A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.After a supper of canned lobster and a dessert of canned trifle, three people become ill and Mrs Jones is found dead. Although a bought of botulism is suspected, the Tuesday Night Club is keen to investigate further… ...
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Every morning, at the same hour whilst on the golf course, Jack Hartington hears mysterious cries for help. He speaks to a resident of the cottage from which the cries emanate and learns that she has unsettling dreams of a woman with a blue Chinese vase. Believing that the cries for help are from the late Mrs Turner, the former resident of the cottage, J ...
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Agatha Christie’s first ever short story, originally titled ‘House of Beauty’, explores insanity, death and immortality in a brief tale about the effects of a macabre recurring dream on a man’s life… ...
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.In this supernatural tale by the Queen of Crime, a nun has memories of a past-life in an ancient civilisation and believes she can harness natural psychic powers… ...
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Boredom sets in on the rather less exciting than expected trip across the desert to Baghdad. Mr. Parker Pyne, with a nose for trouble, soon sets his sights on the case of the missing Mr. Long, the famed defaulting financier who, as the papers would have it is in South America, as entertainment. What with the chaos of everyone trying to sleep during the l ...
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.A retired spy breaks his neck after a fall and dies. The death is no accident and Sir Henry wants Miss Marple’s help to analyse the evidence and find out which of the four suspects is guilty… ...
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.When Miss Marple dines at the Bantrys the conversation always turns to murder. Whilst Dr Lloyd was in the Canary Islands, a woman drowned in the sea. To all it seems an accident, but one eyewitness says her paid companion deliberately drowned her… ...
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.On a dark evening, Mr Harley Quin appears at the door of Royston Hall under the premise that his car has broken down. Once inside, he embarks upon the tragic tale of Royston Hall’s former occupants, leading to a dramatic change in the perceptions of the current inhabitants – but has Mr Quin’s revelation come too late? ...
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.After a close encounter with death, a materialistic man becomes entranced by strange music. Torn between the freedom he craves and the money he loves his behaviour becomes erratic. He attempts to track down the man without legs who plays the music… ...
