The tranquility of a luxury 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 under the searing heat of the Egyptian sun, nothing is ever quite what it seems.
A sweeping mystery of love, jealousy, and betrayal, Death on the Nile is one of Christie’s most legendary and timeless works.

The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense—creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characters—brings her entire oeuvre of ingenious whodunits, locked room mysteries, and perplexing puzzles to Harper Paperbacks…including the unforgettable Hercule Poirot classic, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, one of her own ten favorite novels.
From Library Journal:
This novel, written in 1927, is considered the best and most successful of the early mysteries. It met with no small outrage when it appeared, as it uses a plot device many readers thought "unfair." There is a full complement of characters populating the cozy English village of King's Abbot: Major Blunt, Colonel Carter, Miss Gannett, the butler, the housekeeper, the narrator, Dr. Sheppard, and his know-it-all sister (the precursor of Miss Marple, according to Christie), and, of course, the redoubtable Hercule Poirot and his little grey cells. There are clues with a capital C to mislead us, and the listener gets so involved with these red herrings (or not) that the very simple truth eludes the puzzler. Venerable reader Robin Bailey keeps the light, almost comic tone alive, although his voices are not particularly differentiated, and often he rushes the reading of dialog. A classic of the genre and essential for any fiction collection. Harriet Edwards, East Meadow P.L., NY
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Review
“A classic—the book has worthily earned its fame.” (Irish Independent (Ireland) )
“One of the landmarks of detective literature.” (H. R. F. Keating, Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books )
“Agatha Christie had a mind like a mousetrap and taught me, in novels like The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, the pleasure of literary surprise.” (William Dietrich, New York Times bestselling author of the Ethan Gage Historical AdventuresWilliam Dietrich, New York Times bestselling author of the Ethan Gage Historical AdventuresWilliam Dietrich, New York Times bestselling author of the Ethan Gage )

¿Qué oscuro secreto esconde el pueblo de Wychwood para que muchos de sus habitantes estén muriendo bajo extrañas circunstancias? La señora Pinkerton, una anciana vecina de la localidad, le cuenta al ex policía Luke Fitzwilliam los entresijos de los crímenes recientemente acaecidos allí, además de asegurarle que conoce la identidad del asesino, ya que le ha visto mirar con malos ojos a todas las víctimas justo antes de que aparecieran muertas. Lo que en principio no parece más que una chifladura propia de una lunática, al día siguiente se convierte en algo alarmante: Fitzwilliam lee en la prensa que la anciana ha muerto atropellada y que otro cuerpo sin vida ha sido hallado en Wychwood, justamente lo que la señora Pinkerton le había explicado.
Una de las mejores novelas de misterio de Agatha Christie; una historia con un argumento fascinante, con unos personajes inteligentes y vivaces, con una técnica brillante.
Matar es fácil debe contarse como una muestra más del inagotable ingenio de la señora Agatha Christie.

Linnet Rideway es una joven agraciada y millonaria que lo posee todo. Su amiga, Jacqueline de Bellefort, no menos hermosa aunque pobre, sólo tiene amor de su prometido Simon Doyle. Sin embargo, Simon acaba casándose con Linnet. El nuevo matrimonio inicia un crucero por el Nilo a bordo de Karnak y durante el viaje, que habría de haber sido el mejor viaje de su vida, Linnet muere asesinada. Tras su asesinato se suceden otros que serán investigados por Hercule Poirot, que viaja en el mismo crucero.

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Un grupo de viajeros se ve atrapado en el Orient Express en medio de una tormenta de nieve. Entre ellos pronto se descubre un cadáver. El asesino está entre los presentes. Al detective más famoso de la historia le corresponde averiguar quién ha cometido el crimen.

Un trozo de tela de color verde una mancha todavía húmeda en la alfombra de la habitación del crimen una caja vacía de polvos de bromuro un pedazo de papel a medio quemar... Ésas son apenas las pistas de que dispondrá Hércules Poirot para aclarar el asesinato de la señora Inglethorp rica magnánima y bondadosa dama a la que según parece alguien le sirvió una taza de café con estricnina.

