<div>In their very first adventure, Tommy and Tuppence uncover an audacious plot to destroy Great Britain In postwar London, childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Prudence &ldquo;Tuppence&rdquo; Cowley are having a grand old time&mdash;except for the fact that they can barely afford a pot of tea between them. With no jobs to be had and no rich relations to bankroll them, they decide to form a joint venture: Young Adventurers, Ltd. They&rsquo;re willing to go anywhere and do anything so long as the pay as right. Maybe, suggests Tuppence, a clergyman&rsquo;s daughter, they&rsquo;ll even get to steal a diamond necklace. Before Tommy can place their first advertisement, Tuppence gets a job offer. Mr. Whittington wants to send her to Paris for three months, all expenses paid. The catch is that she has to pretend to be someone else&mdash;an American&mdash;and she can&rsquo;t talk to anyone she knows while she&rsquo;s there. It sounds too good to be true, and when Tuppence tries to protect herself with a pseudonym&mdash;&ldquo;Jane Finn,&rdquo; an odd name that Tommy recently overheard&mdash;Whittington&rsquo;s reaction is equal parts anger and admiration. Accusing Tuppence of blackmail, he gives her fifty pounds and disappears. Of course, the Young Adventurers refuse to leave it at that. Setting out to find the mysterious Jane Finn, they stumble into a deadly conspiracy that stretches all the way back to the sinking of the Lusitania and now threatens to undo everything England won in the Great War. By transforming two of London&rsquo;s bright young things into fearless detectives, Agatha Christie&rsquo;s second novel revolutionized the mystery genre. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. </div>

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The Secret Adversary

<div>The debut of Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Agatha Christie and her remarkable Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot Invalided home from the Western Front, Arthur Hastings arrives at Styles Court anticipating a relaxing sojourn in the English countryside. It turns out to be anything but. Late one night, Hastings is summoned to the locked bedroom door of Emily Inglethorp, mistress of the manor. A terrible commotion is happening inside, and by the time her family forces the door open it is too late&mdash;Emily is in the final, violent throes of strychnine poisoning and nothing can save her. As fate would have it, Belgium&rsquo;s most celebrated detective, a refugee from the war, resides in the neighboring village. Hercule Poirot may look, in the words of Hastings, like a &ldquo;quaint dandyfied little man,&rdquo; but he possesses one of the finest minds in Europe and an extraordinary flair for solving the most baffling of cases. Half a dozen people&mdash;including Alfred, Emily&rsquo;s much younger second husband; her slacker stepsons, John and Lawrence; and Mary, her beautiful but bored daughter-in-law&mdash;had the means and the motive to poison Emily. While Hastings and the rest of Styles Court rush to judgment, Poirot painstakingly sifts through the clues and considers each of the suspects in turn. The answer at which he arrives will shock them all. Agatha Christie wrote The Mysterious Affair at Styles because her sister wagered that she could not plot a mystery. Not only did Christie win that bet, she created one of the greatest detectives in all of literature and established herself as the undisputed Queen of Crime. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.</div>

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

<div>Six &ldquo;perfect murders&rdquo; by Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, and other Golden Age Mystery authors of the Detection Club&mdash;plus an essay by Agatha Christie. Founded in England in the 1930s, the Detection Club brought together an impressive array of Golden Age Mystery authors. Their projects included The Floating Admiral, a whodunit in which twelve different writers contributed individual chapters, as well as Ask a Policeman, another collaboration in which the mystery writers swapped detectives to solve a murder. In Six Against the Yard, a half dozen mystery masters&mdash;Margery Allingham, Father Ronald Knox, Anthony Berkeley, Russell Thorndike, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Freeman Wills Crofts&mdash;each create a perfect crime, a seemingly unsolvable mystery. The stories are then analyzed by Ex-Superintendent Cornish, C.I.D., a real-life retired police detective, to see if they would indeed stump Scotland Yard. This edition also features an afterword by inaugural Detection Club member Agatha Christie on a true unsolved case of arsenic poisoning in Britain in 1929. </div>

