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One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been gabbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a massive seizure. But for whom was the deadly poison really intended? Marina's frozen expression suggested she had witnessed something horrific. But, while others searched for material evidence, Jane Marple conducted a very different investigation—into human nature. 

Read by Emilia Fox A dying man’s bewildering last words pull an inquisitive young man and his beautiful companion into a dangerous web of lethal secrets in Agatha Christie’s classic mystery, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? While playing an erratic round of golf, Bobby Jones slices his ball over...

Read by Hugh Fraser Considered by critics the one of the best of Agatha Christie’s later novels, and a personal favorite for Christie herself, Ordeal by Innocence is a psychological thriller involving crimes from both past and present. According to the courts, Jacko Argyle bludgeoned his...

Read by David Suchet When a mock murder game staged for charity threatens to turn into the real thing, the intrepid Hercule Poirot is called in to take part in this Dead Man’s Folly, a classic from the queen of suspense, Agatha Christie. Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete...

Read by Hugh Fraser When Lord Edgware Dies a most unnatural death, detective Hercule Poirot must solve a most confounding conundrum: if the obvious killer, the slain peer’s spiteful wife, didn’t do it, who did? A classic from the queen of mystery, Agatha Christie. When Lord Edgware is found...

Nick Buckley was an unusual name for a pretty young woman. But then she had led an unusual life. First, on a treacherous Cornish hillside, the brakes on her car failed. Then, on a coastal path, a falling boulder missed her by inches. Later, an oil painting fell and almost crushed her in bed. Upon discovering a bullet-hole in Nick's sun hat, Hercule Poirot decides the girl needs his protection. At the same time, he begins to unravel the mystery of a murder that hasn't been committed. Yet.

A unique offering from the Queen of Crime. This Agatha Christie Signature Edition features the hero the world-famous author was most fond of – Mr Harley Quin, the enigmatic friend and counterpart of the rational Mr Satterthwaite. So far, it had been a typical New Year’s Eve house party. But...

Read by Hugh Fraser The Sittaford Mystery is Dame Agatha at her most intriguing, as a séance in a snowbound house predicts a particularly grisly murder. In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective...

Un tranquillo villino vittoriano con vista sul mare e un bellissimo giardino: la casa ideale per due giovani sposi. Eppure, proprio in quella che considerava l'abitazione dei suoi sogni, Gwenda Reed comincia a provare un senso di angoscia collegato con vaghi ricordi dell'infanzia e con l'immagine, ricorrente nei suoi incubi, di una donna strangolata. Allucinazioni? Premonizioni? Gwenda e il marito si mettono a indagare e riportano alla luce un'oscura vicenda che risale a molti anni prima e che li coinvolge personalmente.

Pregata da un'amica, Miss Marple si è trasferita temporaneamente nell'immensa villa vittoriana di Stonygates dove il proprietario, Lewis Serrocold, ha organizzato un istituto di rieducazione per giovani delinquenti. Sull'antico edificio regna un'atmosfera di mistero che culmina nell'assassinio di un ricco filantropo in visita. L'ispettore Curry, incaricato nelle indagini, non sa come muoversi in quello strano ambiente di bizzarri idealisti, psichiatri e minorati mentali.

A classic Marple mystery, read by the inimitable Richard E. Grant. Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his ‘counting house' when he suffered an agonising and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain traces of cereals. Yet, it was the incident in the parlour which confirmed Jane Marple's suspicion that here she was looking at a case of crime by rhyme.

Read by Richard E. Grant The indomitable sleuth Miss Marple is led to a small town with shameful secrets in Agatha Christie’s classic detective story, The Moving Finger. Lymstock is a town with more than its share of scandalous secrets—a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate...

Miss Marple, Agatha Christie’s deceptively mild spinster sleuth, is being treated to a few days’ holiday by her niece, staying at Bertram’s Hotel, a dignified, unostentatious establishment tucked away in a back street of busy Mayfair. Here is a place where sedate upper class ladies, retired military gentlemen and the higher echelons of the clergy can indulge in the comforts of a bygone age. But Miss Marple begins to feel uneasy. Something sinister lurks beneath the polished veneer.

Read by Hugh Fraser In Agatha Christie’s Dumb Witness, Hercule Poirot investigates the very suspicious death of an elderly spinster who, fearing the very worst, had written to the great detective prior to her demise. Everyone blamed Emily Arundell’s accident on a rubber ball left on the...

Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, read by the inimitable Dan Stevens. 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.

In 1940s London, Hercule Poirot is cornered by the club bore and learns of a mysterious death - one which sets him off on one of his most intriguing cases. When Gordon Cloade is killed in a London air raid his vast fortune passes to his young wife Rosaleen. Cloade's relatives are desperate to...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on audio. This electric short story begins in October on the island of Rhodes, a veritable paradise of privacy, beauty and calm, or so Hercule Poirot has imagined. The reality is quite startlingly different. The...

Hercule Poirot befindet sich eigentlich auf der Durchreise in Bagdad, als er sich bereit erklärt, die Ermittlungen in einem komplizierten Mordfall zu übernehmen. Mrs Leidner, die Ehefrau eines Archäologen, wurde ermordet. Aus ihrem Tod ergeben sich Fragen, vor denen selbst die kleinen grauen Zellen des Meisterdetektivs scheinbar kapitulieren. Musste sie sterben, damit ein Mörder unerkannt bleibt? Poirot hat zwar viele Theorien, aber keine Beweise - bis er beinahe über ein Motiv stolpert.

Ob vermeintlicher Selbsmord, Kidnapping, Wirtschaftsbetrug oder Diamantenraub - Hercule kann es mit allen Verbrechern aufnehmen. Seine kleinen grauen Zellen arbeiten auf Hochtouren und so bringt er Ganoven und Mörder leichtg zur Strecke. Enthält: Stille vor dem Sturm, Der verräterische Garten, Poirot und der Kidnapper, Die Pralinenschachtel, Die verlorene Mine, Mord auf dem Siegesball, Tot im dritten Stock, Poirot geht stehlen, Lasst Blumen sprechen, Das Abenteuer des Kreuzkönigs, Das Geheimnis des Plymoth-Express, Das Erbe der Familie Lemesurier.