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Stories: The Case of the Missing Will
An intelligent young woman must “prove her wits” to gain her inheritance from her uncle.
Stories: How Does Your Garden Grow?
A woman is poisoned after giving Poirot an empty packet of seeds. When Poirot discovers she had sent him a letter requesting his help, he immediately sets to work.
Stories: The Mystery of the Spanish Chest
The morning after a party, a man’s body is found stabbed and hidden in a Spanish chest. From The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories.
Stories: The Under Dog
When Poirot arrives at a dinner party, he discovers that his host, Robert Astwell, is universally disliked. When Astwell is discovered murdered there are no shortage of suspects. From The Under Dog and Other Stories and The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding.
Stories: The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
A million dollars of bonds disappear from under a young man’s nose and now he’s being held accountable. From Poirot Investigates.
Stories: The Red House
Tommy and Tuppence investigate a poltergeist which is plaguing a guesthouse run by mother and daughter. From Partners in Crime.
Stories: The Mousetrap
For 70 years, Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap has kept millions of people, from every corner of the globe, on the edge of their seats, and it continues to be a sell-out hit of London theatre. This brand new edition of the world's longest-running play will contain a new introduction by Sophie Hannah, bestselling author of the authorised Agatha Christie Poirot continuation novels, as well as the official play script and a host of exclusive material from the show's archive.
The scene is set when a group of people gathered in a country house cut off by the snow discover, to their horror, that there is a murderer in their midst. Who can it be? One by one the suspicious characters reveal their sordid pasts until at the last, nerve-shredding moment the identity and the motive are finally revealed.
Stories: Spider's Web
Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. ‘Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?’ she muses. Clarissa has her chance to find out when she discovers a body in the drawing-room of her house in Kent.
Stories: Come, Tell Me How You Live
A non-fiction account of Agatha Christie's journeys with her archaeologist husband, Max Mallowan, giving an intimate insight into their travels together as well as many of the inspirations which fed into her novels and plays.
