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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
660L
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English
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The old children's game now seemed rather tasteless. The real Mrs McGinty was killed by a crushing blow to the back of the head and her pitifully small savings were stolen. Suspicion falls immediately on her lodger, hard up and out of a job. Hercule Poirot has other ideas--unaware that his own life is now in great danger...
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
680L
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English
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In Agatha Christie's classic, Three Act Tragedy, the normally unflappable Hercule Poirot faces his most baffling investigation: the seemingly motiveless murder of the thirteenth guest at dinner party, who choked to death on a cocktail containing not a trace of poison. Sir Charles Cartwright should have known better than to allow thirteen guests to sit down for dinner. For at the end of the evening one of them is dead-choked by a cocktail that contained...
3) The clocks
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Sheila Webb expected to find a respectable blind lady waiting for her at 19 Wilbraham Crescent - not the body of a middle-aged man sprawled across the living room floor. But when old Miss Pebmarsh denies sending for her in the first place, or of owning all the clocks that surround the body, it's clear that they are going to need a very good detective. "This crime is so complicated that it must be quite simple," declares Hercule Poirot. But there's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
640L
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English
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While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift. Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment. Incredibly, that compartment is locked from the inside. With no escape into the wintery landscape the killer must still be on board. Fortunately, the brilliant...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
630L
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English
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The Leonides family live together in a large and crooked house in a wealthy London suburb. When the elderly millionaire Aristide Leonides is murdered with a fatal injection, the family reluctantly suspect his glamorous, young second wife. Charles Hayward, the fiance of Sophia Leonides, the late millionaire's granddaughter observes the family closely, and makes a terrible and shocking discovery.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
840L
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English
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The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense--creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characters--brings her entire oeuvre of ingenious whodunits, locked room mysteries, and perplexing puzzles to Harper Paperbacks. Bagdad is the chosen location for a secret superpower summit. But the word is out, and an organization...
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A far-from-warm welcome greets Hercule Poirot as he arrives for lunch at Lucy Angkatell's country house. A man lies dying by the swimming pool, his blood dripping into the water. His wife stands over him, holding a revolver. As Poirot investigates, he begins to realize that beneath the respectable surface lies a tangle of family secrets and everyone becomes a suspect. This title was previously published as Murder After Hours.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 33
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English
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You're front-row center to murder as a homicidal maniac stalks the snowbound guests of an imposing manor ... as a group of strangers gather on an isolated island -- to the diabolical delight of a secret killer ... as a scheming wife takes the stand against her husband in a startling criminal trial. From The Mousetrap (the longest-running play in history) to Ten Little Indians and Witness for the Prosecution (both made into classic film thrillers),...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
760L
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English
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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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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...
11) Endless night
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
680L
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English
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Gypsy's Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea - and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after. Yet, as he left the village, a shadow of menace hung over the land. For this was the place where accidents happened. Perhaps Michael should have heeded the locals' warnings: 'There's no luck for them as meddles with Gypsy's...
12) Towards zero
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Lady Camilla Tressilian lives with her companion and secretary, Mary Aldin, at Gull's Point. As the late summer approaches, Lady Tressilian is hosting a series of guests. Tennis player Nevile Strange has brought his beautiful young wife Kay to Gull's Point to meet the woman who helped raised him. As it happens, Audrey, his ex-wife, arrives for her annual visit. No one can quite understand why either party would agree to this rather awkward reunion,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
570L
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"Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious "U.N. Owen." At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by the end of the night one of the guests is dead Stranded by a violent storm, and haunted by a nursery rhyme counting down one by one...as one by one...they begin to die. Who among them is the killer and will any of them survive?" --Cover, p. 4.
14) N or M?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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"It is World War II, and while the RAF struggles to keep the Luftwaffe at bay, Britain faces an even more sinister threat from 'the enemy within'--Nazis posing as ordinary citizens. With pressure mounting, the intelligence service appoints two unlikely spies, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Their mission: to seek out a man and a woman from among the colorful guests at Sans Souci, a seaside hotel. But this assignment is no stroll along the promenade--N...
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Lexile measure
660L
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"The tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything . . . until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: "I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger." Yet under the searing heat of the Egyptian sun, nothing is ever quite...
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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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Jane Marple murder mysteries volume 10
Miss Marple mystery volume 07
Jane Marple murder mystery volume 10
Miss Marple mystery volume 08
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Miss Marple mystery volume 07
Jane Marple murder mystery volume 10
Miss Marple mystery volume 08
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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"For an instant the two trains ran side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth McGillicuddy stared helplessly out of her carriage window as a man tightened his grip around a woman's throat. She watched on as the body crumpled. Then the other train drew away. But who, apart from Mrs. McGillicuddy's friend Jane Marple, would take her story seriously? After all, there are no other witnesses, no suspects, and no case. How could there be, with no corpse...
18) The pale horse
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
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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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
690L
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English
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Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye,Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie,When the pie was opened the birds began to sing,Oh wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the king?Rex Fortesque was not so fortunate. He wasn't presented with a pie--he was murdered! The only clue is the rye found in his trousers pocket. When two more murders ensue only Jane Marple is able to see a pattern: a childhood rhyme with a link to the victims' past. Murder...
20) Sleeping murder
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Jane Marple murder mysteries volume 17
Miss Marple mystery volume 13
Miss Marple mystery volume 17
Agatha Christie mystery collection
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Miss Marple mystery volume 13
Miss Marple mystery volume 17
Agatha Christie mystery collection
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Lexile measure
720L
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English
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Originally published the year of Agatha Christie's death, Sleeping Murder is a novel as legendary as its lead character and its creator...A novel that adheres to the classic mystery formula, and transcends it... A novel that is a must for every mystery reader, marking the final bow of Christie's beloved sleuth, Miss Jane Marple. Now Sleeping Murder is back in a special trade edition, sure to delight old and new fans alike....
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