A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie
By: Robert Barnard
3.75
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie Includes the definitive bibliography and fi…
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1. A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)
By: Agatha Christie
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"A Murder is Announced" is a staple of crime fiction and often considered as the best Miss Marple n… read more
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"الناس في الظلام مختلفين كثيرا"-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)
"Use that fluff of yours you call a brain."-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)
"It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy."-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)
"إن الجرائم الصغيرة تؤدي إلى الجرائم الكبيرة .. أليس كذلك ؟"-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)
2. Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
By: Raymond Chandler
4.10
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at… read more
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- mystery
- crime
"She was a cute as a washtub."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
"It was a nice walk, if you liked grunting."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
"The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
3. Destination Unknown
By: Agatha Christie
3.70
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
A young woman with nothing to live for is persuaded to embark on a suicide mission to find a missin… read more
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- crime
- british literature
"His enthusiasm was of a contagious kind."-Agatha Christie, Destination Unknown
"He smiled, but not a very pleasant smile. Faintly catlike."-Agatha Christie, Destination Unknown
"Food and money and luxury and women aren’t everything, you know."-Agatha Christie, Destination Unknown
"Yet, even though he himself escaped unscathed, it was nevertheless defeat."-Agatha Christie, Destination Unknown
4. The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)
By: Agatha Christie
3.85
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
Tommy Beresford and Prudence 'Tuppence' Cowley are young, in love… and flat broke. Just after Great… read more
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- british literature
"It's dangerous to know too much."-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)
"Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown."-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)
"Shades of Pelmanism!’ said Tommy, and relapsed into silence."-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)
"Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best."-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)
5. Come, Tell Me How You Live
By: Agatha Christie , None , Agatha Christie Mallowan
4.09
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Over the course of her long, prolific career, Agatha Christie gave the world a wealth of ingenious … read more
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- mystery
- nonfiction
- biography
"I pass to the Stationery Department. I buy several fountain and stylographic pens - it being my experience that, though a fountain pen in England behaves in an exemplary manner, the moment it is let …"-Agatha Christie, Come, Tell Me How You Live
6. Died in the Wool (Roderick Alleyn, #13)
By: Ngaio Marsh
4.09
Format: 129 pages,
One summer evening in 1942, Flossie Rubrick, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patrioti… read more
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- crime
- british literature
7. Poirot's Early Cases: 18 Hercule Poirot Mysteries (Hercule Poirot, #38)
By: Agatha Christie , Hugh Fraser , David Suchet
4.18
Format: 306 pages, Audio CD
The unabridged tales in this Mystery Mastersaudiobook include all the ones in the print book first … read more
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- crime
8. By the Pricking of My Thumbs (Tommy and Tuppence, #4)
By: Agatha Christie
2.50
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
While visiting Tommy's Aunt Ada at Sunny Ridge Nursing Home, Tuppence encounters some odd residents… read more
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- crime
9. The Man Within
By: Graham Greene , Jonathan Yardley
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
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- british literature
10. Third Girl (Hercule Poirot, #35)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: 377 pages, Paperback
Poirot is approached by a girl who shared a flat with two other girls in London. She is convinced s… read more
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- mystery
- crime
11. At Bertram's Hotel (Miss Marple, #11)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: 377 pages, Paperback
An old-fashioned London Hotel is not quite as reputable as it makes out! When Miss Marple comes up … read more
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- mystery
- crime
- british literature
12. Murder Most Unladylike (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #1)
By: Robin Stevens
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Deepdean School for Girls, 1934. When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up their very own deadly secre… read more
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- mystery
- crime
13. Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #24)
By: Agatha Christie
5.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Amyas Crale, un peintre celebre, a ete assassine, et sa femme, condamnee pour ce meurtre. Seize ans… read more
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- mystery
- crime
14. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (Miss Marple, #9)
By: Agatha Christie
4.01
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been gabbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Greg… read more
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- mystery
- crime
15. After the Funeral (Hercule Poirot, #29)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Hercule Poirot is called on to investigate the murder of a brother and sister in this classic from … read more
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- mystery
- crime
16. Nemesis (Miss Marple, #11)
By: Agatha Christie
3.86
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
In utter disbelief, Jane Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr Rafi… read more
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- mystery
- crime
- british literature
"Well, if you do sense evil, tell me. I shall be glad to know."-Agatha Christie, Nemesis (Miss Marple, #11)
"The only thing I shall want for a rainy day will be my umbrella."-Agatha Christie, Nemesis (Miss Marple, #11)
"Ah, I see you are an actress, Miss Marple, as well as an avenger."-Agatha Christie, Nemesis (Miss Marple, #11)
"One does not like to make definite assertions unless one has a little more definite knowledge."-Agatha Christie, Nemesis (Miss Marple, #11)
17. A Caribbean Mystery (Miss Marple, #10)
By: Agatha Christie
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
There is no rest or relaxation for Miss Marple. Miss Jane Marple, Agatha Christie's most appealing… read more
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- crime
18. Poirot and Me
By: Geoffrey Wansell , David Suchet
3.50
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Hercule Poirot, with his distinctive moustache and fastidious ways, is one of Agatha Christie's fin… read more
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- mystery
- nonfiction
- biography
19. Orient Express
By: Christopher Hitchens , Graham Greene
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
As the Orient Express hurtles across Europe on its three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople,… read more
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- mystery
- british literature
20. Immortality, Inc.
By: Robert Sheckley
3.36
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published in 1959 as a startling, revolutionary novel of the future, then pushed to new cinem… read more
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21. The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #4)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his acci… read more
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22. Cat Among the Pigeons (Hercule Poirot, #32)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while … read more
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23. Passenger to Frankfurt
By: Agatha Christie
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
When a bored diplomat is approached in a bleak airport by a woman whose life is in danger, his inte… read more
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24. Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4)
By: Agatha Christie
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
An elderly lady is on her way to Scotland Yard to report several murders in her village. "It is ver… read more
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25. 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)
By: Agatha Christie
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For an instant the two trains ran together, going in the same direction side by side. In that froze… read more
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- crime
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"Don’t go,"-Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)
"I think, my dear, we won't talk any more about murder during tea. Such an unpleasant subject."-Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)
"Everybody in St. Mary Mead knew Miss Marple; fluffy and dithery in appearance, but inwardly as sharp and as shrewd as they make them."-Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)
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27. Scales of Justice (Roderick Alleyn, #18)
By: Ngaio Marsh
3.71
Format: 244 pages,
The quiet village of Swevenings seemed an English pastoral paradise, until the savagely beaten body… read more
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28. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman
By: Lucy Worsley
4.20
Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition
A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more
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- nonfiction
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29. A Heart Full of Headstones (Inspector Rebus, #24)
By: Ian Rankin
4.20
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The brand-new John Rebus thriller from the #1 international bestseller Ian Rankin. John Rebus st… read more
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30. The Case of Miss Elliott
By: Emmuska Orczy
3.58
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In the title story, a young matron from a convalescent home is found dead in a quiet Maida Vale str… read more
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31. A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie
By: Robert Barnard
3.75
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie Includes the definitive bibliography and fi… read more
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- british literature
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- mystery
- crime
- literary criticism
