A brand new POIROT omnibus featuring the first five appearances of the detectives side-kick the sleuthing crime novelist Ariadne Oliver: Cards on the Table Mrs Mc Gintys Dead Dead Mans Folly & the short stories The Case of the Discontented Soldier & The Case of the Rich Woman. Hercule Poirot & Ariadne Oliver were an unilkely combination -- a world-famous detective who dealt with fact & a prolific crime writer who dealt with fantasy. But their paths crossed six times & Mrs Oliver was to become one of Poirots staunchest allies. Cards on the Table Ariadne Oliver makes her first appearance in Poirots life when they attend a bridge party in which the host is silently murdered in full view of a roomful of guests. Mrs Mc Gintys Dead After 16 years Mrs Oliver re-enters Poirots life when an old widow is murdered in the parlour of her cottage. Dead Mans Folly A murder hunt is staged for charity but alarmingly turns into the real thing when Poirot & Mrs Oliver have to face up to their first case of a child murder. The Case of the Discontented Soldier & The Case of the Rich Woman are two bonus stories in which Mrs Oliver makes an appearance alongside the private eye Christopher Parker Pyne. ...

The final POIROT omnibus featuring the last four appearances of the detectives side-kick the sleuthing crime novelist Ariadne Oliver: Third Girl Halloween Party Elephants Can Remember & The Pale Horse. Poirot & Mrs Oliver continue their sleuthing in the 1960s in four uncharacteristically modern novels with an added twist of danger... Third Girl Poirot finally admits he is growing old as a perplexed girl thinks she may have killed someone. Here Christie dragged Poirot into the swinging 60s & effectively squared him up against a world featuring sex drugs & hippies. Halloween Party A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples. This was only the second time Christie wrote about the death of a child & is all the more engrossing for it. Elephants Can Remember An old husband & wife double murder has never been solved
- until now. This was the very last Poirot story that Agatha Christie wrote & garnered good reviews. The Pale Horse A priests death leads to sinister goings-on in an old country inn. This bonus novel featured Mrs Oliver for once without Poirot & was one of Christies darkest stories blending witchcraft & murder.
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A brand new Poirot omnibus featuring four of the world-renowned detectives most challenging cases: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Murder on the Orient Express Murder in the Mews & Hercule Poirots Christmas. It seems Hercule Poirot can never escape murder -- & in this collection the crimes are probably the finest he has ever had to solve. Locked rooms wealth & jealousy -- outwardly all very similar but when the detective begins to dig the motives & solutions couldnt be more different! The Murder of Roger Ackroyd In the quiet village of Kings Abbot a wealthy widower is found stabbbed to death in his study! Murder on the Orient Express A wealthy American dies of multiple stab wounds on a train bound for Paris! Murder in the Mews A widow is murdered in her apartment! Hercule Poirots Christmas A sadistic old man is brutally murdered in his locked study! ...

A brand new Agatha Christie omnibus featuring four of the eight novels in which Captain Arthur Hastings appears alongside the world-renowned detective Hercule Poirot: The Mysterious Affair at Styles The Murder on the Links The Big Four & Peril at End House. Captain Arthur Hastings is well-known as Poirots trusty sidekick the perfect foil for the great detective & his little grey cells. Yet although Agatha Christie wrote 33 novels about her famous detective only eight of them actually feature Captain Hastings. Considered by many to be some of the very best Christie stories the distinctive Hastings novels are distinguished by being recounted in the first person just as Dr Watson wrote for Holmes. This omnibus volume brings together the first four Poirot & Hastings novels including the very first book The Mysterious Affair at Styles the international adventures The Murder on the Links & The Big Four & the ingenious Cornish mystery Peril at End House. ...

A brand new three-in-one Poirot omnibus featuring the world-renowned detective's adventures in France.

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Poison boy Dalton Fly a lowly food taster to the rich has a lucky escape after drinking laced wine. But his mate is less fortunate & Dalton wants answers. Who murdered his friend & what were they were really after? With the help of aristocratic girl Scarlet Dropmore whose life he unwittingly saved he sets out to rescue his city from the poisoners within. ...

Deep in the cellars of the OBrien Press is a safe that contained stories too horrible to be read. But somebody has broken into that safe & the stories have been released. This is one of those Forbidden Files. They called it The Fart Factory it smelled so bad. The Kanker & Byle Chemical Company was a towering heap of buildings & pipes & walkways just piled on top of each other. Then somebody had stuck some chimneys on the top like candles on the worlds ugliest birthday cake. When the Root Street Gang lose their football in the Kanker & Byle Chemical Factory Gaz sends his little brother Joey in to get it back. & then they lose Joey. Faced with returning home without his brother & facing his Mams wrath Gaz has no choice but to lead his friends Hayley & Damo into the factory to find Joey & their football. But this is no ordinary factory & in no time at all Gaz Hayley & Damo encounter the living dead giant insects & a man with the most disgusting job in the world. But there is an even worse fate awaiting them at the end of their search. ...

The book tells the story of the poisoned arrow that shot Paris (as in Helen of Troy). In the beginning Earth created monsters. One of these was the Hydra. Heracles killed it then dipped his arrows in the venom of its blood. Years later when his wife was abducted by a centaur he killed the rapist with one of these arrows. The dying centaur told Heracles wife to dip a robe in his blood & give it to Heracles as a token of her love. Heracles put on the robe & was burned alive by the poison. He built himself a funeral pyre but no one would light it. Finally a small boy named Philoctetes did as Heracles asked & Heracles left him his arrows as a reward. It was with one of these arrows that Paris was shot. Dying he was taken into the woods where there lived a goddess who had once loved Paris & had the power of healing. But she refused to cure him & sent him away. Repenting she then hurried after him but it was too late. ...

Its 1308 & England hovers on the brink of civil war. Edward II his wife Isabella & the royal favourite Peter Gaveston Earl of Cornwall have been forced to retreat to the Kings folly. Just an arrowshot away lie the Great Lords & Philip IV of France who are demanding that the Earl of Cornwall be charged with high treason. Edward is trapped & worse he has learnt that Philip has the Poison Maiden on his side a formidable spy who did untold damage during his fathers reign. As Edward tries in vain to unmask the identity of the spy Mathilde handmaiden to the Queen also attempts to identify the source of this threat. Soon the crisis spills over into violence. The Lords attempt to take Gaveston by force & the King & his Court including Mathilde are forced to flee. As the enemy closes in Mathilde finds herself embroiled in a life & death struggle for the English crown. ...

This title is seventh in the brilliantly addictive series of murder mysteries by an acclaimed & popular writer. Its Book Week & Poppy & Graham are helping out at their local literacy festival. However when the authors start getting anonymous notes featuring cartoons of themselves suffering grisly deaths the intrepid pair realize that the world of childrens books is murkier than they could ever have imagined. Theyll have to move quickly to discover whos at the bottom of it
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