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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 15
Language
English
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All the best ingredients are here: an idyllic cruise in an exotic setting, a beautiful young woman on her honeymoon, a shocking murder with suspects galore. Fortunately Hercule Poirot is on the scene, thanks to a cruise holiday on the River Nile, and he exercises all his "little grey cells" in probing the passengers' airtight alibis.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Set in the summer of 1917, the story follows the war-wounded Hastings to the Styles St. Mary estate of his friend John Cavendish. The Cavendish household is wrought with tension due to the marriage of John's widowed mother to a suspicious younger man. In the village, Hastings runs into his old friend Hercule Poirot and, when the estate's trouble turns deadly, the friends unite to solve a most baffling case.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1984, c1935
Physical Desc
230 p. : diagram.
Language
English
Description
Poirot is on a flight from Paris to London when a woman is found to have died during the flight. She was apparently murdered with a blowgun dart poisoned with snake venom. All of the passengers are under suspicion even though it seems no one came near the victim.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Hercule Poirot may be on vacation, but a killer isn't. The victim's a hateful tourist despised even by her own children. For the guests at the resort hotel, sympathies are with the murderer, which means a tough job for the Belgian detective.
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Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
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Description
"Framed in the doorway of Hercule Poirot's bedroom stands an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man stares for a moment, then he sways and falls. Who is he? Is he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what is the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper? Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigue, risking his life--and that of his 'twin brother'--to uncover...
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Series
Publisher
Harpers Audio
Pub. Date
p2001
Edition
Unabridged
Physical Desc
5 CDs (6.25 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On an airplane bound for London from Paris, one of the 11 passengers is dead. The small red puncture wound on the woman's neck might have been accepted as a sting from a wasp, but luck is not on the killer's side. Hercule Poirot is aboard the plane, and he discovers a thorn typically used with a blowpipe near the victim's feet. As he tackles the case, suspicion points in all directions, even back at Poirot. Can he prevent the culprit from getting...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 32
Language
English
Description
Hercule Poirot investigates the death of a girl who shortly before her death had claimed to have seen a murder being committed.
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 22
Language
English
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Description
When Hercule Poirot arrives for lunch at Lucy Angkatell's country house he's met with a dying man and a tangle of family secrets that leaves everyone a suspect.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffee house is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified, but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done. Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a fashionable London hotel have been murdered, and a cufflink has been placed in each one's mouth. Could there be a connection with...
Author
Series
New Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"What I intend to say to you will come as a shock ..." With these words, Lady Athelinda Playford -- one of the world's most beloved children's authors -- springs a surprise on the lawyer entrusted with her will. As guests arrive for a party at her Irish mansion, Lady Playford has decided to cut off her two children without a penny . . . and leave her vast fortune to someone else: an invalid who has only weeks to live. Among Lady Playford's visitors...
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Series
New Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 CDs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
Hercule Poirot returns home after an agreeable luncheon to find an angry woman waiting to berate him outside his front door. Her name is Sylvia Rule, and she demands to know why Poirot has accused her of the murder of Barnabas Pandy, a man she has neither heard of nor ever met.
Author
Series
New Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The world's most beloved detective, Hercule Poirot--the legendary star of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and most recently The Monogram Murders and Closed Casket--returns in a stylish, diabolically clever mystery set in the London of 1930. "We Agatha Christie fans read her stories--and particularly her Poirot novels--because the mysteries are invariably equal parts charming and ingenious, dark and quirky and utterly engaging. Sophie...
Author
Series
New Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
While traveling from London to Kingfisher Hill to discretely investigate murder allegations against a wealthy client's wife, Hercule Poirot swaps seats with a nervous train passenger before a second killing is complicated by a series of impossible confessions.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Named a New York Times Best Book to Give
The world's greatest detective, Hercule Poirot—legendary star of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile—returns to solve a delectably twisty mystery in this "masterful and multi-layered puzzle...adding a new dimension to a much-loved series" (NPR).
"Yet again, the diminutive man with the little gray cells delivers
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Series
New Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 5
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
7 CDs (9 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
December 1931. Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool are looking forward to a restful Christmas holiday when they are called upon to investigate the murder of a man in a Norfolk hospital ward.
Author
Series
New Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 5
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 362 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1931, the world's greatest detective, Hercule Poirot, finds his plans for a much-needed, restful Christmas holiday thwarted by a murder investigation and has less than a week to solve the crime and prevent more murders while someone plans to wreak holiday havoc on his life.
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