- : POSTERN OF FATE (No:2166)
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- : 9780007293315
- : Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property, they have inherited some worthless bric-a-brac, including a collection of antique books. While rustling through a copy of The Black Arrow, Tuppence comes upon a series of apparently random underlinings.
- : 13 -17 Yrs
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- : POSTERN OF FATE (No:2166)
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- : 9780007293315
- : Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property, they have inherited some worthless bric-a-brac, including a collection of antique books. While rustling through a copy of The Black Arrow, Tuppence comes upon a series of apparently random underlinings.
- : 13 -17 Yrs
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- : Ask a Policeman (No:2165)
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- : 9780007468645
- : This new edition, which is reproduced from a first printing of the book, is introduced by the author Martin Edwards, archivist of the Detection Club, and includes a never-before-published Preface by Agatha Christie, ‘Detective Writers in England’, in which she discusses her fellow writers in the Detection Club.
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- : A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED (No:2164)
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- : 9780007282586
- : A murder is announced in a small-town newspaper advertisement�and Miss Marple must unravel the fiendish puzzle when a crime does indeed occur. The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity when the Gazette advertises �A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m.� A childish practical joke? Or a spiteful hoax? Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, the locals arrive at Little Paddocks at the appointed time when, without warning, the lights go out and a gun is fired. When they come back on, a gruesome scene is revealed. An impossible crime? Only Miss Marple can unravel it
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- : FIVE LITTLE PIGS (No:2163)
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- : 9780007282449
- : It was an open and shut case. All the evidence said Caroline Crale poisoned her philandering husband, a brilliant painter. She was quickly and easily convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Now, sixteen years later, in a posthumous letter, Mrs. Crale has assured her grown daughter that she was innocent. But instead of setting the young woman's mind at ease, the letter only raises disquieting questions.
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- : A Daughter's A Daughter (No:2162)
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- : 9780007357918
- : This novel is written by Agatha Christie under the name of Mary Westmacott and is regarded by some as the writer's finest work, show a very different side of her talent. Daughter's opposition to her mother's plan to remarry threatening to destroy their relationship which forms the main plot of the novel.
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- : The MYSTEREOUS MR QUIN (No:2161)
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- : 9780007282647
- : A mysterious stranger appears at a New Year’s Eve party, becoming the enigmatic sleuthing sidekick to the snobbish Mr Satterthwaite… So far, it had been a typical New Year’s Eve house party. But Mr Satterthwaite – a keen observer of human nature – sensed that the real drama of the evening was yet to unfold.
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- : Agatha Christie- Poirot (No:2160)
- The life and times of Hercule Poirot
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- : 9780007282463
- : In his early years as a detective, Hercule Poirot is invited to a reception by the influential Van den Bosch family, for the announcement of their daughter’s engagement. But tensions amongst the guests run high as a snowstorm descends on the town, trapping everyone inside the manor. The happy event is soon marred by the murder of one of the guests… In the right place at the right time, Poirot immediately begins to investigate. What buried secrets and deadly rivalries will he uncover?
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- : N OR M ? (No:2159)
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- : 9780007282272
- : Tommy & Tuppence are hired to track down wartime spies at a seaside resort… It is World War II, and while the RAF struggles to keep the Luftwaffe at bay, Britain faces an even more sinister threat from ‘the enemy within’ – Nazis posing as ordinary citizens.
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- : Mrs Mcginty's dead (No:2158)
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- : 9780007293247
- : Mrs McGinty’s dead!’ ‘How did she die?’ ‘Down on one knee, just like I!’ The old children’s game now seemed rather tasteless. The real Mrs McGinty was killed by a crushing blow to the back of the head and her pitifully small savings were stolen. Suspicion falls immediately on her lodger, hard up and out of a job. Hercule Poirot has other ideas – unaware that his own life is now in great danger.
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