The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings… First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond… then came the ‘suicide’ that was murder… the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat… a suspicious death in a locked gun-room… a million dollar bond robbery… the curse of a pharaoh’s tomb… a jewel robbery by the sea… the abduc...(展开全部)

The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings… First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond… then came the ‘suicide’ that was murder… the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat… a suspicious death in a locked gun-room… a million dollar bond robbery… the curse of a pharaoh’s tomb… a jewel robbery by the sea… the abduc...(展开全部)

In a police procedural by Japan's foremost master of mystery, Inspector Imanishi Eitaro, a typically Japanese detective fond of gardening and haiku, must follow a killer's trail across the social strata of Japan.

A collection of short stories featuring the 'heart specialist', Parker Pyne. Mrs Packington felt alone, helpless and utterly forlorn. But her life changed when she stumbled upon an advertisement in The Times which read: 'ARE YOU UNHAPPY? IF NOT, CONSULT MR PARKER PYNE'. Equally adept at putting together the pieces of a marriage or the fragments of a murder mystery, Mr Parker ...(展开全部)

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 deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat sl...(展开全部)

Take one dead lothario; add his jealous wife accused of his murder; toss in a devoted daughter who wants to clear her mother's name, and you get one of the greatest challenges of Hercule Poirot's career.

A cocktail party ends in murder, but who did it? Why? And for that matter, how? No real cause of death has been established. It's a real baffler and it's prompting Hercule Poirot to ask another question...who's next?

Captain Hastings recounts 18 of Poirot's early cases from the days before he was famous...Hercule Poirot delighted in telling people that he was probably the best detective in the world. So turning back the clock to trace eighteen of the cases which helped establish his professional reputation was always going to be a fascinating experience. With his career still in its formati...(展开全部)

苏菲·汉娜，蜚声国际的犯罪小说作家，其作品曾荣登《星期日泰晤士报》《纽约时报》和 亚马逊电子书英国畅销榜榜首。她的著作已被翻译成四十九种语言，在全球五十一个国家和地区发行，销量逾数百万册。她以创作当代心理惊悚小说闻名，并应阿加莎·克里斯蒂产权会官方邀请，续写赫尔克里·波洛系列新篇。 2023年，苏菲的谋杀悬疑音乐剧《E先生之谜》被搬上大银幕，现已在亚马逊 Prime和Apple TV+上线，并将很快登陆其他多个流媒体平台。同年，凭借其卓越的文学成就，苏菲荣获英国犯罪小说作家协会颁发的“图书馆匕首奖”。2013年，其惊悚小说《致命伴侣》斩获英国国家图书奖年度犯罪惊悚小说奖项。苏菲亦是一位诗人，曾入围“T.S.艾略特诗歌奖”决选名单，其诗作在英国各地的中等教育普通证书考试、中学高级水平考试及大学学位课程中均被列为研习文本。 苏菲是“梦想作家工坊”的创立者...(展开全部)

喜爱日光浴的阿琳娜·斯图尔特美丽的棕色身体脸朝下横陈在海滩上，但是这一次没有阳光——她被人勒死了。阿琳娜一出现，赫尔克里·波洛就在海滩的空气中嗅到了情欲的气息。但是，这个显而易见的“激情犯罪”中，也许包含着更多的邪恶和阴谋？赫尔克里·波洛探长该如何侦破这一悬案？