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2022.
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"Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was “just” an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn’t? Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, as Lucy Worsley says, "She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern." She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. So why—despite all the evidence...
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2008
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Young sculptor Mark Easterbrook happens upon a dying priest, who presses a bloody list of names into his hand. After the police rashly target Mark as the prime suspect in the cleric's killing, he sets off on a quest to prove his innocence. The trial ultimately leads to the Pale Horse -- a former inn now occupied by three mysterious old women who purport to practice black magic.
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A beautiful heiress has been found dead on a train. A playboy has been stabbed through the heart during a costume ball. An elderly woman suspects that she is being slowly poisoned to death. A prince fears for his reputation when his fiancée is embroiled in another man's murder. A forgotten recluse makes headlines after he is shot in the head. Who but Agatha Christie could concoct such canny crimes? Who but Belgian detective Hercule Poirot could possibly...
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1985.
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"Over the course of her long, prolific career, Agatha Christie gave the world a wealth of ingenious whodunits and page-turning locked-room mysteries featuring Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, and a host of other unforgettable characters. She also gave us Come, Tell Me How You Live, a charming, fascinating, and wonderfully witty nonfiction account of her days on an archaeological dig in Syria with her husband, renowned archeologist Max Mallowan. Something...
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"December 1926: England unleashes the largest manhunt in its history. The object of the search is not an escaped convict or a war criminal, but the missing wife of a WWI hero, up-and-coming mystery author Agatha Christie. When her car is found wrecked, empty, and abandoned near a natural spring, the country is in a frenzy. Eleven days later, Agatha reappears, claiming amnesia. She provides no answers for her disappearance. That is...until she writes...
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[2017]
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Acclaimed mystery novelist Agatha Christie has written some of the world's most loved crime stories, including the tales of Hercule Poirot, Miss Jane Marple, and more. These collector's items will introduce new viewers to the Agatha Christie mysteries by featuring some of the best television adaptations.
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"Nina de Gramont's The Christie Affair is a beguiling novel of star-crossed lovers, heartbreak, revenge, and murder-and a brilliant re-imagination of one of the most talked-about unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century. Every story has its secrets. Every mystery has its motives. "A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman. It's a particular feeling, the urge to murder. It takes over your body so completely, it's like a divine...
Pub. Date
c2002
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The secret adversary. Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley meet again by chance in London after World War I. Looking for work and longing for a bit of excitement, they stumble into the middle of the search for a secret document spirited off the sinking Lusitania. Tommy and Tuppence find adventure galore and discover how much they mean to each other.
The affair of the pink pearl. Tommy and Tuppence, brand new owners of a detective agency, are eager...
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[2017]
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In the 1930s, ten strangers are invited to an island by a mysterious host and begin to be killed one by one; fourteen years after her sister was executed for murdering her husband, a woman asks Hercule Poirot to find the truth; when a woman's harassment of a newly married couple turns deadly, Hercule Poirot attempts to solve the mystery.
Pub. Date
c2001
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Sleeping murder: Miss Marple comes to the rescue when a young woman begins seeing the ghost of her murdered stepmother and she may soon become the next victim.
4:50 from Paddington: Two trains briefly draw alongside each other as they race past a country house and, to her horror, Miss Marple's friend Mrs. McGillicuddy witnesses a man in a passing train car strangling a mystery woman.
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Pub. Date
c2001
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Two episodes from the Miss Marple television series.
A Caribbean mystery: Miss Marple takes a vacation to the Caribbean and encounters murder and mystery.
The mirror cracked from side to side: Miss Marple tackles a homicide on the set of an American extravaganza being filmed in England.
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Belgian detective Hercule Poirot has just finished a case in Istanbul and is returning home to London on board the luxurious Orient Express. The thrill of riding the famous train ends abruptly when a wealthy man is discovered dead.
17) An autobiography
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Dame Agatha Christie sheds light on her secretive life and tells of her early years, her marriages and rise to success.
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2021.
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The housekeeper for archaeologist Max Mallowan and his famous wife, Agatha Christie, former Army nurse Phyllida Bright is faced with murder and mayhem during a weekend party and assembles the household staff to find the killer among the Mallowan's guests.
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[2022]
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"Written by mortician and forensic expert Carla Valentine, The Science of Murder explores the real-life cases that inspired Agatha Christie and shows how the great mystery writer may have kept up to date with the latest developments in forensic science, from ballistics to blood-splatter analysis. Valentine examines the use of fingerprints, firearms, handwriting, impressions, and toxicology in Christie's novels, before finally revealing the role the...
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