For those wondering what Agatha Christie thought about the holidays and winter, in general, tuck into a hot beverage and this collection of stories. And leave the front porch light on.
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An all-new collection of winter-themed stories from the Queen of Mystery, just in time for the holidays—including the original version of “Christmas Adventure,” never before released in the United States!
There’s a chill in the air and the days are growing shorter . . . It’s the perfect time to curl up in front of a crackling fire with these wintry whodunits from the legendary Agatha Christie. But beware of deadly snowdrifts and dangerous gifts, poisoned meals and mysterious guests. This chilling compendium of short stories—some featuring beloved detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple—is an essential omnibus for Christie fans and the perfect holiday gift for mystery lovers.
“Agatha Christie [is] the maestro of murder tales.” —People
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.
This file includes: The Mysterious Affair at Style and The Secret Adversary. According to Wikipedia:
Dame Agatha Christie, DBE, (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), was a British crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. She also wrote ...
In Death Comes As the End, Dame Agatha Christie transports us back to ancient Egypt
2000 B.C. where a priest’s daughter, investigating a suspicious death, uncovers an asp’s nest of jealousy, betrayal, and serial murder.It is Egypt in 2000 BC, ...
In Gates of Eden, Ethan Coen exhibits on the printed page the striking, twisted, yet
devastatingly on-target vision of modern American life familiar from his movies. The world within the world we live in comes alive in fourteen brazenly original ...
“Lippman is a writing powerhouse.”—USA Today New York Times bestselling author and winner of every major
prize awarded for crime fiction—including the Edgar®, Anthony, Shamus, Agatha, and Nero Wolfe Awards—Laura Lippman brilliantly demonstrates her astonishing agility as a ...
Like The Labors of Hercules, the twelve cases Poirot must solve in this captivating collection
of short crime fiction stories are dangerous, demanding, and positively ingenious.In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet—reasoned the detective—like Hercules he ...
Agatha Christie’s classic Murder in the Mews presents four mystifying criminal conundrums that will seriously test the
superior detecting skills of the unflappable Hercule Poirot.How did a woman holding a pistol in her right hand manage to shoot herself in the left ...
A quiet English village is plagued by a fiendish serial killer in Queen of Mystery
Agatha Christie’s classic thriller, Murder is Easy.Luke Fitzwilliam does not believe Miss Pinkerton’s wild allegation that a multiple murderer is at work in the quiet ...
Agatha Christie once again demonstrates her mastery of the short form mystery with Parker Pyne Investigates—short
stories of crime and detection featuring Parker Pyne, certainly one of the most unconventional private investigators ever to pursue a hot lead.Mrs. Packington felt alone, ...
