Russell's ebook Library
1 - Poirot Investigates
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [1]: A collection of short stories which see Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigating all manner of crimes.The Adventure of "The Western Star" [Hercule Poirot 26]The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor [Hercule Poirot 12]The Adventure of th...
2 - The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [2]: Who poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorpe, and how did the murderer penetrate and escape from her locked bedroom?Suspects abound in the quaint village of Styles St. Mary — from the heiress’s fawning new husband to her two stepson...
4 - Poirot's Early Cases
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [4]: With his career still in its formative years, we learn many things about how Poirot came to exercise those famous 'grey cells' so well.The Affair at the Victory Ball [Hercule Poirot 05]The Adventure of the Clapham Cook [Hercule Po...
27 - The Murder on the Links
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [27]: An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course. But why is the dead man wearing his son's overco...
29 - The Big Four
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [29]: Hercule Poirot is preparing for a voyage to South America. Looming in the doorway of his bedroom is an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust and mud. The man’s gaunt face registers Poirot for a moment, and then he col...
30 - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [30]: E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on The Murder of Roger Ackroyd2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detectiveThe Murder of Roger Ackroyd broke all the ru...
31 - The Mystery of the Blue Train
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [31]: When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again – for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost recognition. What i...
35 - Black Coffee
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [35]: This little known mystery will surprise and delight Christie fans.The story concerns a physicist named Sir Claude Amory who has come up with a formula for an atom bomb. In the first act, Sir Claude is poisoned (in his coffee, nat...
38 - Peril at End House
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [38]: 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 inc...
39 - Lord Edgware Dies
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [39]: Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to 'get rid of' her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead, but how could Jane have stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at exactly the same time she was s...
40 - Murder in Mesopotamia
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [40]: E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Murder in Mesopotamia2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detectiveNurse Amy Leatheran had never felt the lure of the...
41 - Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [41]: E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Murder on the Orient Express2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detectiveJust after midnight, a snowstorm stops the ...
42 - Three Act Tragedy
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [42]: The novel opens as a theatre programme, with this telling credit: ‘Illumination by HERCULE POIROT.’Light must be shed, indeed, on the fateful dinner party staged by the famous actor Sir Charles Cartwright for thirteen guests. It ...
43 - Death in the Clouds
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [43]: 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-conc...
45 - The ABC Murders
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [45]: There's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way though the alphabet. There seems little chance of the murderer being caught - until her makes the crucial and vain mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot to frustrate ...
46 - Dumb Witness
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [46]: After an accident on the stairs, Emily becomes convinced that one of her relatives is trying to kill her. On April 17th she writes her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously he doesn't receive the letter until Jun...
48 - Triangle at Rhodes
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [48]: October on the island of Rhodes is a veritable paradise of privacy, beauty, and calm - or so Hercule Poirot has imagined. The reality is quite different, as the arrival of famed Chanel beauty Valentine Chantry causes a ripple of ...
49 - Murder in the Mews
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [49]: E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Murder in the Mews2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detectiveIn Murder in the Mews, Poirot and Inspector Japp coll...
50 - Cards on the Table
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [50]: Mr. Shaitana was famous as a flamboyant party host, but he was a man of whome everybody was a little afraid. So, when he boasted to Hercule Poirot that he considered murder and art form, the detective had some reservations about...
51 - Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [51]: The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful. A girl who had everything… until she lost her life. Hercule Po...
52 - Appointment with Death
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [52]: Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her. With only 24 hours availab...
53 - Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [53]: Agatha Christie’s seasonal mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a dea...
56 - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [56]: The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung right hand. Later, one of his patients was found dead from a lethal dose of local anaesthetic. A clear case of murder...
57 - Sad Cypress
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [57]: Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poi...
58 - The Labors of Hercules
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [58]: E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on The Labours of Hercules;2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective.In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled ...
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