There's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way through the alphabet. And as a macabre calling card he leaves beside each victim's corpse the ABC Railway Guide open at the name of the town where the murder has taken place. Having begun with Andover, Bexhill and then Churston, there seems little chance of the murderer being caught - until he makes the crucial and vain mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot to frustrate his plans.

Linnet Doyle is young, beautiful, and rich. She's the girl who has everything -- including the man her best friend loves. Linnet and her new husband take a cruise on the Nile, where they meet the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot. It should be an idyllic trip, yet Poirot has a vague, uneasy feeling that something is dangerously amiss...

Hercule Poirot has already decided to retire, but first he will take on twelve remarkable cases in the contemporary world that correspond to the twelve labours of Hercules.

Described by the queen of mystery herself as one of her favorites of her published work, Crooked House is a classic Agatha Christie thriller revolving around a devastating family mystery. The Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That is until the head of the household, Aristide, is murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection. Suspicion naturally falls on the old man's young widow, fifty years his junior. But...

In one of London's most elegant shops, a decorative doll in green velvet adopts some rather human, and sinister, traits ... A country gentleman is questioned about a murder that has yet to be committed ... In summoning spirits, a medium is drawn closer to the world of the dead than she ever imagined possible ... In a small country church, a dying man's last word, sanctuary, becomes both an elegy and a clue to a crime. A collection of stories by Agatha...

"Miss Marple receives a letter from a dead man instructing her how to conduct an investigation into a puzzlingly unspecific crime. In utter disbelief, Miss Marple reads the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr. Rafiel--an acquaintance she had met briefly on her travels. He had left instructions for her to investigate a crime after his death. The only problem was, he had failed to tell her who was involved or where and when the crime...

"N or M Song Susie" were the last words uttered by a government agent. Now Tommy Beresford is asked by the British Intelligence Service to try to smoke out an enemy agent who is believed to the living at the Sans Souci Hotel in the seaside town of Leahampton. Refusing to be left behind, Tuppence joins him. Once inside the Sans Souci, the intrepid Berefords are greeted by hostile guests, a mysterious hotelier, ransacked rooms, and a disappearance....