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In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years his junior, set to inherit a sizeable fortune, and rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor comfortably ensconced in the family estate. But criminologist Charles Hayward is casting his own doubts on the innocence of the entire Leonides brood. He knows them intimately. And he's certain that in a crooked house such as Three Gables, no one's on the level...

在玫瑰紅城佩特拉高聳的紅色岩巖當中，柏敦老太太像一尊醜怪腫脹的佛像般，僵直地死在她的座椅上。她手腕上的一個小針孔是唯一的線索，它不容置疑明確顯示--有人謀殺了這位人人厭恨、專制獨裁的老太太。
赫丘勒˙白羅只有二十四小時可以解決這個謎團。他無意間在耶路撒冷聽到柏敦家人說的一句話：「你很清楚非殺死她不可,對吧?」這使他將目標鎖定在她那五位飽受母親精神虐待的兒女身上。
然而這果真是一樁慘絕人寰的逆天弒親案嗎?或者是有人故佈疑陣，趁機借刀殺了人呢?
兇手奸巧異常，難於對付，且看白羅為本案撥雲見日,還無辜者一個公道!

The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings…
First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond… then came the ‘suicide’ that was murder… the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat… a suspicious death in a locked gun-room… a million dollar bond robbery… the curse of a pharaoh’s tomb… a jewel robbery by the sea… the abduction of a Prime Minister… the disappearance of a banker… a phone call from a dying man… and, finally, the mystery of the missing will.
What links these fascinating cases? Only the brilliant deductive powers of Hercule Poirot!

人民文学出版社出版的“黑皮本“阿加莎克里斯蒂小说集，其中的波洛系列的長篇小說，只有一部波洛的長篇沒有出版，是哪一部呢？
答：《国际学舍谋杀案》。此書在人文社出版波洛探案作品之前或接近同時出版的內地版本有：
国际学舍谋杀案(单行本) 华文出版社 1993.08 张国祯 译
国际学舍谋杀案(合订本5) 华文出版社 1995.01 张国祯 译（上兩種是台灣譯本用簡化字重排本）
外国学生宿舍谋杀案 贵州人民出版社 1998.10 徐燕军 译
山核桃大街谋杀案 上海译文出版社 2010.01 李育超 译
以後有新星版，名《山核桃大街谋杀案》（與上海譯文版譯名同，王占一譯，新星出版社2016年11月版。

Osborne completes his homage to Christie with this third and final adaptation of an original Christie play, following Black Coffee (1998) and The Unexpected Guest (1999). Though the play was written in 1954, the story suffers little from the passage of time, and aside from the static setting, reads well as a novel. Christie's exquisite timing and clever sleight-of-mind tricks are a delight, while Osborne has the good sense not to embroider the tale. A typical closed cast of characters occupies the temporary country home of Henry and Clarissa Hailsham-Brown: the seemingly scatterbrained Clarissa; her stepdaughter, Pippa; the odious Oliver Costello, who has married Pippa's mother; Sir Rowland Delahaye, Clarissa's godfather and a man of honor; an outspoken gardener; a butler; a cook; and Inspector Lord, the rather diffident policeman. When Clarissa discovers a body in the drawing room, she decides that it mustn't be found there. Her plans to dispose of the body are interrupted by the arrival of a rather diffident policeman, Inspector Lord, who has come to check out an anonymous tip that a murder has been committed. Christie's bag of tricks includes hidden doorways, secret drawers, French windows and concealed identitiesDall used to amusing effect. As with Osborne's previous novelizations, this is a welcome addition to the Christie canon and is sure to reach mystery bestseller lists. The cover, with a spider in a web against a green faux-marble background, is as catchy as they come. (Nov.)
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Beloved detective Hercule Poirot embarks on a journey to Egypt in one of Agatha Christie’s most famous mysteries, Death on the Nile.
The tranquility of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything...until she lost her life.
Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: "I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger." Yet in this exotic setting nothing is ever quite what it seems.

1952年被改编为著名推理剧《捕鼠器》的原著小说。唯一被英国版和国内旧版选集遗漏，国内从未授权翻译出版的推理名作！
快要下雪的日子，若隐若现的可怕歌声在清冷的大街上幽灵般游荡。“三只瞎老鼠，看啊，他们正跑着——”恐怖马上成了现实。波伊尔太太被人杀害了，特雷特侦探的雪橇不翼而飞，电话被切断了。所有和外界的联系在这突如其来的大雪中陷于困顿。猜疑，恐惧，争吵，嫉妒，愤怒……在“三只瞎老鼠”的诡异旋律中盘旋。

And Then There Were None is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie. In the novel, ten people, who have previously been complicit in the deaths of others but have escaped notice or punishment, are tricked into coming onto an island. Even though the guests are the only people on the island, they are all mysteriously murdered one by one, in a manner paralleling, inexorably and sometimes grotesquely, the old nursery rhyme, "Ten Little Niggers".