Six Against the Yard

<div>It&rsquo;s &ldquo;great fun&rdquo; when a baker&rsquo;s dozen of Golden Age authors collaborate on a whodunit&mdash;including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and G. K. Chesterton (The Guardian). Originally published in 1931, The Floating Admiral is a classic literary collaboration by members of the Detection Club, in which each chapter is written by a different mystery author, with G. K. Chesterton adding a prologue after the novel was completed. Each writer was tasked with building on what the previous writer created, without ignoring or avoiding whatever plot points had come before. Although Anthony Berkeley wrote the definitive conclusion to the mystery in his final chapter, the writers all provided their own individual solutions, each in a sealed envelope, which appear in the appendix. In the words of Dorothy L. Sayers in her introduction, the spirit of the project was that of a &ldquo;detection game,&rdquo; for the amusement of the authors&mdash;and their readers. In the sleepy English seaside village of Whynmouth, an old sailor discovers a corpse floating serenely in a rowboat owned by the local vicar. The victim has been stabbed in the chest. It falls to Inspector Rudge to solve this most baffling mystery, in which not only the identity of the killer but the identity of the victim is called into question. The Floating Admiral includes contributions by Canon Victor L. Whitechurch, G. D. H. and Margaret Cole, Henry Wade, Agatha Christie, John Rhode, Milward Kennedy, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald A. Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts, Edgar Jepson, Clemence Dane, and Anthony Berkeley. &ldquo;I was . . . hugely entertained by the virtuoso displays of mental gymnastics, which kept me guessing all the way.&rdquo; &mdash;The Guardian </div>

The Floating Admiral

<div>With &ldquo;a touch of genius,&rdquo; this round-robin mystery follow-up to The Floating Admiral features famous detectives including Lord Peter Wimsey (The Times Literary Supplement). Following the success of The Floating Admiral, in which certain members of the Detection Club&mdash;including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and G. K. Chesterton&mdash;collaborated on a whodunit, six writers pooled their talents to create another coauthored mystery. This time the premise had an added twist: authors would swap their detective characters, allowing for some extremely entertaining parodies of one another&rsquo;s sleuths. When a ruthless British newspaper tycoon is shot dead in his home, the high-level suspects include the assistant commissioner of Scotland Yard, casting doubt on the impartiality of a formal police investigation. As a solution, the home secretary brings in four brilliant detectives to solve the murder: Mrs. Bradley, Sir John Saumarez, Lord Peter Wimsey, and Roger Sheringham. Featuring a preface by inaugural Detection Club member Agatha Christie, this playful tour de force gathers together half a dozen Golden Age Mystery masters: John Rhode, Helen Simpson, Gladys Mitchell, Anthony Berkeley, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Milward Kennedy. </div>

Ask a Policeman

<div>Hercule Poirot&rsquo;s second appearance is &ldquo;a remarkably good detective story&rdquo; as the Belgian sleuth must determine who left a corpse on a golf course (The New York Times Book Review). After introducing Hercule Poirot in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Christie brought him back three years later in 1923 for this &ldquo;ingenious&rdquo; murder mystery set in France (The New York Times Book Review). Instead of a hole in one, Poirot finds one in a hole&mdash;a body in a shallow grave next to a golf course. The man who summoned him from London to Merlinville-sur-Mer is the man who now lies in the ground, and the great Belgian detective, along with his companion, Capt. Arthur Hastings, intends to find out who put him there. Fatally stabbed in the back with a letter opener, millionaire Paul Renauld leaves behind a widow who claims two masked men tied her up and abducted her husband. Monsieur Giraud of the S&ucirc;ret&eacute; believes he has the investigation well in hand and doesn&rsquo;t need assistance from Poirot. But as the clues gets progressively more complex, it will be a link to a similar cold case that helps Poirot catch the backstabber. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. </div>

