investigation endangers Murdochs own life
- & reveals how harms committed in the past can erupt fatally in the present.
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In the cold Toronto winter of 1895 the naked body of a servant girl is found frozen in a deserted laneway. The young victim was pregnant when she died. Detective William Murdoch soon discovers that many of those connected with the girls life have secrets to hide. Was her death on attempt to cover up a scandal in one of the citys influential families? ...

Dolly Merishaw is a midwife & an abortionist in Victorian Toronto & although she keeps quiet about her clients her contempt & greed leaves them resentful & angry. It comes as no surprise to Detective William Murdoch when she is murdered but when a young boy is found dead in Dollys squalid kitchen a week later Murdoch isnt sure if hes hunting one murderer
- or two.
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