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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A wealthy banker walks out of his country house one Saturday afternoon to post a few letters. He never comes back. His safe has been robbed of jewels, a mysterious visitor called at the house that same day, and the police soon arrest a suspect with a...

Egy kis közel-keleti ország felvilágosult uralkodója a lázadók elől repülőgépen menekül. Családi kincseit azonban biztonságos helyre menti, hogy kijuttassa az országból, ha ő netán szerencsétlenül járna. Egy előkelő angliai leánynevelő intézetben gyilkosság történik, majd még egy.

Bantry ezredes és felesége békésen alussza reggeli álmát, amikor beront hálószobájukba a rémült szobalány: egy holttest van a könyvtárszobában! Megérkezik a rendőrség, de az agilis Mrs. Bantry áthívja közelben lakó barátnőjét, Miss Marple-t is. A Scotland Yard is a helyi rendőrség segítségére siet, ám a rejtélyt a kedves, idős hölgy oldja meg, akinek mindig kéznél vannak bevált "fegyverei", a bölcsesség, az élettapasztalat, az emberismeret és a pengeéles logika.

Kort før et rutefly fra Paris skal lande i Croydon, findes en af passagererne død. Ved første øjekast ligner det en allergisk reaktion over for et hvepsestik, men Hercule Poirot, der tilfældigvis er om bord, konkluderer hurtigt, at der er tale om en giftpil. Men hvem kan have affyret pilen...

Mllionæren mr. Rafiel er en gammel bekendt af miss Marple. Kort efter hans død modtager miss Marple et mærkeligt postkort fra ham, hvori han opfordrer hende til at søge retfærdighed og opklare en gammel forbrydelse. Hun vil arve 20.000 pund, hvis det lykkes. Han nævner bare ikke, hvem...

Miss Marple er på ferie i det solrige Vestindien. På luksushotellet Golden Palms bliver hun underholdt af major Palgrave – han beretter om sine safarier og sine militære bedrifter og serverer også gerne skandalehistorier. En dag fortæller majoren en fantastisk historie om en mand, hvis...

A mysterious séance. A brutal murder. A race against time to uncover the truth. When a group of friends gathers for a winter evening at the remote village of Sittaford, a harmless séance takes a chilling turn. The spirit board reveals a shocking message: Captain Trevelyan has been murdered. As suspicion falls on the captain's closest associates, one determined young woman refuses to accept the obvious explanation.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. It's 1920, and postwar London is a dull place for two aimless young adventurers: Thomas Beresford, a former army driver just home from the trenches, and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley, a quick-witted, irrepressible young woman who once drove an ambulance in...

Nesta coletânea de quatro contos da Rainha do Crime, o amado detetive Hercule Poirot está de volta para investigar casos nada comuns. Em Assassinato no beco, prepare-se para narrativas envolvendo um homicídio disfarçado de suicídio, o roubo de planos militares ultrassecretos, a morte...

The Murder at the Vicarage introduces Miss Jane Marple, Agatha Christie’s quietly formidable observer of human nature. When Colonel Protheroe is found dead in the vicarage, the village of St Mary Mead becomes a web of suspicion, secrets, and motive. Through careful observation and a deep...

Im britischen Detection Club versammelte sich die Crème de la Crème des Krimigenres – neben Agatha Christie und Dorothy L. Sayers etwa auch G. K. Chesterton und Anthony Berkeley Cox. Gemeinsam haben diese vier und neun weitere Autoren 1931 einen Kriminalroman geschrieben, der seinesgleichen sucht: Jedes Kapitel stammt aus einer anderen Feder, und keiner der Autoren wusste beim Schreiben, welche Auflösung die Verfasserin des vorherigen Kapitels im Sinn hatte.

The term “sour grapes” is often used in reference to an instance in which someone adopts an attitude to something because they can’t equal it themselves. That was certainly the case when a 20th century critic wrote a derogatory article in the New York Magazine, stating: “Who cares Who...

Published in 1920, this was the first book in a fantastic literary career for Agatha Christie. She went on to become the top-selling fiction author of all time with sales reaching an incredible one billion in English and another billion in a multitude of foreign language translations. Altogether...

An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Hercule Poirot's interest. But then he saw the list of stolen and vandalized items: a stethoscope, some old flannel trousers, a box of chocolates, a slashed rucksack, and a diamond ring found in a bowl...

Not one, but two dead bodies are discovered on a French golf course, leaving Hercule Poirot to unravel a grisly conundrum. Hercule Poirot receives an urgent cry for help from a client summoning him to France. But he is too late, and arrives to find his client facedown in a shallow grave on a...

When the recently orphaned Anne Beddingfield moves to London to live with her late father’s solicitor and his wife, she is ready for adventure to find her, and find her it most certainly does. While waiting for the tube after a failed job interview, Anne witnesses a man fall off the...

Agatha Christie’s debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, features the first appearance of the eccentric Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. Poirot must use his unusual methods and his singular charm to solve the murder of the rich, elderly Emily Inglethorpe. Fortunately, Poirot’s old...

There were not less than seven people at the fashionable estate in Essex, England, who might have abided Emily Inglethorp if she were more dead than alive. There were not less than seven motives and no fewer than seven apparently fool-proof alibis when the wealthy lady of Styles lay dead in her...

Quando, a mezzogiorno di una bella giornata di settembre, l'aereo di linea Parigi-Londra decolla dall'aeroporto di Le Bourget i passeggeri sistemati nella parte posteriore del velivolo sono undici; quando atterra a Croydon uno di essi è cadavere. Si tratta di Madame Giselle Morisot, un'anziana e ricchissima usuraia parigina uccisa - almeno così sembra - da una minuscola freccia avvelenata lanciata con una cerbottana.

L'omicidio dell’anziana signora McGinty sarà come una bomba a scoppio ritardato nel tranquillo paesino di Broadhinny... perché si sa, se sulla scena appare Hercule Poirot, lo spettacolo è assicurato. Coinvolto dal titolare delle indagini nella missione impossibile di salvare il reo confesso a pochi giorni dalla forca, nel corso delle sue ricerche metterà sottosopra la vita degli abitanti del villaggio.