Inventor Sir Claude Amory feels a bitter taste in the mouth, when the new formula for explosive material stolen by someone in the household.
In order to quickly remedy the situation, Sir Claude locks the door and turns off the light, giving the thief a chance to return the formula without being detected. But darkness brings death and Hercule Poirot has to untangle family strife, love and suspicious visitors tangle in order to clarify the murderer and prevent disaster.

A Poirot le resulta muy sospechoso que el cliente de un restaurante que desde hace diez años acude a cenar todos los martes y jueves y siempre pide lo mismo cambie sus costumbres de repente y se presente un lunes y pida de postre
. Sus sospechas se confirman cuando se entera de la muerte del extraño cliente.
Como en
, la canción infantil que da título al siguiente relato, al asesinato de una mujer le sigue una segunda muerte en la casa de huéspedes donde un implacable asesino busca a las demás víctimas de su venganza.
El presente volumen se completa con una selección de apasionantes relatos breves de la prolífica autora británica.
(Los relatos del presente volumen pertenecen a la obra
)

An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Hercule Poirot’s interest. But when he saw the list of stolen and vandalized items – including a stethoscope, some old flannel trousers, a box of chocolates, a slashed rucksack and a diamond ring found in a bowl of soup – he congratulated the warden, Mrs Hubbard, on a ‘unique and beautiful problem’. The list made absolutely no sense at all. But, reasoned Poirot, if this was merely a petty thief at work, why was everyone at the hostel so frightened?

Dieciséis años atrás, Caroline Crale fue condenada por asesinar a su esposo, el pintor Amyas Crale, cuando éste estaba a punto de abandonarla por una mujer más joven. Tras morir en prisión, Caroline dejó una carta a su hija de cinco años, Carla, reafirmando su inocencia. Ahora Carla sabe que necesita la ayuda del mejor detective del mundo para volver al pasado y hallar al verdadero asesino, honrando así la memoria de su madre.
Hércules Poirot someterá a sus peculiares interrogatorios a cinco sospechosos: a Elsa Greer, la última amante del difunto; a Angela, la hermanastra de Caroline; a la señorita Williams, la institutriz; y a los hermanos Blake, uno de ellos agente de bolsa y el otro aficionado a la botánica. Todos cuentan con una coartada sólida, pero uno de ellos miente. ¿Quién será el asesino?

El avión-correo Prometheus despega del aeropuerto de Le Bourget en París, camino de Craydon, con 14 personas a bordo. Al llegar a su destino, una pasajera es encontrada muerta. La única señal de violencia es un pequeño pinchazo en el cuello. A sus pies se halla un dardo envenenado

: El capitán Hastings, amigo y colaborador de Hércules Poirot, narra en forma de crónica la compleja trama que se desarrolla en torno al asesinato en Francia de Paul Renauld, un millonario de oscuro pasado. Poirot, a quien la víctima había solicitado ayuda por sentirse gravemente amenazada, no llega a tiempo de evitar el crimen y decide colaborar en la investigación del caso, tarea en la que consigue demostrar la superioridad de sus métodos sobre los del comisario Giruald, de la Sûreté de París.
: Una bellísima heredera se libra milagrosamente de morir a manos de un misterioso asesino y le pide a Poirot que abra una investigación. Mientras éste trata de averiguar cuál de los sospechosos es el criminal, las tentativas de asesinato se multiplican y se produce una muerte. Poirot ve cómo sus hipótesis se desmoronan una a una y las pistas se enmarañan. Pero el célebre detective belga jamás se da por vencido.
: Es cierto que Lord Edgware era un hombre muy raro, pero eso no significaba que debía ser asesinado. Aunque su segunda mujer, la hermosa actriz Jane Wilkinson, quería divorciarse para volverse a casar, su hija le odiaba y su heredero había sido expulsado de casa... Y para complicarle más el caso a Hércules Poirot, la noche del crimen una mujer estaba en dos lugares al mismo tiempo.

Three young women share a London flat. The first is a coolly efficient secretary. The second is an artist. The third interrupts Hercule Poirot’s breakfast confessing that she is a murderer—and then promptly disappears.
Slowly, Poirot learns of the rumors surrounding the mysterious third girl, her family, and her disappearance. Yet hard evidence is needed before the great detective can pronounce her guilty, innocent, or insane.

