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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For the first time on CD the unabridged audio edition of the cases that made up Hercule Poirots formative years as a detective. Read by the inimitable Hugh Fraser & David Suchet. Still in the formative years of his career Hercule Poirot faces a most taxing case: who killed Lord Cronshaw? Was Coco Courtenays death on the same night a mere coincidence? & did she deliberately take an overdose of cocaine? No sooner has Poirot revealed his astonishing powers of deduction than he is faced with seventeen other mysteries to test his soon-to-be-famous little grey cells. As a matter of courtesy to a group of young people he endeavours to solve the gruesome murder of a woman whose body they have stumbled upon whilst locked out of their flat & with his usual precision & elan he discovers exactly how Mary Mary quite contrary makes her garden grow! ...

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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Locked in a coffin-like darkness there is nothing to distract me from my memories of killing Reyad. He deserved to die--but according to the law so do I. Here in Ixia the punishment for murder is death. & now I wait for the hangman's noose. But the same law that condemns me may also save me. Ixia's food taster--chosen to ensure that the Commander's food is not poisoned--has died. & by law the next prisoner who is scheduled to be executed--me--must be offered the position. ...