When Anthony Cade is asked by his friend, Jimmy McGrath, to deliver a manuscript and a bunch of letters to a woman, little does he know that he will be involved in a high level political intrigue involving murder, false identities, diplomatic intrigue and theft of precious jewellery… This thrilling novel figures the debut of Superintendent Battle and the plot was suggested to Christie by none other than the famous P. G. Wodehouse! Excerpt: "Castle's Select Tour, represented by seven depressed-looking females and three perspiring males, looked on with considerable interest. Evidently their...

e-artnow present this unique edition of the greatest Hercule Poirot's detective mysteries Content: • The Mysterious Affair at Styles • The Murder on the Links • The Affair at the Victory Ball • Mrs Opalsen's Pearls (The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan) • The Adventure of the Clapham Cook • The Cornish Mystery • The Double Clue • The Lost Mine • The Kidnapping of Johnnie Waverly • The King of Clubs • The Lemesurier Inheritance • The Mystery of the Plymouth Express • The Chocolate Box • The Case of the Veiled Lady • The Submarine Plans • The Market Basing...

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is is the masterpiece of detective crime fiction and one of the most influential crime novel ever written. Hercule Poirot retires to a village near the home of a friend, Roger Ackroyd, to pursue a project to perfect vegetable marrows. Soon after, Ackroyd is murdered and Poirot must come out of retirement to solve the case.

Nadina, a dancer in Paris, receives a visit from Count Sergius Paulovitch. Both are in the service of "the Colonel", an international agent provocateur and criminal. "The Colonel" is retiring, leaving his agents high and dry. Nadina has a plan to blackmail the Colonel. Anne Beddingfeld is an orphan after the sudden death of her archaeologist father. Longing for adventure, she jumps at the chance live in London. Returning from an unsuccessful job interview, Anne is at Hyde Park Corner tube station when a man falls onto the live track, dying instantly. A young man in a brown suit is identified...