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While playing golf, Bobby Jones and Dr. Thomas discover a dying man at the base of a cliff. Before he dies, the man manages to get out the words, "Why didn't they ask Evans?" Days later, remembering things that don't seem to add up about the death, Bobby decides to investigate, and his friend Frances Derwent immediately agrees to help. Was it a misstep that sent a handsome stranger plummeting to his death over a cliff? Or was it a something more sinister?...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
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770L
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Newly orphaned archaeologist's daughter Anne Beddingfeld is off to see the world. After witnessing a gruesome and fatal 'accident', following a suspected murderer, and finding a mysterious clue on a scrap of paper, Anne sets sail for South Africa. Sinister happenings ensue, but her newly acquired paternalistic protector, Sir Eustace, will surely see that she comes to no permanent harm. But which of the two masterful men sharing the voyage, Colonel...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
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760L
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"When a Halloween party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murderer....Joyce--a surly thirteen-year-old--boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. Famed detective Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate. Set against a night of tricker and the occult, it's up to Poirot to uncover the real evil presence...
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Six people sit down to a sumptuous meal at a table laid for seven. In front of the empty place is a sprig of rosemary-"rosemary for remembrance." A strange sentiment considering no one is likely to forget the night, exactly a year ago, that Rosemary Barton died at exactly the same table, her beautiful face unrecognizable, convulsed with pain and horror. But then Rosemary had always been memorable-she had the ability to arouse strong passions in most...
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Little did Anthony Cade suspect that an errand for a friend would place him at the center of a deadly conspiracy. Drawn into a web of intrigue, he begins to realize that the simple favor has placed him in serious danger. As events unfold, the combined forces of Scotland Yard and the French Sûreté gradually converge on Chimneys, the great country estate that hides an amazing secret. . . .
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
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700L
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A priest's death leads to sinister goings-on in an old country pub...To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning? Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman's head? Or was it when the priest's assailant searched him so roughly he tore the clergyman's cassock? Or could it have been the priest's visit, just minutes before, to a woman on...
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 32
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[2023]
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"At a Halloween party, Joyce--a surly thirteen-year-old--boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. Famed detective Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate. Set against a night of trickery and the occult, it's up to Poirot to uncover the real evil presence responsible for this ghastly deed."--
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Miss Marple mystery volume 05
Jane Marple murder mystery volume 08
Collins Agatha Christie ELT Readers
Jane Marple murder mystery volume 08
Collins Agatha Christie ELT Readers
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720L
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Responding to an urgent invitation, Miss Marple senses danger when she arrives at her friend Carrie Louise's sprawling estate. To Miss Marple's surprise, Carrie Louise's remote 'Gothic monstrosity' has been turned into a rehabilitation center for delinquent boys. Some of Carrie Louise's own children and grandchildren have also taken up residence at Stonygates and have mixed feelings about the way their mother is squandering the family fortune. Then...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
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710L
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Egypt in 2000 BC. At the foot of a cliff lies the broken, twisted body of Nofret, concubine to a ka-priest. Young, beautiful, and venomous, most agree that it was fate -- she deserved to die like a snake! But at her father's house on the banks of the Nile, the priest's daughter Renisenb believes that the woman's death is suspicious. Increasingly, she becomes convinced that the source of evil lurks within their household -- and watches helplessly as...
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Get away from it all with this selection of mid-summer murders by Agatha Christie, read by television's Captain Hastings, the actor and novelist Hugh Fraser!
Summer. Holiday season. A time for rest and relaxation. But murder can strike anywhere, as this selection of an 'unlucky thirteen' mysteries by Agatha Christie proves.
Join Hercule Poirot, Christopher Parker Pyne, Harley Quin and James Bond on this special holiday-themed collection, and take...
14) Remembered death
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One year ago on November 2nd, seven people sat down to dinner at the restaurant Luxembourg. One of them, Rosemary Barton, never got up. She was thought to have committed suicide due to post-flu depression. But when her husband, George Barton, began receiving anonymous letters saying that Rosemary did not kill herself but was murdered, he decided to investigate. In the process, he reconstructed the fateful dinner precisely, invited the same people,...
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[2022]
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In this new collection of Agatha Christie short stories, witness the dark side of love - crimes of passion, games of the heart, and deadly affairs. This pulse-pounding compendium features beloved detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, master of charades Parker Pyne, the enigmatic Harley Quin, and the adventurous Tommy and Tuppence, all on the ready to solve a tantalizing mystery.
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Jane Marple murder mysteries volume 5
Miss Marple mystery volume 03
Miss Marple mystery volume 05
Collins Agatha Christie ELT Readers
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Miss Marple mystery volume 03
Miss Marple mystery volume 05
Collins Agatha Christie ELT Readers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
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740L
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Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets- a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs. Symmington, commits suicide. Her final note says "I can't go on," but Miss Marple questions the coroner's verdict of suicide. Soon nobody is sure of anyone- as secrets stop being shameful and start becoming deadly.--From back cover.
17) Murder is easy
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It was just Luke Fitzwilliam's luck to be stuck next to a dotty old woman like Miss Fullerton on the London-bound train---although he found himself quite entertained with her tall tales about a series of perfect murders in the quaint village of Wychwood. But when he reads the next day of the freak accident that killer her, too, Fitzwilliam's amusement turns to grave concern. A visit to the isolated village confirms his worst fears. For Wychwood seems...
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Christmas Eve, and the Lee family's reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. When Hercule Poirot offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man.
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Escape from isolation and broaden your horizons with this audio collection of murder mysteries by Agatha Christie, read by David Suchet, television’s iconic Poirot for more than two decades.
Train journeys through rolling countryside and cruises across the open ocean might sound like paradise, but when murder strikes mid-journey, they’re anything but. Even on vacation, tensions can bubble beneath the surface, and when the end of the line leads...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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A seance in a snowbound Dartmoor house predicts a grisly murder ... In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a small table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: 'Captain Trevelyan ... dead ... murder.'Is this black magic or simply a macabre joke? The only way to be certain is to locate Captain Trevelyan. Unfortunately, his home is six miles away and, with snow drifts blocking...
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