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Stories: Miss Marple's Final Cases
A collection of Miss Marple mysteries, plus some bonus short stories…
First, the mystery man in the church with a bullet-wound… then, the riddle of a dead man’s buried treasure… the curious conduct oif a caretaker after a fatal riding accident… the corpse and a tape-measure… the girl framed for theft… and the suspect accused of stabbing his wife with a dagger.
Six gripping cases with one thing in common – the astonishing deductive powers of Miss Marple.
Also includes two non-Marple mysteries, ‘The Dressmaker’s Doll’ and ‘In a Glass Darkly’.

Stories: Poirot Investigates
The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings…
First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond… then came the ‘suicide’ that was murder… the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat… a suspicious death in a locked gun-room… a million dollar bond robbery… the curse of a pharoah’s tomb… a jewel robbery by the sea… the abduction of a Prime Minister… the disappearance of a banker… a phone call from a dying man… and, finally, the mystery of the missing will.
What links these fascinating cases? Only the brilliant deductive powers of Hercule Poirot!

Stories: The Floating Admiral
Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterton and nine other writers from the legendary Detection Club collaborate in this fiendishly clever but forgotten crime novel first published 80 years ago.

Stories: Ask a Policeman
This classic crime novel by six different authors is introduced by Martin Edwards, archivist of the Detection Club, and includes a never-before-published Preface by Agatha Christie, ‘Detective Writers in England’, in which she discusses her approach to writing and her fellow writers in the Detection Club.
The contributors to Ask a Policeman are: John Rhode, Helen Simpson, Gladys Mitchell, Anthony Berkeley, Dorothy L. Sayers, Milward Kennedy, with Agatha Christie and Martin Edwards.

Stories: Six Against the Yard
A unique anthology for crime aficionados - six ‘perfect murder’ stories written by the most accomplished crime writers of the 1930s, designed to fox real-life Scotland Yard Superintendent Cornish, who comments on whether or not these crimes could have genuinely been solved.
Is the ‘perfect murder’ possible? Can that crime be committed with such consummate care, with such exacting skill, that it is unsolvable – even to the most astute investigator?

Stories: And Then There Were None - Play
Ten strangers are trapped on an island. One by one, they are accused of murder. One by one, they start to die.

Stories: Appointment With Death - Play
An assorted group of travellers find themselves thrown together on an expedition to the rose red city of Petra. When one of them is found dead, the group find themselves among the suspects.

Stories: Go Back for Murder - Play
After a wrongly convicted woman dies in prison, it is up to her daughter to recreate the scene of the crime and exonerate her memory.


Stories: Love From A Stranger - Play
A whirlwind romance with a handsome and charming stranger who sweeps Cecily Harrington off her feet. Little does she know the ghastly truth about her new beau…
