For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozenmoment, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Helplessly, she stared out of her carriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip around a woman’s throat. The body crumpled. Then the other train drew away.

A woman is murdered on a train.When Miss Marple telephones her friend Lucy Eyelesbarrow and asks her to go undercover to investigate, Lucy quickly accepts the challenge! Who is the dead woman? What was the motive for her murder? And why was the body thrown from the train and later hidden at Rutherford Hall?When a second murder takes place, everyone at Rutherford Hall seems in danger, so Miss Marple sets a trap to catch the murderer.

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, her extraordinary remark suddenly seems very important.

At the request of his friend Ariadne (an eccentric mystery lover based on Christie herself), Hercule arrives at a sprawling estate to partake in a weekend game of mock murder. But when the victim appears far too dead, the game stops and the detective work begins.

At the request of his friend Ariadne (an eccentric mystery lover based on Christie herself), Hercule arrives at a sprawling estate to partake in a weekend game of mock murder. But when the victim appears far too dead, the game stops and the detective work begins.

The Body in the Library is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1942 and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in May of the same year. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven
shillings and sixpence

When a rich lady is murdered, there is one obvious suspect. Even his wife says he is guilty - but then his lawyer discovers evidence that brings everything into question. Is anyone telling the truth? Accompanied by three other short stories: The Rajah's Emerald, Philomel
Cottage, and The Actress. Witness for the Prosecution is soon to be released as a major motion picture starring Ben Affleck.

Mrs Boynton, a cruel and hated woman, is found dead in the ancient city of Petra. Was it just a weak heart and too much sun that killed her, or has one of Mrs Boynton's many victims found revenge? By chance, the great detective Hercule Poirot has some useful information, but is it enough to find the killer? He has 24 hours to solve the case.

The Leonides family live together in a large and crooked house in a wealthy London suburb. When the elderly millionaire Aristide Leonides is murdered with a fatal injection,the family reluctantly suspect his glamorous, young second wife.Charles Hayward, who is engaged to the late
millionaire’s granddaughter, observes the family closely and makes a terrible and shocking discovery…

There is a dangerous atmosphere at Stoneygates, a centre for young criminals. When Miss Marple visits her friend there, she can sense the danger, too. One evening during her stay someone shoots at the administrator of the centre. He is not injured, but a visiting relative
is shot dead at the same time in another part of the building. Could this be a coincidence? Miss Marple must solve the mystery.

Mrs Boynton, a cruel and hated woman, is found dead in the ancient city
of Petra. Was it just a weak heart and too much sun that killed her, or
has one of Mrs Boynton’s many victims found revenge?

Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious light in the
school Sports Pavilion. Among the tennis racquets and lacrosse sticks,
they find the body of the unpopular games mistress – shot through the
heart.

The Leonides family live together in a large and crooked house in a
wealthy London suburb. When the elderly millionaire Aristide Leonides is
murdered with a fatal injection, the family reluctantly suspect his
glamorous, young second wife.

Hercule Poirot is travelling from France to England by plane. During the journey a passenger is murdered.
Someone
on the flight is guilty of the crime – but who could have a motive for
killing an elderly lady? And how is it possible that no one saw it
happen?

Famous scientists from around the world are disappearing and nobody
knows why. The one woman who can help uncover the truth is dying after a
plane crash. How can they discover where the scientists are without
her?

Strange items have disappeared from the student hostel on Hickory Road and Mrs Hubbard, the warden, is becoming suspicious.

Pretty, young Anne Beddingfeld comes to London looking for adventure.
But adventure finds her when she sees a man fall off an Underground
platform and die on the rails.

Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets – a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate-mail causes only a minor stir.
But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs Symmington, commits suicide.

’Anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe,’ declared the parson, brandishing a carving knife above a joint of roast beef, ‘would be doingthe world at large a service!’
It was a careless remark for a man of the cloth. And one which was to come back and haunt the clergyman just a few hours later

Roger Ackroyd is a man who knows too much.
He knows the woman
he loved poisoned her first husband. He knows someone was blackmailing
her – and now he knows she killed herself.

Recently, there have been some strange things happening at Styles, a
large country house in Essex. Evelyn Howard, a loyal friend to the
family for years, left the house after an argument with Mrs Inglethorp.
Mrs Inglethorp is then suddenly taken ill and dies. Has she been
poisoned? It is up to the famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to
find out what happened.

It is World War II and Britain’s best secret agent has been murdered.
The murderers are Nazi agents, known only as N and M, and could be
anyone. The only clue points towards the sleepy seaside village of
Leahampton and its busy guesthouse, Sans Souci.

Hercule Poirot, the famous detective, is on holiday in the south of
England when he meets a lady called Nick Buckley. Nick has had a lot of
mysterious ‘accidents’. First, her car brakes failed. Then, a large rock
just missed her when she was walking, and later, a painting almost fell
on her while she was asleep. Finally, Poirot finds a bullet hole in her
hat!

Rex Fortescue, the boss of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his
office, when he suffered a painful and sudden death. When the police
checked the victim’s pockets, they found grain.

Six people sit down for dinner at a table laid for seven. No one can
forget the night exactly a year ago that Rosemary Barton died at this
same table surrounded by the same people, her beautiful face turned blue
with cyanide poison.

A very important international meeting is planned in Baghdad, but a
secret organisation wants to sabotage it. Meanwhile, when a man dies in
Victoria’s hotel room, he whispers three words to her: ‘… Lucifer …
Basrah … Lefarge …’ What do these words mean? And what does it have to
do with the meeting?

There is a dangerous atmosphere at Stoneygates, a centre for young
criminals. When Miss Marple visits her friend there, she can sense the
danger, too. One evening during her stay someone shoots at the
administrator of the centre. He is not injured, but a visiting relative
is shot dead at the same time in another part of the building.

Bobby Jones is playing golf … terribly. As his ball disappears over the
edge of a cliff, he hears a cry. The ball is lost, but on the rocks
below he finds a dying man. With his final breath the man opens his eyes
and says, ‘Why didn’t they ask Evans?’