Agatha Christie Gift Set  •  Agatha Christie MYSTERY •  2006 •  HARD COVER Agatha Christie's settings, storytelling ingenuity and page-turning suspense are hard to beat. This handsomely designed, eight-title hardcover gift set includes Murder on the Orient Express, Mysterious Affair at Styles, Murder at the Vicarage, Body in the Library, ABC Murders, Evil Under the Sun, Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Murder is Announced. (WLD130, $96.00)
Appointment with Death  •  Agatha Christie MYSTERY •  1997 •  PAPER  • 212 PAGES Agatha Christie lived in Syria and the Middle East with her archaeologist husband Max Brown in the 1930s, the source for many of her wildly popular mysteries. First published in 1938, Appointment With Death is the story of an American family on a grand tour of the Holy Land. Hercule Poirot steps into the story when the contentious wife is found murdered in the city of Petra. In addition to the pleasure of who-dun-it, the book is rich in detail of place. (JRD02, $6.99)
A Caribbean Mystery  •  Agatha Christie MYSTERY •  2000 •  PAPER  • 216 PAGES In her only outing abroad (recovering from pneumonia no less), the very proper Miss Marple solves a series of mysterious deaths on the Caribbean island where she is vacationing in this classic Agatha Christie, originally published in 1964. (CRB207, $6.99)
Death on the Nile  •  Agatha Christie MYSTERY •  2004 •  PAPER  • 432 PAGES How could we resist? Christie wrote this book on the terrace of the Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan. Starring Hercule Poirot, it's Egypt's most famous murder mystery. (EGY09, $6.99)
Murder in Mesopotamia  •  Agatha Christie MYSTERY •  2007 •  HARD COVER  • 284 PAGES One of a series of Hercule Poirot mysteries with an archaeological twist, filled with details of archaeological work and clearly inspired by Christie's time at the excavations of Leonard and Katherine Wooley at the ancient city of Ur (modern Tell al-Muqayyar). Christie met her second husand Max Mallowan on a return visit to the site. (IRQ20, $12.00)
Murder on the Orient Express  •  Agatha Christie MYSTERY •  2000 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES Christie's bestseller is sure to keep train passengers awake long into the night. (EUR118, $6.99)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Secret Adversary: An Agatha Christie Omnibus  •  Agatha Christie LITERATURE •  1998 •  PAPER  • 448 PAGES A new edition including two of the master's most popular novels. At the peak of her career, Christie began writing The Mysterious Affair at Styles the Moorehead Hotel, now a notable British historic attraction. (GBR51, $12.95)