Sensible Elspeth McGillicuddy is not given to hallucinations. Until she boards the Paddington Station train and becomes a witness to an apparent murder. Or did she? No one believes her but her friend-the indomitable sleuth Miss Jane Marple.

Miss Jane Marple, Agatha Christie’s most appealing sleuth, returns in this classic baffler of a vacation-turned-deadly.

A Hercule Poirot novel.

An English country house at Christmas time, with its crackling log fires and fine food, may seem an incongruous setting for a crime -- but a sinister note left on his pillow tells Hercule Poirot everything is not as it seems.

The classic ingredients-the battling family, the jealous heir, the reading of the will, the murder, and Detective Hercule Poirot-means classic Christie.

Ten people, each with something to hide and something to fear, are invited to a lonely mansion on Indian Island by a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear. On the island they are cut off from everything but each other and the inescapable shadows of...

Hercule Poirot's tour of Jerusalem ends in murder when the impossible Mrs. Boyton turns up dead. The victim had taken such pleasure in inflicting misery on her own family that the plausibles uspects are many. But which one was desperate enough to kill?

Miss Jane Marple is enjoying her stay at London's elegant Bertram's Hotel. But its impeccable, old-world reputation is tarnished by new blood when someone disreputable checks in...

"Auf dem Boden ausgestreckt lag der Körper eines Mannes. Seine gebrochenen Augen waren halb geöffnet. Vorn auf seinem dunkelgrauen Anzug war ein dunkler, feuchter Fleck. Fast mechanisch beugte sich Sheila über ihn....

In ganz London scheint es kein friedlicheres Fleckchen zu geben als Bertrams Hotel: ein prächtiges altes Gebäude, eine Atmosphäre, an der die Zeit spurlos vorübergegangen ist, und eine Schar höchst ehrenwerter Gäste.

A ruthless international cartel seeks world domination…