The Murder on the Links

<div>Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and his assistant, Captain Hastings, solve perplexing cases of murder and deceit in this short mystery collection. One of Agatha Christie&rsquo;s most beloved sleuths, Hercule Poirot is the immortal protagonist of such classic mystery novels as Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile. In Poirot Investigates, the first short story collection to feature the famous detective, he takes on the case of a Hollywood film star and her highly coveted diamond, the suspicious suicide of a man who&rsquo;s worth more dead than alive, the curse of a pharaoh&rsquo;s tomb, the abduction of a Prime Minister, and much more.</div>

Poirot Investigates

<div>On a ship from London to South Africa, a young woman gets wrapped up in a deadly scheme, in this classic novel by the master of mystery.New to London, Anne Beddingfeld is hungry for adventure, when she witnesses a shocking accident. At the Hyde Park tube station, a man named L. B. Carton falls onto the tracks, dying instantly. An address for Mill House is found on Carton&rsquo;s person, but only Anne notices the slip of paper he dropped&mdash;with the name of a ship and an inscrutable series of numbers. When a woman is found strangled to death at Mill House and the only suspect is an unknown man in a brown suit, Anne becomes obsessed with the case. Booking passage on the ship from the mysterious piece of paper, she soon finds herself bound for South Africa in the company of killers and thieves, as she attempts to unravel a scheme of murder, betrayal, and stolen diamonds.</div>

The Man in the Brown Suit

<div>International intrigue leads to murder at an English manor house in this classic mystery introducing the detection skills of Superintendent Battle.Never do favors&mdash;that&rsquo;s the lesson it would&rsquo;ve behooved Anthony Cade to learn before getting himself wrapped up in a case of conspiracy and murder. Politician George Lomax has persuaded Lord Caterham to host a weekend party at Chimneys, his country estate. Lomax hopes to cement plans to reinstate the monarchy in Herzegovina. But when the prince of Herzegovina turns up dead, Cade has a lot of explaining to do. After all, his footprints were found on the grounds . . . though not inside the house. As one criminal conspiracy leads to another, both Scotland Yard and the French S&ucirc;ret&eacute; are on the scene to set things right. Soon, thanks to the detective work of Superintendent Battle, everyone&rsquo;s secrets&mdash;and the secret of Chimneys itself&mdash;will be on display.</div>

The Secret of Chimneys

<div>This collection of classic short mysteries by the author of The Mousetrap will have you asking, &ldquo;Whodunit, howdunit, and whydunit?&rdquo;At the same time every day, Jack&rsquo;s morning golf routine is interrupted by the sound of a woman calling for help. Though the cry is clearly coming from a nearby cottage, the lady who lives there has no distress to report&mdash;until she starts having nightmares about a mysterious woman and a blue Chinese vase. Could the cottage be haunted? Or is Jack losing his mind? His attempts to find out will lead him down a dangerous path. A taut psychological thriller, &ldquo;The Mystery of the Blue Jar&rdquo; is quintessential Agatha Christie. This volume presents that story alongside other short works by the British master of mystery and suspense.</div>

The Mystery of the Blue Jar and The Witness for the Prosecution

<div>Voted the best crime novel ever written by the Crime Writers&rsquo; Association: &ldquo;Breathless reading from first to the unexpected last.&rdquo; &mdash;The Observer The eminent Belgian detective Hercule Poirot has lost a friend to an unfortunate stabbing incident, and now, despite his retirement in a previously peaceful English village, he must return to work and find out who killed Roger Ackroyd&mdash;and how his demise may be connected to the dark secrets and tragic events surrounding Ackroyd&rsquo;s late fianc&eacute;e, who died only the day before . . . From the legendary novelist whose mysteries have sold more than two billion copies, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd remains one of Agatha Christie&rsquo;s most popular works, renowned for its twist ending.</div>

