Russell's ebook Library
4.50 From Paddington
Agatha Christie
Miss Marple [7]: E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on 4.50 from Paddington;2) "The Marples": the complete guide to all the cases of crime literature's foremost female detective.For an instant the two trains ran si...
The ABC Murders
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [45]: There's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way though the alphabet. There seems little chance of the murderer being caught - until her makes the crucial and vain mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot to frustrate ...
Absent in the Spring
Agatha Christie
First published between 1930 and 1956, the six novels written by Agatha Christie under the name Mary Westmacott, regarded by some as the writer's finest work, show a very different side of her talent. What they share with her other fiction is Christi...
After the Funeral
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [76]: When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard's funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richard's will, Cora was clearly hear...
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
The World's Bestselling Mystery "Ten . . ."Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious "U.N. Owen." "Nine . . ."At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by ...
Appointment with Death
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [52]: Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her. With only 24 hours availab...
At Bertram's Hotel
Agatha Christie
Miss Marple [10]: E-book exclusive extras:Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on At Bertram's Hotel; "The Marples": the complete guide to all the cases of crime literature's foremost female detective. When Jane Marple comes up from the count...
An Autobiography
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie's 'most absorbing mystery' -- her own autobiography.Over the three decades since her death on 12 January 1976, many of Agatha Christie's readers and reviewers have maintained that her most compelling book is probably still her least w...
The Big Four
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [29]: Hercule Poirot is preparing for a voyage to South America. Looming in the doorway of his bedroom is an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust and mud. The man’s gaunt face registers Poirot for a moment, and then he col...
Black Coffee
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [35]: This little known mystery will surprise and delight Christie fans.The story concerns a physicist named Sir Claude Amory who has come up with a formula for an atom bomb. In the first act, Sir Claude is poisoned (in his coffee, nat...
The Body in the Library
Agatha Christie
Miss Marple [2]: E-book exclusive extras: Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on The Body in the Library; "The Marples": the complete guide to all the cases of crime literature's foremost female detective.The very-respectable Colonel and Mrs ...
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Agatha Christie
Tommy and Tuppence [4]: Incoherent ramblings or clues? It's a toss up for Tommy and Tuppence On their visit to Sunny Ridge Rest Home, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford can't make heads or tails of what dotty Mrs. Lancaster is trying to tell them. But when...
Cards on the Table
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [50]: Mr. Shaitana was famous as a flamboyant party host, but he was a man of whome everybody was a little afraid. So, when he boasted to Hercule Poirot that he considered murder and art form, the detective had some reservations about...
A Caribbean Mystery
Agatha Christie
Miss Marple [9]: As Jane Marple sat basking in the tropical sunshine she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened.Then a question was put to her by a stranger: ‘Would you li...
Cat Among the Pigeons
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [79]: Unpleasant things are going on in an exclusive school for girls - things like murder!Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among t...
The Clocks
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [80]: At her new job, Sheila Webb finds a corpse surrounded by five clocks, each set to a different time. Fortunately, Hercule Poirot has nothing but time to piece together one of his most puzzling cases.
Crooked House
Agatha Christie
In a sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinley Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years h...
Curtain: Poirot's Last Case
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [84]: The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly ordinary to Captain Hastings: there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife...
A Daughter's a Daughter
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie's forgotten psychological romance novels are now being published under her own name for the first time - Mary Westmacott.Ann and Richard's love is sabotaged by Ann's daughter Sarah, who cannot contemplate her mother remarrying...
Dead Man's Folly
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [78]: Whilst organising a mock murder hunt for the village fete hosted by Sir George and Lady Stubbs, a feeling of dread settles on the famous crime novelist Adriane Oliver. Call it instinct, but it's a feeling she just can't explain…o...
Death Comes as the End
Agatha Christie
In this startling historical mystery, unique in the author's canon, Agatha Christie investigates a deadly mystery at the heart of a dissonant family in ancient Egypt.Imhotep, wealthy landowner and priest of Thebes, has outraged his sons and daughters...
Death in the Clouds
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [43]: From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-conc...
Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [51]: The tranquillity of a 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 Po...
Destination Unknown
Agatha Christie
When a number of leading scientists disappear without trace, concern grows within the international intelligence community. Are they being kidnapped? Blackmailed? Brainwashed?One woman appears to have the key to the mystery. Unfortunately, Olive Bett...
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