Hercule Poirot

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"For God's sake, come!" Unfortunately, by the time Hercule Poirot received Monsieur Renauld's urgent plea, the millionaire was already dead, stabbed in the back, lying in a freshly dug grave on the golf course of his adjoining Merlinville estate. There's no lack of suspects: his wife, whose dagger served as the weapon; his embittered son, who would have killed for independence; and his mistress, who refused to be ignored; and each felt deserving of the dead man's fortune. The police think they've found the culprit. Poirot has his doubts. A second murder proves him right.

First There Was The Mystery Of The Film Star And The Diamond& Then Came The Suicide That Was Murder& The Mystery Of The Absurdly Chaep Flat& A Suspicious Death In A Locked Gun-Room& A Million Dollar Bond Robbery& The Curse Of A Pharoah 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 Willl. What Links These Fascinating Cases? Only The Brilliant Deductive Powers Of Hercule Poirot!

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The New-Look Series Of Hercule Poirot Books For The 21St Century. Framed In The Doorway Of Poirot S Bedroom Stood An Uninvited Guest, Coated From Head To Foot In Dust. The Man S Gaunt Face Stared For A Moment, Then He Swayed And Fell. Who Was He? Was He Suffering From Shock Or Just Exhaustion? Above All, What Was The Significance Of The Figure 4, Scribbled Over And Over Again On A Sheet Of Paper? Poirot Finds Himself Plunged Into A World Of International Intrigue, Risking His Life To Uncover The Truth About Number Four .

The daughter of an American millionaire dies on a train en route for Nice...

On holiday on the Cornish Riviera, Hercule Poirot is alarmed to hear pretty Nick Buckley describe her recent "accidental brushes with death."

Agatha Christie's famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to 'get rid of' her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead. And yet the great Belgian detective couldn't help feeling that he was being taken for a ride. After all, how could Jane have stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? And what could be her motive now that the aristocrat had finally granted her a divorce?

Slavný detektiv Hercule Poirot a jeho přítel kapitán Hastings se střetávají s neobyčejně vychytralým vrahem, který zabíjí rychle, nemilosrdně a bez sebemenších výčitek svědomí. Svou vychytralostí položí na lopatky nejen inspektora Jappa ze Scotland Yardu, ale i samotného Hercule Poirota. Ten sice záhadu nakonec vyřeší, ale sám tento případ považuje za jeden ze svých řídkých neúspěchů. Vyšlo také pod názvem Lord Edgware umírá.... celý text

Čtvrtý baron Edgware byl tajnůstkář, měl svérázný vkus a prapodivné choutky. Za svého života sbíral morbidní umělecké kousky, a když jednoho rána objevila služebná jeho zavražděné tělo v pracovně, na mrtvého shlížely z polic spisy markýze de Sade, Casanovovy paměti a knihy o mučení. „Jestli se se mnou nerozvede, budu ho muset odkráglovat,“ prohlásila nedlouho předtím lehkomyslně jeho krásná mladá manželka, a tak není divu, že se ocitla na čelném místě seznamu podezřelých. Jenže u jedné smrti nakonec nezůstane a Hercule Poirot musí dokázat, že není skřipec jako skřipec, mrtví někdy hovoří a zločin může být umělecké dílo. Vyšlo také pod názvem Smrt lorda Edgwarea.

Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer - in case he or she decides to strike again.

Thirteen guests arrived for dinner at the actores house. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, went into convulsions and died.

Als Pfarrer Babbington auf einer Party an seinem Cocktail nippt, bricht er tot zusammen. Wenig später kommt es bei einem Dinner zur nächsten Tragödie, und auch der hoch angesehene Arzt Sir Bartholomew Strange stirbt. Poirot hegt keinen Zweifel daran, dass die beiden Unglücksfälle miteinander zusammenhängen. Denn immerhin waren bei beiden Anlässen dieselben Gäste zugegen. Doch wer von ihnen hatte ein Motiv für gleich zwei Morde?

Originally published in 1935 under the title Death in the air.

Hercule Poirot has received a letter which is simply signed ‘ABC’. The writer promises a mystery that is too difficult even for the great mind of the famous Belgian detective. Poirot is worried by the letter, but there seems to be no case to solve. And then the murders begin.

