En pleno desierto iraqui, en un campamento arqueologico situado junto al yacimiento de TellYarimjah, Mrs.Leidner da signos de una creciente mania persecutoria que le pro-voca aterradoras alucinaciones. Aunque nadie da mayorimportancia a sus temores, ya que cree que pretenden asesinarla, su marido -el director de la excavacion- contrata auna experta enfermera para que cuide de ella. El Dr. Leidner y su equipo solo compren-den la gravedad del asunto cuandola mujer aparece muerta en su lecho con una horrible herida en la cabeza. En este nuevo caso de Agatha Christie, eldetective Hercules Poirot...
En pleno desierto iraqui, en un campamento arqueologico situado junto al yacimiento de TellYarimjah, Mrs.Leidner da signos de una creciente mania pers...
Hiring themselves out as "young adventurers willing to do anything" is a smart move for Tommy and Tuppence. All Tuppence has to do is take an all-expenses-paid trip to Paris and pose as someone named Jane Finn. But with the job comes a threat to her life, and the disappearance of her mysterious employer. Now Tuppence's newest job is playing detective-because if there's a Jane Finn that really exists, she's got a secret that's putting both their lives in danger.
Hiring themselves out as "young adventurers willing to do anything" is a smart move for Tommy and Tuppence. All Tuppence has to do is take an all-expe...
2017 Reprint of 1922 Edition. "The Secret Adversary" is the second published detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie, first published in January 1922 in the U.S. by Dodd, Mead and Company. The book introduces the characters of Tommy and Tuppence who feature in three other Christie novels and one collection of short stories; the five Tommy and Tuppence books span Agatha Christie's writing career. The Great War is over, and jobs are scarce. Tommy Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley meet and agree to start their own business as The Young Adventurers. They are hired for a job that...
2017 Reprint of 1922 Edition. "The Secret Adversary" is the second published detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie, first published in January...
THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIME--NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH AND PRODUCED BY RIDLEY SCOTT
"The murderer is with us--on the train now . . ."
Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer.
Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule...
THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIME--NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH AND PRODUCED BY RIDLEY SC...
At the request of his friend Ariadne (an eccentric mystery lover based on Christie herself), Hercule arrives at a sprawling estate to partake in a weekend game of mock murder. But when the victim appears far too dead, the game stops and the detective work begins.
At the request of his friend Ariadne (an eccentric mystery lover based on Christie herself), Hercule arrives at a sprawling estate to partake in a wee...
