Title in This Set:
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Cat Among the Pigeons
After the Funeral
DEATH IN THE CLOUDS
Murder on the Orient Express
Death on the Nile
Description:
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
‘Beware! Peril to the detective who says: “It is so small – it does notnmatter…” Everything matters.’
After the Great War, life can never be the same again. Wounds need healing, andnthe horror of violent death banished into memory.
Captain Arthur Hastings is invited to the rolling country estate of Styles tonrecuperate from injuries sustained at the Front. It is the last place henexpects to encounter murder. Fortunately he knows a former detective, a Belgiannrefugee, who has grown bored of retirement …
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned hernbrutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her.nNow, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with a drugnoverdose.
But the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information.nUnfortunately, before he could finish the letter, he was stabbed to death…
Cat Among the Pigeons
Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in thensports pavilion, while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among the lacrossensticks, they stumble upon the body of the unpopular games mistress – shotnthrough the heart from point blank range.
The school is thrown into chaos when the ‘cat’ strikes again. Unfortunately,nschoolgirl Julia Upjohn knows too much. In particular, she knows that withoutnHercule Poirot’s help, she will be the next victim…
After the Funeral
‘It’s been hushed up very nicely, hasn’t it? But he was murdered, wasn’t he?’
There are certain things that are best left unsaid. Though tragedy had touchednthe life of the wealthy Richard Abernethie, his sudden death seemed prettynunremarkable for a man of his age. So why would his sister wait until hisnfuneral to say he had been murdered?
When she is savagely killed with a hatchet the next day, her extraordinarynremark suddenly takes on a chilling significance. In desperation, the familynsolicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to unravel the mystery…
DEATH IN THE CLOUDS
From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow airnpassengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated withnthe man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealedncocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was beingntroubled by an aggressive wasp.
What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat thenslumped, lifeless body of a woman.
Murder on the Orient Express
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. Thenluxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by thenmorning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in hisncompartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.
nIsolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot mustnidentify the murderer – in case he or she decides to strike again.
Death on the Nile
The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery thatnLinnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish andnbeautiful, a girl who had everything – until she lost her life.
Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: ‘I’d like tonput my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.’ Yet innthis exotic setting nothing is ever quite what it seems…