De geheimzinnige mijnheer Shaitana 'verzamelt' niet-ontdekte moordenaars. Een gevaarlijke hobby, die hem ten slotte het leven kost. Hercule Poirot, die op het moment dat Shaitana werd vermoord bij hem op bezoek was, moet zien uit te zoeken wie van de gasten de gastheer heeft vermoord. Hoewel hij uit de manier waarop de verdachten die avond bridge speelden heel wat kan opmaken over hun karakter, blijft het een ingewikkelde zaak...

CLASSIC CRIME. A new paperback slipcase featuring six of Hercule Poirot's very best cases. 'My name is Hercule Poirot and I am probably the greatest detective in the world.' This new boxed set of paperbacks collects six of Hercule Poirot's most famous and best-loved cases, perfect for readers who who would like to be introduced - or introduce their friends - to some of the twentieth century's most iconic murder books. This boxed set contains six quintessential Poirot classics: Death on the Nile, Evil Under the Sun, Appointment with Death, Murder in Mesapotamia, The Hollow, and Cat Among the Pigeons.

Ve slavné povídce Agathy Christie Smrt na Nilu, která je rovněž známá z filmového přepisu, se Parker Pyne nalodí spolu s pestrou společností na palubu parníku Fayoum, aby poznával monumentální krásy Egypta. Podezřením lady Grayleové, že ji chce manžel otrávit, však začíná série záhadných úmrtí, jejichž pachatele je třeba odhalit, než plavba skončí, a tak má Parker Pyne po dovolené. Výbor obsahuje rovněž povídky Vila Filomela, Plány na ponorku a Herečka. Bilingvní česko-anglické vydání.

Everyone blamed Emily Arundell’s accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs at her home in Market Basing by her frisky terrier, Bob. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her.So, on April 17th she wrote about her anxieties and suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. And included a request that he consult with her as soon as possible. Mysteriously he didn’t receive the letter until June 28th … by which time Emily was already dead.

How Did A Woman Holding A Pistol In Her Right Hand Manage To Shoot Herself In The Left Temple? What Was The Link Between A Ghost Sighting And The Disappearance Of Top Secert Military Plans? How Did The Bullet That Killed Sir Gervase Shatter A Mirror In Another Part Of The Room? And Who Destroyed The Eternal Triangle Of Love Involving Renowned Beauty, Valentine Chantry? Hercule Poirot Is Faced With Four Mystifying Cases Murder In The Mews, The Incredible Theft, Dead Man S Mirror And Triangle At Rhodes Each A Miniature Classic Of Characterisation, Incident And Suspense.

Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her. With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he’d overheard back in Jerusalem:‘You do see, don’t you, that she’s got to be killed?’ Mrs Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he’d ever met… Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. She wrote 80 crime mysteries and collections, and saw her work translated into more languages than Shakespeare. Her enduring success, enhanced by many film and TV adaptations, is a tribute to the timeless appeal of her characters and the unequalled ingenuity of her plots. ‘Twice as brilliant as 'Death an the Nile', which was entirely brilliant.’THE OBSERVER

In Hercule Poirot's Christmas, the holidays are anything but merry when a family reunion is marred by murder — and the notoriously fastidious investigator is quickly on the case. The wealthy Simeon Lee has demanded that all four of his sons — one faithful, one prodigal, one impecunious, one sensitive — and their wives return home for Christmas. But a heartwarming family holiday is not exactly what he has in mind. He bedevils each of his sons with barbed insults and finally announces that he is cutting off their allowances and changing his will. Poirot is called in the aftermath of Simeon Lee's announcement.

The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung right hand. Later, one of his patients was found dead from a lethal dose of local anaesthetic. A clear case of murder and suicide. But why would a dentist commit a crime in the middle of a busy day of appointments?

