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Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2000, c1953
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
With 14 stories, 14 crimes, and twice as many suspects, this delightful Christie collection, repackaged and redesigned, firmly established the brilliant Belgian sleuth's reputation and standing in the canon of classic detective fiction. What connects a movie star, an archaeologist, a French maid, a prime minister, a wealthy dowager, and an Italian count? Crime, of course-and the master crime-solver, Hercule Poirot.
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 17
Language
English
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"Christmas Eve, and the Lee family?s reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. When Hercule Poirot offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man . . ."--Publisher's website.
4) Third girl
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 31
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
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Description
When the Third Girl sharing a London flat with two others announces to Poirot that she?s a murderer and then disappears, the masterful investigator must figure out whether the missing girl is a criminal, a victim, or merely insane.
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 20
Language
English
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Ever since Arlena's arrival the air had been thick with sexual tension. Each of the guests had a motive to kill her, including Arlena's new husband. But Hercule Poirot suspects that this apparent crime of passion? conceals something much more evil.
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 25
Language
English
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Description
Mrs. McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. James Bently, her lodger, has traces of her blood and hair on his clothes, but there's more to this case. Can Poirot stay alive long enough to find the truth?
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Hercule Poirot is traveling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill estate. Richard Devonport has summoned the renowned detective to prove that his fiancée, Helen, is innocent of the murder of his brother, Frank. Poirot will have only days to investigate before Helen is hanged, but there is one strange condition attached: he must conceal his true reason for being there from the rest of the Devonport family. The coach...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 33
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. Here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies a husband and wife shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves back into the past and discovers that old sin leave long shadows'."--
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 22
Language
English
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Description
When Lucy Angkatell hosts a weekend get-together at her country estate, she appears to overlook the obvious fact that all her guests loathe one another. Poirot enjoys a ringside seat for the bizarre goings-on, but he is thrust into an active role when the proceedings suddenly turn deadly.
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Hercule Poirot sifts through his post one particular morning, he alights upon a letter from an elderly and (as it transpires) exceedingly rich spinster--Miss Emily Arundell. She is clearly in great distress and seeking his help, but doesn't say why. Her only specific mention is "the incident of the dog's ball." However, what intrigues Poirot is the date of the communication--it was written two months ago. He persuades Captain Hastings that they...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 18
Language
English
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Beautiful, young Elinor Carlisle stands serenely in the dock accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence is damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, one man still presumes Elinor is innocent until proven guilty; Hercule Poirot is all that stands between Elinor and the gallows ...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 26
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
1984, c1975
Language
English
Description
In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet-reasoned the detective-like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters. So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot makes up his mind to accept just twelve more cases: his self-imposed "Labors." Each would go down in the annals of crime as a heroic feat of deduction.
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Actress Jane Wilkinson wants out of a miserable marriage, but is she guilty of stabbing her way out of it? She claims she's innocent. Hercule Poirot wonders if she's giving the performance of a lifetime.
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 13
Language
English
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Description
When the host is found dead at a card game, four investigators - including Poirot himself - look for clues as they set out to discover which guest is the killer.
Mr. Shaitana is famous as a flamboyant party host. When he boasts to Hercule Poirot that he considers murder an art form, the detective has some reservations about accepting a party invitation to view Shaitana's 'private collection.' Three of the other players turn out to be Superintendent...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 24
Language
English
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Description
"A few weeks after marrying an attractive widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs. Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the Cloade family fortune. Shortly afterward, Hercule Poirot receives a visit from the dead man's sister-in-law who claims she has been warned by "spirits" that Mrs. Underhay's first husband is still alive. Poirot has his suspicions when he is asked to find...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
The world's most beloved detective, Hercule Poirot—the legendary star of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and most recently The Monogram Murders and Closed Casket—returns in a stylish, diabolically clever mystery set in the London of 1930.
"We Agatha Christie fans read her stories—and particularly her Poirot novels—because the mysteries are invariably equal parts charming and
...Author
Series
New Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 5
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"It's December 19, 1931. Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool are looking forward to a much-needed, restful Christmas holiday, when they are called upon to investigate the murder of a man in a Norfolk hospital ward. Cynthia Catchpool, Edward's mother, insists that Poirot stay with her in a crumbling mansion by the coast, so that they can all be together for the festive period while he solves the case. As Poirot digs into the mystery, he discovers...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington chokes on his cocktail at a dinner party thrown by Sir Charles Cartwright, it is thought to be nearly all thirteen guests, including Belgian detective extraordinaire, Hercule Poirot, to be an accidental death. Shortly afterwards, however, a second death in suspiciously similar circumstances and with many of the same people present puts both Poirot and a team of sleuths on the trail of a murderer whose...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 29
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The late Richard Abernethie's solicitor, Mr. Entwhistle, turns to Hercule Poirot after Richard's sister Cora is killed with a hatchet the day after suggesting to other family members that her wealthy brother's death may not have been natural. The bodies seem to be piling up at Enderby Hall as her companion is sent a sliver of wedding cake steeped in arsenic. A mystery complete with genealogical tree, a dubious will, and a family full of potential...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 32
Publisher
Center Point Publishing
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Poirot is called in when a young teen is found murdered at a Halloween party.
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