Böcker av Agatha Christie

Den lilla engelska byn Sittaford är en idyll på landsbygden. Men nu har en snöstorm isolerat byn från omvärlden. Sex personer har samlats till en seans på herrgården en mörk och kall vinterkväll. Efter en stund får de svar från andra sidan, från döden:– Kapten Trevelyan … mördad …Major Burnaby och de fem andra seansdeltagarna försöker genast ta reda på om det stämmer. När de knackar på hos Trevelyan är det ingen som öppnar …Translation entitled "Mördande seans" © 1986 Agatha Christie Limited. All rights reserved.The Sittaford Mystery © 1931 Agatha Christie Limited. All rights reserved.Agatha Christie (1890-1976) var en brittisk deckarförfattare och världens bäst säljande författare efter Shakespeare med över 4 miljarder böcker sålda på engelska och andra språk. Mest känd är hon för detektiven Hercule Poirot. Tillsammans med Arthur Conan Doyle är hon den som har format deckargenren mest.---Translation entitled "Mördande seans" © 1962 Agatha Christie Limited. All rights reserved.The Sittaford Mystery© 1987 Agatha Christie Limited. All rights reserved.AGATHA CHRISTIE © POIROT © MISS MARPLE © are registered trademarks of Agatha Christie Limited in the UK and/or elsewhere. All rights reserved.

En gammal dam sitter på ett tåg och berättar om sin hemby för en medpassagerare. Det är något som inte står rätt till där, det har varit många dödsfall på sistone och nu är damen på väg till Scotland Yard för att berätta om händelserna. Kanske är en ovanligt listig mördare i farten? När damen stiger av tåget blir hon omedelbart överkörd och dör. Luke Fitzwilliam, en pensionerad gentleman som fram till nu bara lyssnat med ett halvt öra, börjar fundera på om damen talade sanning …Agatha Christie (1890-1976) var en brittisk deckarförfattare och världens bäst säljande författare efter Shakespeare med över 4 miljarder böcker sålda på engelska och andra språk. Mest känd är hon för detektiven Hercule Poirot. Tillsammans med Arthur Conan Doyle är hon den som har format deckargenren mest.-Translation entitled "Mord är lätt" © 1970 Agatha Christie Limited. All rights reserved."Murder is Easy" © 1939 Agatha Christie Limited. All rights reserved.AGATHA CHRISTIE © POIROT © MISS MARPLE © are registered trademarks of Agatha Christie Limited in the UK and/or elsewhere. All rights reserved.

Leonard Vole stands accused of murdering a rich widow. The stakes are high with shocking witness testimony, impassioned outbursts from the dock and a young man's fight to escape the hangman's noose. Generally regarded as one of Christie's most accomplished plays, this suspenseful thriller keeps audiences guessing until the very end."Once more the Christie conjuring trick has come off. Once more we have been led down the garden path. Apart from being a clever puzzle, this is an extremely actable play."THE DAILY TELEGRAPH"The play has all the usual advantages of Counsel in conflict, agonised outbreaks in the dock, and back-answers from the witness-box. To these are added an ingenious appendix; the jury's verdict is only the beginning of a story that has as many twists as a pigtail."THE OBSERVER

Kay Ridgeway has led a charmed life. Blessed with beauty, enormous wealth and a new husband, she embarks on a honeymoon voyage down the Nile. Fatal circumstances await when the idyllic surroundings are shattered by a shockingand brutal murder. Under scrutiny is a multitude of memorable passengers, all with a reason to kill. The tension and claustrophobia builds, as a shocking and audacious conspiracy is laid bare."As slick a vehicle as any theatre company could wish for."THE NEW YORK TIMES

Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects: Philip Blake (the stockbroker) who went to market; Meredith Blake (the amateur herbalist) who stayed at home; Elsa Greer (the three-time divorcee) who had roast beef; Cecilia Williams (the devoted governess) who had none; and Angela Warren (the disfigured sister) who cried 'wee wee wee' all the way home.It is sixteen years later, but Hercule Poirot just can't get that nursery rhyme out of his mind...

Unfortunately, schoolgirl Julia Upjohn knows too much...Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of the unpopular games mistress - shot through the heart from point blank range.The school is thrown into chaos when the 'cat' strikes again. Unfortunately, schoolgirl Julia Upjohn knows too much. In particular, she knows that without Hercule Poirot's help, she will be the next victim...

Tommy and Tuppence, two young people short of money and restless for excitement, embark on a daring business scheme - Young Adventurers Ltd.Their advertisement says they are 'willing to do anything, go anywhere'. But their first assignment, for the sinister Mr Whittington, plunges them into more danger than they ever imagined...