Beautiful Young Elinor Carlisle Stood Serenely In The Dock, Accused Of The Murder Of Mary Gerrard, Her Rival In Love. The Evidence Was Damning: Only Elinor Had The Motive, The Opportunity And The Means To Administer The Fatal Poison. Yet, Inside The Hostile Courtroom, Only One Man Still Presumed Elinor Was Innocent Until Proven Guilty: Hercule Poirot Was All That Stood Between Elinor And The Gallows&

It was not unusual to find the beautiful bronzed body of the sun-loving Arlena Stuart stretched out on a beach, face down. Only, on this occasion, there was no sun...she had been strangled. Ever since Arlena's arrival at the resort, Hercule Poirot had detected sexual tension in the seaside air. But could this apparent 'crime of passion' have been something more evil and premeditated altogether? Belgian detective Hercule Poirot interrupts his vacation on Smugglers' Island to help the local police invetigate the murder of an attractive woman.

Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects - Philip Blake (the stockbroker) who went to market; Meredith Blake (the amateur herbalist) who stayed at home; Elsa Gree (the three-time divorcee) who had roast beef; Cecilia Williams (the devoted governess) who had none; and Angela Warren (the disfigured sister) who cried all the way home. It is sixteen years later, but Hercule Poirot just can't get that nursery rhyme out of his mind...

An unhappy game of romantic follow-the-leader explodes into murder one weekend at The Hollow, home of Sir Henry and Lucy Angkatell. Dr. Cristow is at the center of the trouble when his mistress Henrietta, ex-mistress Veronica, and wife Gerda, simultaneously arrive at The Hollow. Also visiting are Edward (who is in love with Henrietta) and Midge (who loves Edward). Veronica ardently desires to marry Cristow and succeeds in reopening their affair but is unable to get him to divorce his wife. Veronica unwisely states that if she cannot have him, no one shall. Within five minutes Cristow is dead. Nearly everyone has a motive and most had the opportunity. Enter Inspector Colquhoun and Sergeant Penny to solve the crime.

Hercule Poirot staves off retirement for another irresistible case. In this title, each of the 12 chapters is a short story dealing with one of Hercules's labors.

Shortly after marrying an attractive young widow, Gordon Cloade is killed by a bomb blast in the blitz. The former Mrs Underhay is now in sole possession of the family fortune. Poirot is approched by Gordon's sister in law claiming that Mrs Underhay's first husband is still alive.

Eine schrecklich abgründige Familie Gordon Cloade war ein reicher Mann. So reich, dass er Zeit seines Lebens seinem gesamten Familienclan unter die Arme greifen konnte. Nun ist er tot und die Familie muss mit ansehen, wie sein Reichtum komplett an die Frau geht, die er gerade erst geheiratet hat. Womit das Erbe für die junge Witwe zu einer äußerst ungemütlichen Angelegenheit wird, zumal nicht nur der gesamte Clan hinter ihm her ist. Spätestens als ein Mord geschieht, sind die Dinge so verwickelt, dass nur noch einer sie lösen kann: Hercule Poirot.

An old widow is brutally killed in the parlour of her cottage…

The master of a Victorian mansion dies suddenly – and his sister is convinced it was murder…. When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard’s funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richard’s will, Cora was clearly heard to say: ‘It’s been hushed up very nicely, hasn’t it…But he was murdered, wasn’t he?’ In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to unravel the mystery.

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?

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. When a mock murder game staged for charity threatens to turn into the real thing, the intrepid Poirot is called in to take part in this Dead Man's Folly.

Unpleasant things are going on in an exclusive school for girls - things like murder...Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of the unpopular games mistress - shot through the heart from point blank range.The school is thrown into chaos when the `cat' strikes again. Unfortunately, schoolgirl Julia Upjohn knows too much. In particular, she knows that without Hercule Poirot's help, she will be the next victim...

- The adventure of the Christmas pudding - The mystery of the Spanish chest - The under dog - Four-and-twenty blackbirds - The dream - Greenshaw's folly

Sir Claud Amory's revolutionary new formula for a powerful explosive is stolen. Locking his house-guests in the library, Sir Claud switches off the lights to allow the thief to replace the formula, no questions asked. When the lights come on, he is dead, and Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings have to unravel a tangle of family feuds, old flames and suspicious foreigners to find the killer and prevent a global catastrophe.

A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples. At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce, a hostile thirteen-year-old, boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub.That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the 'evil presence.' But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer!

