Agatha Christie: Five Complete Novels of Murder and Detection is an omnibus edition of Agatha Christie works published by Avenel Books in 1986. The omnibus is available in hardcover only and comprises five novels: Peril at End House, The Murder at Hazelmoor, Easy to Kill, Ten Little Indians and Evil Under the Sun.
This omnibus came in several versions. The earliest version was published by Avenel Books and distributed by Crown Publishing, by arrangement with Dodd Mead. Another edition was published by Wings Books in 1991, distributed by Outlet Books, a Random House company. This edition a different cover and a new ISBN 9780517037508 as well as a separate Library of Congress catalogue entry (LCCN: 90026594). From at least the fourth impression of this edition was distributed by Random House Value Publishing,
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AGATHA
CHRISTIE
Five Complete Novels
of Murder and Detection
Here is the grand dame of the mystery genre in yet another delicious collection of murder, skillful sleuths, and surprising plots.
Hercule Poirot's holiday at the seaside resort of St. Loo is rudely interrupted in Peril at End House. Someone is trying to kill Nick Buckley, mistress of End House. The murderer might have succeeded had not one attempt been made in front of Hercule Poirot. His interest definitely piqued, Poirot resolves to find the prospective murderer as well as a plausible motive for Nick Buckley's death.
In the snowbound drawing room of a house on the edge of bleak Dartmoor, six people hold a seance, just for fun. But the fun ends in The Murder at Hazelmoor when the "spirits say their neighbor Captain Treveylan has been murdered. Inspector Narracott, aided by Emily Trefusis, the fiancée of the man suspected of Treveylan's murder, unravels the story behind the murder.
In Easy to Kill, Luke Fitzwilliam is riding riding in a railway carriage when he hears a sweet elderly woman state that there is a madmaninflicting his private justicee-killing people who "deserve" to die--on her sleepy English village. When the old lady is killed by a hit-and-run driver, Fitzwilliam feels he must investigate.
Ten Little Indians is a mystery classic. Ten people are marooned on a small island off the coast of England. One by one they are murdered, according to the words of the nursery rhyme "Ten Little Indians." How is it possible that all ten are found murdered when there truly was no one else on the island?
Another holiday is interrupted for Hercule Poirot in Evil Under the Sun. The select resort on the little island at Leathercombe Bay is supposed to provide good food, sports, and congenial guests. It also offers one item not in the travel brochure--murder. Hercule Poirot must use all of his Belgian 'little grey cells' to solve the murder of the beautiful, but thoroughly unlikable, Arlena Marshall
The five novels in this collection prove, once again, Agatha Christie's mastery of the mystery field. Everyone will find fascinating reading, whether they are new to Christie's artistry or already familiar with her work.
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