- : UNEXPECTED GUEST (No:2148)
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- : 9780007299508
- : A young man, broken down in the fog, witnesses a murder he is asked to conceal A full-length novel adapted by Charles Osborne from Agatha Christies acclaimed play. When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog in South Wales and makes his way to an isolated house, he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of her wheelchair-bound husband, gun in her hand. She admits to murder and the unexpected guest offers to help her concoct a cover story.
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- : Poirots Early Cases (No:2147)
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- : 9780007293322
- : Hercule Poirot delighted in telling people that he was probably the best detective in the world. So turning back the clock to trace eighteen of the cases which helped establish his professional reputation was always going to be a fascinating experience. With his career still in its formative years, the panache with which Hercule Poirot could solve even the most puzzling mystery is obvious.
- : 13 -17 Yrs
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- : PROBLEM AT POLLENSABAY (No:2146)
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- : 9780007299560
- : The cover states; "A new collection from the undisputed Queen of Crime." The word "new" is no longer applicable; it came out in 1991, but it certainly contains eight great short stories, and the author's sobriquet still remains applicable for sure!
- : 13 -17 Yrs
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- : Why DidnT They Ask Evans ? (No:2145)
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- : 9780007299782
- : While playing an erratic round of golf, Bobby Jones slices his ball over the edge of a cliff. His ball is lost, but on the rocks below he finds the crumpled body of a dying man. With his final breath the man opens his eyes and says, ‘Why didn’t they ask Evans?’
- : 13 -17 Yrs
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- : Why DidnT They Ask Evans ? (No:2145)
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- : 9780007299782
- : While playing an erratic round of golf, Bobby Jones slices his ball over the edge of a cliff. His ball is lost, but on the rocks below he finds the crumpled body of a dying man. With his final breath the man opens his eyes and says, ‘Why didn’t they ask Evans?’
- : 13 -17 Yrs
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- : ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE (No:2144)
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- : 9780007282500
- : Evidence that clears the name of a boy sentenced for killing his adopted mother arrives too late to save his life – so who did kill her? According to the courts, Jacko Argyle bludgeoned his mother to death with a poker. The sentence was life imprisonment But when Dr Arthur Calgary turns up a year later with the proof that confirms Jacko’s innocence, he is too late – Jacko died behind bars from a bout of pneumonia.
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- : Hercule Poirots Christmas (No:2143)
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- : 9780007282432
- : It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed.
- : 13 -17 Yrs
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- : UNFINISHED PORTRAIT (No:2142)
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- : 9780007357949
- : Bereft of the three people she has held most dear - her mother, her daughter and her husband Dermot, who wants a divorce - Celia is on the verge of suicide. Then one night on an exotic island she meets Larraby, a successful portrait painter, and through a long night of talk reveals how she is afraid to commit herself to a second chance of happiness with another person, yet is not brave enough to face life alone. Can Larraby help Celia come to terms with the past or will they part, her outcome still uncertain?
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- : Sittaford Mystery (No:2141)
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- : 9780007299751
- : A seance in a snowbound Dartmoor house predicts a grisly murder… In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a small table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: ‘Captain Trevelyan… dead… murder.’
- : 13 -17 Yrs
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- : And Then There Were None (No:2140)
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- : 9780007282319
- : In 1939 while Europe teeters on the brink of war, ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast; cut off from the mainland with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs Owen mysteriously absent. They are each accused of murder when one of them dies. They realise they may be harbouring a murderer among them and the tension escalates as the survivors realize that the killer is not only among them but is preparing to strike again and again.
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