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

<div>Beloved private eye Hercule Poirot takes on an international crime cabal in this novel by the author who &ldquo;created the modern murder mystery&rdquo; (The New Yorker). At home in London, detective Hercule Poirot is visited by a stranger whose repeated, incoherent ramblings and scribblings of the number four are most alarming&mdash;especially when the uninvited guest collapses to the floor. Grasping at the meaning behind his visitor&rsquo;s words, Poirot soon puts his infamous &ldquo;little grey cells&rdquo; to work to track down four criminal masterminds intent on global domination. Reunited with his dear friend Captain Hastings, Poirot embarks on a journey that takes him from England to France and beyond. Suddenly submerged in a world of international espionage in the name of uncovering the dark truth about the Big Four, Poirot risks not just his self-proclaimed reputation as &ldquo;the great mind in Europe,&rdquo; but his life. &ldquo;It is always a delight to meet Hercule Poirot again. He is one of the few detectives with real charm.&rdquo; &mdash;Dorothy L. Sayers, author of the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries &ldquo;The acknowledged queen of detective fiction.&rdquo; &mdash;The Observer</div>

The Big Four

<div>In this classic mystery by the Queen of Crime, Hercule Poirot boards a night train bound for the French Riviera . . . and murder. American heiress Ruth Kettering needs to get away from it all. She&rsquo;s left her unhappy marriage behind her and booked a ticket on the luxurious Blue Train, heading to the French Riviera where her lover is waiting. But when the train arrives in Nice, Ruth is found dead in her cabin, and her priceless ruby is missing. Although the evidence points to Ruth&rsquo;s estranged husband as the prime suspect, Hercule Poirot is not so sure. Now, to make sense of this perplexing puzzle, there&rsquo;s only one thing the great Belgian detective can do: recreate the murder. Originally published in 1928.</div>

The Mystery of the Blue Train

<div>In this classic short story, Miss Marple attempts to solve the unexplainable murder of a baronet who was stabbed, with no one around him in sight . . . During the first meeting of the Tuesday Night Club at Miss Marple&rsquo;s home, her guests present real tales of mystery, and the wise hostess attempts to solve them from the comfort of her armchair. Next up with a spooky story is local clergyman Dr. Pender . . . Years ago, Pender attended a costume party at the estate of his college friend, Sir Richard Haydon. Haydon believed that sacred rites to ancient goddesses were once performed on his grounds. Later, socialite Diana Ashley surprised the guests by dressing as a priestess to Astarte. But even more shocking was Haydon&rsquo;s sudden fall. He was stabbed in the heart with no one close enough to attack him, and no weapon to be found. Although decades have passed since the bizarre murder, Miss Marple and her club may be able to deliver justice for Sir Haydon . . . Originally published in the United States in Detective StoryMagazine in 1928, &ldquo;The Idol House of Astarte&rdquo; appeared in Christie&rsquo;s short story collection, The Thirteen Problems, in 1932.</div>

The Idol House of Astarte

<div>In this classic short story, Miss Marple steps in to investigate when her niece is accused of murdering her violent husband. During the first meeting of the Tuesday Night Club at Miss Jane Marple&rsquo;s home, her guests present real tales of mystery. Miss Marple is the first to share a story . . . Fifteen years ago, Miss Marple&rsquo;s niece, Mabel Denman, was married to an abusive and hot-tempered man&mdash;until he suddenly died. Was it the mushrooms he ate? Or the arsenic Mabel had recently purchased? While the village gossips were ready to declare Mabel guilty, Miss Marple was determined to clear her niece&rsquo;s name and set everything straight . . . Originally published in the United States in Detective StoryMagazine in 1928, &ldquo;The Thumb Mark of St. Peter&rdquo; appeared in Christie&rsquo;s short story collection, The Thirteen Problems, in 1932. </div>

The Thumb Mark of St. Peter

<div>From the acclaimed author of Murder on the Orient Express, eight short mystery stories featuring Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings are on a bus to North Devon to help a friend when they encounter a case of stolen miniatures. Miss Marple investigates the murder of a woman who made changes to her will just a few days before her death. A gentleman is questioned about a killing that has yet to occur. A strange doll in a London dress shop appears to be watching everyone. A dying man found on the steps of a country church offers a clue to a crime in his last words. A French medium is left full of regret after taking on one last s&eacute;ance before retirement . . . These chilling tales and more await in this collection from the acclaimed Queen of Crime.</div>

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