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Il più grande detective del mondo, Hercule Poirot, leggendario protagonista di moltissimi romanzi di Agatha Christie, si trova alle prese con uno sconcertante mistero natalizio. È il 19 dicembre 1931. Hercule Poirot e l'ispettore Edward Catchpool sono chiamati a indagare su uno strano omicidio, avvenuto all'interno di un ospedale nel Norfolk.

Vuelve la sucesora de la Gran Dama del Crimen en el caso más difícil de Hércules Poirot. En el centenario de su creación, vuelve Hércules Poirot, el detective más famoso y brillante de la historia de la novela negra, que ha conquistado a más de 2 billones de lectores. Irlanda, 1929. Lady Athelinda Playford, una reconocida escritora de novelas de detectives para niños, ha invitado a varias personas a pasar una semana con ella en Lillieoak, su casa de campo.

Hercule Poirot and his good friend Inspector Edward Catchpool arrive on the Greek island of Lamperos for a little holiday…or is it? Catchpool suspects Poirot has a different reason for being there — one he won't reveal. As the clock ticks towards the New Year and a festive guessing game takes a sinister turn, can Poirot stop a murderer who is determined to strike before midnight?

Det er efteråret 1929, da den verdensberømte børnebogsforfatter Lady Athelinda Playford inviterer sin familie, to betroede advokater, Edward Catchpool fra Scotland Yard og ikke mindst den karismatiske mesterdetektiv Hercule Poirot til en sammenkomst på sit landsted i Clonakilty, Irland. Her ryster hun hele forsamlingen, da hun annoncerer, at begge hendes børn er gjort arveløse, og at hun i stedet har testamenteret hele sin formue til sin sekretær, den dødssyge Joseph Scotcher.

Wer ist Barnabas Pandy und wurde er wirklich ermordet? Diese Frage stellt sich der berühmte Privatdetektiv Hercule Poirot, nachdem er Besuch von einer ihm vollkommen unbekannten und aufgebrachten Dame erhalten hat. Sie hat ihm einen Brief unter die Nase gehalten: Darin wird sie von Poirot des Mordes an besagtem Herrn Pandy bezichtigt. Und es soll nicht bei dieser einen mysteriösen Begegnung bleiben.

Lodnýn 1930. Hercule Poirot se spokojeně vrací z oběda, když ho před domovními dvěřmi překvapí rozzlobená žena a domáhá se vysvětlení, proč jí detektiv poslal dopis, v němž ji obviňuje z vraždy Barnabase Pandyho, když nikoho toho jména ani nezná. Hercule Poirot netuší, o čem je řeč. Jde snad o nějaký omyl či nejapný vtip? Kolik stejných dopisů, odeslaných jeho jménem, ještě koluje po Londýně? A kdo je Barnabas Pandy? Žije, nebo byl skutečně zavražděn?

Potomci Agathy Christie svolili k návratu Hercula Poirota na stránky nových napínavých příběhů - nesnadného úkolu důstojně navázat na tradici poirotovských detektivek se ujala bestsellerová autorka Sophie Hannah. Výsledkem jsou Vraždy s monogramem, spletitý případ zasazený do Londýna 20. let minulého století. Ďábelsky chytrý hlavolam plný falešných stop a snadno přehlédnutelných, o to však důležitějších detailů může rozřešit jen legendární belgický puntičkář a jeho brilantní "malé šedé buňky".

Lady Athelinda Playford has planned a house party at her mansion in Clonakilty, County Cork, but it is no ordinary gathering. As guests arrive, Lady Playford summons her lawyer to make an urgent change to her will - one she intends to announce at dinner that night. She has decided to cut off her two children without a penny and leave her fortune to someone who has only weeks to live.... Among Lady Playford's guests are two men she has never met - the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool of Scotland Yard.

Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffee house is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified, but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done. Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a fashionable London hotel have been murdered, and a cufflink has been placed in each one's mouth. Could there be a connection with the frightened woman?

The world’s greatest detective, Hercule Poirot – legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile – puts his little grey cells to work solving a baffling Christmas mystery.

Hercule Poirot is travelling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill estate. Richard Devonport has summoned him to prove that his fiancée, Helen, is innocent of the murder of his brother, Frank. There is one strange condition attached to this request: Poirot must conceal his true reason for being there from the rest of the Devonport family.

Internationally best-selling author Sophie Hannah and the world's favorite detective, Hercule Poirot, return in this follow-up to The Monogram Murders, the national best seller hailed by the Washington Post as "literary magic".

Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified - but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done. Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a fashionable London Hotel have been murdered, and a cufflink has been placed in each one’s mouth. Could there be a connection with the frightened woman?

1920 erschien der erste Kriminalroman von Agatha Christie. Seither haben sich ihre Bücher weltweit mehr als zwei Milliarden Mal verkauft. Jetzt haben die Erben von Agatha Christie erstmals der Veröffentlichung eines neuen Romans zugestimmt, der die beliebteste Figur der Schriftstellerin wieder zum Leben erweckt.

Die Bestsellerautorin Sophie Hannah ist seit ihrem dreizehnten Lebensjahr ein großer Fan von Agatha Christie.

Hercule Poirot’s tranquil afternoon is ruined when an angry woman accosts him outside his front door. She threatens to report the famous detective to Scotland Yard for falsely accusing her of murder. Seeking sanctuary inside, Poirot is startled to find that he has a visitor – another stranger claiming to have received a letter from Poirot accusing him of killing the same man.