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)

Agatha Christie