One of Agatha Christie's most loved mysteries, Evil Under the Sun remains one of her best and most delightfully cryptic murder mysteries ever, read by Poirot himself - David Suchet. It was not unusual to find the beautiful bronzed body of the sun-loving Arlena Stuart stretched out on a beach, face down. Only, on this occasion, there was no sun... she had been strangled. Ever since Arlena's arrival at the resort, Hercule Poirot had detected sexual tension in the seaside air. But could this apparent 'crime of passion' have been something more evil and premeditated altogether?

After receiving a letter from beyond the grave, Carla Crale believes her mother, who died in prison, was wrongly convicted of her father's murder. In a passionate attempt to clear her name, she persuades those present on the day of her father's death to return to the scene of the crime and "go back" 16 years to recount their version of events. An unusual take on the traditional murder mystery, the action of the play slips seamlessly from past to present, examining the danger of relying on personal testimony warped by time, prejudice and perception. By studying each suspect's testimony, and the various inconsistencies between them, the drama arrives at a disturbing and terrible truth."Demonstrates the author's uncanny skill. The answer to the riddle is brilliant." THE TIMES

This triple bill of one-act murder mysteries combines: the light-hearted comedy Afternoon at the Seaside, in which a detective attempts to find a priceless emerald necklace and the culprit who stole it; The Rats, a dark and chilling tale in which a pair of adulterous lovers find themselves lured to a flat, trapped like rats and framed for murder; and finally, The Patient, a tense thriller in which a woman has been hospitalised after seemingly falling from her balcony."Three thrilling d¿nouements for the price of one."THE DAILY TELEGRAPH"A trio of playlets devoted, like the rest of her work, to whetting one's appetite for retribution."THE OBSERVER"They are, without exception, the work of an experienced and artful cook, whose interest is to please."THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

Imprisoned for poisoning her husband fifteen years earlier, Caroline Crale finds herself at death's door, and writes a letter expressing her undeniable innocence to her daughter Carla. Carla, aided by Justin Fogg - a former admirer of Caroline - persuades those present on the day of her father's death to return to the scene of the crime. When the witnesses reassemble, Fogg discovers the identity of the true murderer, and Carla discovers her true feelings for Fogg.

An assorted group of travelers are staying at a Jerusalem hotel: Lady Westholme and her companion, a young English doctor and her French colleague, a debonair American and a pugnacious Lancashire man. Another guest, Mrs. Boynton, is a domineering American invalid with four stepchildren whose facade of devotion masks enough hatred to murder her as could the doctor whose affection for Raymond Boynton is being obstructed by the old lady. When Mrs. Boynton is found dead, all are suspects even though she was ill enough to die a natural death. Just when the tension becomes unbearable, the doctor discovers essential evidence about Mrs. Boynton''s devilish plan to possess and torment the children in death as in life.

Clarissa, wife of a diplomat, is adept at spinning tales of adventure but when a murder takes place in her drawing room she finds live drama much harder to cope with. Desperate to dispose of the body before her husband arrives with an important politician, she enlists the help of her guests. Hilarity ensues when they are interrupted by the arrival of wry detective, Inspector Lord.A conscious parody of the detective thriller, Christie delivers a unique blend of suspense and humour. There is tension and laughter in equal parts in an intricate plot of murder, police, drug addicts, invisible ink, hidden doorways and secret drawers.

The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided. Nevertheless, in view of the world-wide notoriety which attended it, I have been asked, both by my friend Poirot and the family themselves, to write an account of the whole story. This, we trust, will effectually silence the sensational rumours which still persist. I will therefore briefly set down the circumstances which led to my being connected with the affair. I had been invalided home from the Front; and, after spending some months in a rather depressing Convale-scent Home, was given a month's sick leave. Having no near relations or friends, I was trying to make up my mind what to do, when I ran across John Cavendish. I had seen very little of him for some years. Indeed, I had never known him particularly well. He was a good fifteen years my senior, for one thing, though he hardly looked his forty-five years. As a boy, though, I had often stayed at Styles, his mother's place in Essex.

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided. Nevertheless, in view of the world-wide notoriety which attended it, I have been asked, both by my friend Poirot and the family themselves, to write an account of the whole story. This, we trust, will effectually silence the sensational rumours which still persist. I will therefore briefly set down the circumstances which led to my being connected with the affair. I had been invalided home from the Front; and, after spending some months in a rather depressing Convale-scent Home, was given a month's sick leave. Having no near relations or friends, I was trying to make up my mind what to do, when I ran across John Cavendish. I had seen very little of him for some years. Indeed, I had never known him particularly well. He was a good fifteen years my senior, for one thing, though he hardly looked his forty-five years. As a boy, though, I had often stayed at Styles, his mother's place in Essex.

In the tradition of the bestselling "Black Coffee", author Charles Osborne adapts this Christie play into an intriguing novel set in South Wales. A stranded motorist stumbles upon a man slumped over dead in a wheelchair. His wife stands nearby with a smoking gun in her hand. Family secrets and chilling motives lie beneath the surface. Martin's Press.

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.