Hercule Poirot, the relentless Belgian detective, investigates when a body is found in Miss Millicent Pebmarsh's sitting room with four strange clocks set at 4:13.

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.

Still in the formative years of his career, Hercule Poirot faces a most taxing case: who killed Lord Cronshaw, was Coco Courtenay's death on the same night a coincidence and did she deliberately take an overdose of cocaine?

Der Tod feiert Halloween Joyce Reynolds ist kein beliebtes Mädchen und als Lügnerin bekannt. Als sie auf einer Halloween-Party allen erzählt, sie hätte einen Mord beobachtet, glaubt ihr niemand. Kurze Zeit später wird Joyce tot aufgefunden und der eilends herbeigerufene Hercule Poirot steht vor der Frage, ob er statt eines Mörders nicht vielmehr einen Doppelmörder sucht. Die Halloween-Party ist die Romanvorlage für A Haunting in Venice, die neueste Christie-Verfilmung von Kenneth Branagh (Regie und Hauptrolle) und Michael Green (Drehbuch). Mit einem Vorwort des Drehbuchautors Michael Green "Ein donnernder Erfolg. Und ein Triumphzug für Hercule Poirot." Daily Mirror

In this last of the Hercule Poirot mysteries, Poirot and the faithful Hastings both old and decrepit, are again at Styles the scene of the first Poirot novel. Styles has also fallen on evil days and has become a kind of boarding house seething with murderable people. The question is: who is the one to be murdered?

Hercule Poirot agrees to help a friend investigate the twelve-year-old double suicide deaths of Lord and Lady Ravenscroft.

Posledný prípad slávneho detektíva Hercula Poirota napísala Agatha Christie ešte začiatkom 40. rokov minulého storočia, počas druhej svetovej vojny, no svetlo sveta uzrel až v r. 1975, rok pred smrťou legendárnej spisovateľky. Táto skvelá detektívka vychádza v novom vydaní. Keď Hercule Poirot a jeho dávny priateľ kapitán Hastings dostanú list zo starého vidieckeho sídla Styles Court, kde pred rokmi spolu vyriešili prvý prípad vraždy, obaja majú pocit, že je to osud, a bez váhania sa tam vyberú. Na zámku Styles, ktorý jeho noví majitelia zmenili na súkromný hotel, došlo už k piatim úmrtiam a slávny detektív čoskoro príde na to, že majú do činenia s chladnokrvným sériovým vrahom. Jeho identitu však neodhalí ani Hastingsovi, iba mu prezradí, že záhadný X je jeden z hotelových hostí. Poirot, sužovaný ťažkou artritídou, si čoraz naliehavejšie uvedomuje, že ak chce zabrániť ďalšej vražde, musí rýchlo konať, aj keby mal pri tom riskovať vlastný život...

Keď kapitán Hastings dostane list od dávneho priateľa Hercula Poirota zo Styles Courtu, kde kedysi spolu vyriešili prvý prípad vraždy, ihneď sa tam vyberie. Slávny detektív mu prezradí, že je na stope sériovému vrahovi. Jeho identitu však neodhalí, iba naznačí, že záhadný X je jeden z hotelových hostí. Poirot si čoraz naliehavejšie uvedomuje, že ak chce zabrániť ďalšej vražde, musí konať, aj keby mal pritom riskovať vlastný život.

Vorhang auf für Hercule Poirots letzten Fall! Poirot, inzwischen von Arthritis gezeichnet und gelähmt, bittet seinen alten Freund Captain Hastings, zu ihm auf den Landsitz Styles mit seiner illustren Gesellschaft zu kommen. Einst haben die beiden hier ihren ersten gemeinsamen Fall gelöst. Nun soll Hastings sich an Poirots Stelle an die Fersen eines Serienmörders heften, dessen Identität Poirot zwar längst klar ist, für dessen Überführung ihm jedoch die Beweise fehlen. Und so betitelt er den Täter auch Hastings gegenüber nur als »X«. Dass X wieder zuschlägt, ist für Poirot nur eine Frage der Zeit. Aber wird es Hastings gelingen, seinem alten Freund zu helfen und dem Mörder zuvorzukommen?