Secondhand Crime Fiction & Thriller Bargain Book Box SP2882

Secondhand Crime Fiction & Thriller Bargain Book Box SP2882

Fifteen Agatha Christie titles all in the matching Christie Collection edition — Poirot, Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence, and standalones in a beautiful uniform set. An ideal foundation for a serious Christie library.

1. A Murder is Announced — Agatha Christie — Miss Marple's finest hour: a murder is announced in the local newspaper with time and location, and yet it still happens — one of the great puzzle plots in detective fiction.
2. The Sittaford Mystery — Agatha Christie — A séance in a snowbound house produces the message that a man has been murdered — and he has. One of Christie's most atmospheric standalones.
3. N or M? — Agatha Christie — Tommy and Tuppence come out of wartime retirement to hunt a Nazi spy — one of Christie's most overtly political and most gripping thrillers.
4. The Seven Dials Mystery — Agatha Christie — A young man dies of an overdose at a country house party and a secret society may or may not be responsible — a thriller with a Wodehousian lightness of touch.
5. Peril at End House — Agatha Christie — Poirot on the Cornish coast, convinced someone is trying to kill his charming new acquaintance — but who the real target is turns out to be something else entirely.
6. Evil Under the Sun — Agatha Christie — A beautiful actress strangled on a Devon beach with every guest having an alibi — Poirot at his most mechanically brilliant.
7. By the Pricking of My Thumbs — Agatha Christie — Tommy and Tuppence investigate a sinister picture and a missing woman — darker in tone than the early Beresford books, with genuinely unsettling atmosphere.
8. The Man in the Brown Suit — Agatha Christie — A young woman witnesses a suspicious tube station death and pursues the truth to South Africa — one of Christie's most adventurous early standalones.
9. And Then There Were None — Agatha Christie — Ten strangers on an island, each accused of an unpunished crime, dying one by one — the best-selling mystery novel of all time, and still the most terrifying.
10. Elephants Can Remember — Agatha Christie — Poirot and Ariadne Oliver investigate a double death from the past that still casts shadows — one of the late Poirot novels, elegiac in tone.
11. Cards on the Table — Agatha Christie — Four suspected murderers, four detectives, one death during a bridge game — the closed-circle mystery at its most geometric.
12. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side — Agatha Christie — Miss Marple at home when a film star's entourage brings Hollywood glamour and murder to St Mary Mead — one of the best late Marples.
13. Five Little Pigs — Agatha Christie — Poirot reconstructs a sixteen-year-old murder through the memories of five witnesses — structurally one of Christie's most elegant novels.
14. Death Comes as the End — Agatha Christie — Christie's only historical mystery, set in ancient Egypt, with a household destroyed from within by jealousy — an unexpected masterpiece.
15. The Mysterious Affair at Styles — Agatha Christie — The novel that introduced Hercule Poirot to the world in 1920 — the country house murder that set the template for the Golden Age detective novel.