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Poirot investigates
by Agatha Christie
I was standing at the window of Poirot's rooms looking out idly on the street below.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
by Agatha Christie
The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided.
The Big Four
by Agatha Christie
I have met people who enjoy a channel crossing; men who can sit calmly in their deck-chairs and, on arrival, wait until ...
Curtain
by Agatha Christie
WHO is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?
The Hollow
by Agatha Christie
AT 6:13 A.M. on a Friday morning Lucy Angkatell's big blue eyes opened upon another day, and as always, she was at once ...
Cards on the Table
by Agatha Christie
"MY dear Monsieur Poirot!" It was a soft purring voice used deliberately as an instrument-nothing impulsive or unpremedi...
Appointment with Death
by Agatha Christie
"YOU do see, don't you, that she's go to be killed?"
Peril at End House
by Agatha Christie
NO seaside town in the south of England is, I think, as attractive as St. Loo.
After the Funeral
by Agatha Christie
OLD Lanscombe moved totteringly from room to room, pulling up the blinds.
The Mystery of the Blue Train
by Agatha Christie
IT was close on midnight when a man crossed the Place de la Concorde.
The Sign of Four
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco cas...
Death on the Nile
by Agatha Christie
"Linnet Ridgeway!" "That's her!" said Mr. Burnaby, the landlord of the Three Crowns.
Murder in Three Acts
by Agatha Christie
MR. Satterthwaite sat on the terrace of Crow's Nest and watched his host, Sir Charles Cartwright, climbing up the path f...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]
by Arthur Conan Doyle
I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation ...
Hallowe'en Party
by Agatha Christie
MRS. Ariadne Oliver had gone with the friend with whom she was staying, Judith Butler, to help with the preparations for...
Dead Man's Folly
by Agatha Christie
IT was Miss Lemon, Poirot's efficient secretary, who took the telephone call.
The Secret Adversary
by Agatha Christie
"Tommy, old thing!" "Tuppence, old bean!" The two young people greeted each other affectionately, and momentarily blocke...