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Agatha Christie
Appointment with Death
• Agatha Christie
MYSTERY •
2011 •
PAPER
• 256 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.
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A Caribbean Mystery
• Agatha Christie
MYSTERY •
2007 •
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, $12.00) |
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Death on the Nile
• Agatha Christie
MYSTERY •
2004 •
PAPER
• 333 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, $12.99) |
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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.
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Murder on the Orient Express
• Agatha Christie
MYSTERY •
2011 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer.
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