A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passenger plane...From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp.What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman.
The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette that read: "A Murder is Announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6:30 p.m." Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, a crowd begins to gather at Little Paddocks at the appointed time when, without warning, the lights go...
ISBN: 978-0-00-819655-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: январь 2018
`Key is in the lock all right, sir. On the inside. Mr Ackroyd must have locked himself in.`Poor Roger Ackroyd. He knew that the woman he loved had been harbouring a guilty secret - she poisoned her first husband. And yesterday she killed herself.But guilty secrets rarely stay secret. Who had been blackmailing her before her death? Had it really driven her to suicide? And would it all be revealed in the letter that arrived in the evening post? Sadly Roger Ackroyd wasn`t going to live long enough to find out...
When Agatha Christie died in 1976, aged 85, she had become the world`s most popular author. Publishing at least one book every year since the 1920s, each one a bestseller, it was even claimed that Agatha must have a photographic memory. Was this true? Or did she resort to more mundane methods of planning her ingenious crimes? Unearthed among Agatha Christie`s affairs at the family home of Greenway were her private notebooks, 73 volumes in Agatha`s almost unreadable handwriting. When archivist John Curran began deciphering the notebooks, the extent of this treasure trove became This book lifts the lid on Agatha Christie`s biggest secret -how her pencilled notes, lists and drafts led to her many successful books, plays and stories....
ISBN: 978-0-00-731057-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
