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A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.After being fired from his uncle’s firm for his playboy antics, George Rowland decides to leave London on a whim. Waiting for his train to depart from Waterloo, a beautiful young girl dashes in and begs him to hide her. Wrapped up in the excitement he agrees to follow a suspicious looking man and guard a p…
‘A stunning read from a superb storyteller.’ Clare MackintoshFrom the #1 ebook and Sunday Times bestseller, comes the tale of a young woman in search of her past, and the mother who will do anything to keep it hidden…What if you were the worst crime your mother ever committed?Dahlia Waller’s childhood memories consist of stuffy cars, seedy motels, and a rootless existence traveling the country wit…
Before the Special Forces hero has even unpacked his bags from twelve years of active duty, he's embroiled in murder—corpses bearing the brutal trademark he's seen only once before—on the worst night of his life.The last time Detective Anna Pallino saw Dante Renaldi, they were in love. Now, he's part of the connection to a string of fresh homicides and a horrible assault Anna only survived thanks …
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Throwing on an almost convincing French accent, Tommy is determined to be the great Hanaud to his and Tuppence’s latest, rather lovely client. Miss Hargreaves has recently received a box of chocolates from nobody knows who, and due to her dislike of the treat was the only one to not fall foul of the arseni…
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Years ago, a murder was committed on the night of a costume party thrown by Sir Richard Haydon, a man who was a rival of his cousin Eliot for the affections of the lovely Diana Ashley. Sir Richard’s estate contained the grove of Astarte, which held a mysterious stone summer house. The summer house was rumo…
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings are on holiday at the opulent Grand Metropolitan Hotel in Brighton, where they meet the wife of a wealthy stockbroker. As they discuss the jewels worn by Mrs Opalsen, the great detective relates his experiences in cases which have concerned some of the best-known jewels …
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Just as the end of the First World War is drawing to an end, the prime minister is kidnapped and it is down to Hercule Poirot to locate him and avert an international crisis before a crucial conference convenes.
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Hercule Poirot is asked by Prince Paul of Maurania to solve the murder of Henry Reedburn, which has greatly distressed the Prince’s fiancée, the famous dancer Valerie Saintclair. The only other witnesses seem to be a family of four who were playing bridge near an open window when she staggered in, crying ‘…
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Mrs Lancaster doesn’t believe in ghosts. She moves her family into a house that has been derelict for years, unconcerned about the story of the young boy who lived there and starved to death. But her own young son is fascinated by his new friend that lives in the attic all alone…
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Poirot tells Hastings about the time he was gifted fourteen thousand shares for a mine in Burma by the Chinese family who owned it. On a trip to London a member of the mine owners family has brought its papers to do a deal an Englishman. But when the man and the papers go missing, Poirot is called for…
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.A medium agrees to perform one last seance before retiring. But even she could not have anticipated the chain of events that it brings…
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.A rich woman’s decline into poverty is seemingly arrested when she takes the opportunity to live at the late Lord Listerdale’s residence for next to nothing. Her family believe it is too good to be true – what’s the catch?
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Holidaying in the countryside and enjoying a quiet breakfast Hastings, Inspector Japp and Poirot are disturbed by a local police officer who needs their help to solve a case. A man has been found shot through the head in a locked room with suicide well and truly ruled out how did he die?
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.An unlikely couple find themselves drawn together by their mutual fascination for a sinister little stone idol high on a shelf in the British Museum…
A compulsive and topical psychological thriller and a contemporary story of obsession, in which a happily married, educated, middle-class woman is driven to snatch a stranger’s baby from its pram.All she wanted was a baby. Was that so much to ask? A baby to nourish in her body, to give birth with pain and pleasure, to adore. A baby to suckle and care for, to clean and cuddle and comfort. A baby to…