Agatha Christie: Murderers Abroad is an omnibus edition of Agatha Christie works published by Avenel Books in 1989. The omnibus is available in hardcover only and comprises five novels: The Mystery of the Blue Train, Murder in Mesopotamia, They Came to Baghdad, So Many Steps to Death and Passenger to Frankfurt.
This omnibus came in several versions. The earliest version was published in 1989 by Avenel Books and distributed by Crown Publishing, by arrangement with Dodd Mead. Another edition was published by Avenel in 1991, distributed by Outlet Books, a Random House company. This edition has the same cover with slightly different colours and a new ISBN 9780517055885. From the second impression of this edition, the title was published under the Wings Book imprint and distributed by Random House Value Publishing,
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AGATHA
CHRISTIE
MURDERERS ABROAD
FIVE COMPLETE NOVELS
With Agatha Christie as your traveling companion, you can be sure your tour will include murder most foul, a plentiful array of suspects, and more than a few unforeseen developments. Here, in Agatha Christie: Murderers Abroad, are five complete novels of murder and detection, all with exotic, far-flung locales.
In The Mystery of the Blue Train, you'll speed toward the south of France on board a luxury train filled with well-heeled passengers, only to find the young heiress Ruth Kettering strangled in her compartment and her priceless rubies missing. It's up to fellow traveler Hercule Poirot to untangle a complicated web of deceit and greed in his inimitable fashion.
Murder in Mesopotamia brings us to the site of an archeological dig where Louise Leidner, the high-strung wife of the expedition leader, is convinced that her first husband--presumed killed in the warr-is still alive and is planning to murder her, But why is it that the poison-pen notes she produces to substantiate her bizarre claim look as if they were written in her own hand? Her colleagues, convinced of her mental instability, are more than a little taken aback when she is found bludgeoned to death. Once again, it is the droll Belgian detective Hercule Poirot who must unmask the killer.
The world of high-stakes espionage is the subject of the remaining three novels in this spell-binding collection. In They Came to Baghdad, the impetuous Victoria Jones vows to follow the charming young man she's met on a park bench to his new job halfway around the world--but once she arrives, her dreams of romance are dashed. As a witness to murder Victoria finds herself pursued by an underground network of anarchists who not only threathen her, but also the fate of the world.
Hilary Craven, bereft and contemplating suicide, accepts a reckless top-secret assignment in So Many Steps to Death. Assuming the role of Olive Betterton, the wife of a brilliant physicist who has simply disappeared, Hilary attempts to infiltrate the secluded compound where many of the world's top scientists are believed to be working. Her mission is to lean the identity of the psychotic megalomaniac who through brainwashing techniques has induced these genuises to work for him.
Sir Stafford Nye, the protagonist of Passenger to Frankfurt, has always been one for adventure. When a woman asks him to give her his oversized cloak and his passport so that she may attempt to reach England with top-secret documents that could benefit the free world, he is compelled to accept. Sir Nye finds himself caught in a whirlwind of intrigue and danger.
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