Books

An old woman in a nursing home speaks of a child buried behind the fireplace… When Tommy and Tuppence visited an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they thought nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada was a very difficult old lady. But when Mrs Lockett mentioned a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs Lancaster talked about ‘something behind the fireplace’, Tommy and Tuppence found themselves caught up in an unexpected adventure involving possible black magic…

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property, they have inherited some worthless bric-a-brac, including a collection of antique books. While rustling through a copy of The Black Arrow, Tuppence comes upon a series of apparently random underlinings.

This novel, set during World War II, sees Tommy and Tuppence Beresford appointed as spies by the intelligence service. Their mission: to seek out the Nazis in disguise, a man and a woman from among the colourful guests at a seaside hotel.

A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples. . . At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce - a hostile thirteen-year-old - boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the `evil presence'. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer. . . Author BiographyAgatha Christie was born…

A healthy young man dies in his sleep, despite the ringing of eight separate alarm clocks…Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper; so the other house guests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off, one after the other, starting at 6.30 a.m. But when morning arrived, one clock was missing and the prank had backfired with tragic consequences.For Jimmy Thesiger in particular, the words ‘Seven Dials’ were to take on a new and chilling…

إن أجاثا كريستي، التي تُعدّ بحق أفضل روائية كتبت عن الجرائم، وصلت إلى مستوى لا تتعداه إلاّ فيما ندر، وذلك على حد وصف أحد النقاد، لكن عاماً بعد عام وكتاباً بعد الآخر، تزداد عبقريتها وتتطور قدراتها كروائية ويصبح ذكاؤها أكثر إتقاداً. وبهذه القصة التي تُعدّ من روائع القصص البوليسية التي كتبتها أجاثا كريستي، نجد أجاثا تضع بصمتها في تاريخ القصص البوليسية. إن فكرة القصص لا تقل روعة عن طريقة حبكها، فالقاتل في هذه القصة شخص مهووس يرتكب جرائمه وفق الترتيب الأبجدي لأسماء ضحاياه، حيث يبدأ بالحرف "إيه"…