Secondhand Crime Fiction & Thriller Bargain Book Box SP2883

Secondhand Crime Fiction & Thriller Bargain Book Box SP2883

Fifteen more Agatha Christie titles in the distinctive Christie Collection edition — Poirot, Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence, and standalone thrillers from across the full span of her career. A beautifully uniform set for the dedicated Christie reader.

1. Towards Zero — Agatha Christie — The murder doesn't happen until halfway through as Christie assembles her cast and lets the tension build — a masterclass in misdirection featuring Superintendent Battle.
2. Three-Act Tragedy — Agatha Christie — A clergyman dies at a cocktail party with nothing but harmless drinks on the table — Poirot and Mr Satterthwaite piece together a crime of almost impossible elegance.
3. Dead Man's Folly — Agatha Christie — A fête at a Devon house, a murder-mystery game, and a real body — Poirot is invited by Ariadne Oliver, who senses something is wrong, and finds she was right.
4. Death on the Nile — Agatha Christie — The beautiful Linnet Ridgeway shot on a Nile cruise surrounded by people who all had reason to want her dead — one of Poirot's most famous cases and one of Christie's finest plots.
5. Agatha Christie's Poirot: Book One — A compilation of early Poirot stories in the Christie Collection format — an ideal introduction to the detective in his original short-story form.
6. The Listerdale Mystery — Agatha Christie — A collection of short stories and lighter entertainments, including the title puzzle of a mysteriously accommodating landlord — Christie at her most playful.
7. Poirot's Early Cases — Agatha Christie — Eighteen Poirot short stories from the beginning of his career, sharp and funny and endlessly inventive in their plotting.
8. Destination Unknown — Agatha Christie — A young woman assumes a dead woman's identity to infiltrate a secret community of missing scientists — one of Christie's most Cold War-inflected novels.
9. Postern of Fate — Agatha Christie — Tommy and Tuppence's last case, in which a child's old book triggers an investigation into a wartime killing — gentle and nostalgic in tone.
10. They Came to Baghdad — Agatha Christie — A young woman in Baghdad stumbles into an international conspiracy — Christie's most exotic thriller setting, drawn from her own archaeological experience.
11. A Caribbean Mystery — Agatha Christie — Miss Marple on holiday in the West Indies, where a garrulous old colonel is murdered before he can show her a photograph — sun, rum, and poison.
12. Endless Night — Agatha Christie — Perhaps Christie's darkest novel: a young drifter, a wealthy heiress, a dream house, and an ending that remains genuinely shocking.
13. The Secret Adversary — Agatha Christie — The first Tommy and Tuppence novel, in which two young adventurers set up as "The Young Adventurers Ltd" and are immediately plunged into international intrigue.
14. Murder is Easy — Agatha Christie — A retired policeman hears a woman say people are being quietly murdered in a village — and then she's dead. Luke Fitzwilliam investigates a case that should be impossible.
15. Murder in Mesopotamia — Agatha Christie — Poirot at an archaeological dig in Iraq, where an American woman is killed in a seemingly impossible locked-room scenario — one of the most atmospherically distinctive Poirot novels.