The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A gun lay on the floor near his right hand. What reason would an amiable dentist like Dr. Morely have for committing suicide? He didn't have emotional difficulties, money problems, or lov

Sheila Webb, typist-for-hire, has arrived at 19 Wilbraham Crescent in the seaside town of Crowdean to accept a new job. What she finds is a well-dressed corpse surrounded by five clocks. Mrs. Pebmarsh, the blind owner of No. 19, denies all knowledge of ringing Sheila's secretarial agency and asking for her by name -- yet someone did. Nor does she own that many clocks. And neither woman seems to know the victim. Colin Lamb, a young intelligence specialist working a case of his own at the nearby naval yard, happens to be on the scene at the time of Sheila Webb's ghastly discovery. Lamb knows of only one man who can properly investigate a crime as bizarre and baffling as what happened inside No. 19 -- his friend and mentor, Hercule Poirot.

After Richard Abernethie’s funeral, his will is read out to his family. His sister, Cora, shocks everyone by saying ‘He was murdered, wasn’t he?’
When Cora is murdered in her bed the very next day, herextraordinary remark suddenly seems very important.
Every member of the Abernethie family has something to gainfrom both murders. Hercule Poirot arrives to solve the mystery
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2).
Each reader includes:
• A CD with a reading of the adapted story
• Helpful notes on characters
• Cultural and historical notes relevant to the plot
• A glossary of the more difficult words

Reclusive tycoon Sir Oswald Coote and his melancholy wife, Lady Coote, have hit upon the ideal plan to spice up their quiet lives. They'll host a lavish weekend party at Chimneys. their isolated estate, and invite only "bright young things." But the festive mood is clouded by doom. A practical joke involving seven clocks and a sleeping guest has ended in accidental death--and cause for alarm. For the guests may not be all that they appear. And as whispers of a strange club called Seven Dials echo through the halls of Chimneys, all hands will be pointing to murder...

An English country house at Christmas time should be the perfect place to get away from it all - but nothing is ever simple for Hercule Poirot, as he finds not one but five baffling cases to solve.
First comes a sinister warning on his pillow to avoid the plum pudding...then the discovery of a corpse in a chest...next, an overheard quarrel that leads to murder...the strange case of a dead man's eating habits...and the puzzle of a victim who dreams of his own suicide.
Add an extra bonus - Miss Marple investigates Greenshaw's Folly.

Em uma noite de setembro, o milionário Roger Ackroyd é encontrado morto, esfaqueado com uma adaga tunisiana – objeto raro de sua coleção particular – no quarto da mansão Fernly Park na pacata vila de King’s Abbott. A morte do fidalgo industrial é a terceira de uma misteriosa sequência de crimes, iniciada com a de Ashley Ferrars, que pode ter sido causada ou por uma ingestão acidental de soníferos ou envenenamento articulado por sua esposa – esta, aliás, completa a sequência de mortes, num provável suicídio.
Os três crimes em série chamam a atenção da velha Caroline Sheppard, irmã do dr. Sheppard, médico da cidade e narrador da história. Suspeitando de que haja uma relação entre as mortes, dada a proximidade de miss Ferrars com o também viúvo Roger Ackroyd, Caroline pede a ajuda do então aposentado detetive belga Hercule Poirot, que passava suas merecidas férias na vila.
Ameaças, chantagens, vícios, heranças, obsessões amorosas e uma carta reveladora deixada por miss Ferrars compõem o cenário desta surpreendente trama, cujo transcorrer elenca novos suspeitos a todo instante, exigindo a habitual perspicácia do detetive Poirot em seu retorno ao mundo das investigações. O assassinato de Roger Ackroyd é um dos mais famosos romances policiais da rainha do crime.

For an instant the two trains ran together, going in the same direction side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth, riding in the one train, witnessed a murder in the other. Helplessly, she stared out her carriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip around a woman’s throat. The body crumpled. Then the other train drew away.
Who, apart from Miss Marple, would take her story seriously? After all, there were no suspects, no other witnesses... and no corpse. Not the police.
Librarian's note: this entry is for the novel, "4:50 from Paddington." Collections and other Miss Marple stories are located elsewhere on Goodreads. The series includes 12 novels and 20 short stories. Entries for the short stories can be found by searching Goodreads for: "a Miss Marple Short Story."