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As he films the final episode, actor David Suchet recalls his experience of playing Agatha Christie's world-famous detective, Hercule Poirot, for almost a quarter of a century.
London. 22nd December. Chief Inspector Brett Nightingale and Sergeant Beddoes have been called to a gloomy flat off Islington High Street. An elderly woman lies dead on th...
A signalman is found dead by a railway tunnel. A man identifies his wife as a victim of murder on the underground. Two passengers mysteriously disappear between stations, ...
Adrian Gray was born in May 1862 and met his death through violence, at the hands of one of his own children, at Christmas, 1931. Thus begins a classic crime novel publish...
Christmas is a mysterious, as well as magical, time of year. Strange things can happen, and this helps to explain the hallowed tradition of telling ghost stories around th...
An enthralling, elegant, emotional account of a journey into exile
The writer and satirist Teffi was a literary sensation in Russia until war and revolution forced her ...
For lovers of the supernatural and the macabre comes this collection of ghostly and chilling stories from legendary mystery writer Agatha Christie. Fantastic psychic visio...
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Life is a turbulent journey, fraught with confusion, heartbreak,...
Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. She wrote over 100 novels, short story collections and plays and her books have sold over ...
The newly-orphaned Anne Beddingfield came to London expecting excitement. She didn't expect to find it on the platform of Hyde Park Corner tube station. When a fellow pass...
In classic noir tradition, English professor Karen Pelletier gains a client when her office door opens and a famous crime novelist enters. The author is dogged by Trouble,...
In order to introduce herself to the picturesque English village where she has just retired, Mrs. Agatha Raisin enters a quiche in a local competition and promptly finds h...
Murder - a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And a very strange, very British obsession. But where did this fixation deve...
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world--a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and s...
All over the world, flowers are an integral part of human culture whether it is the perfect table centre for a wedding, a beautiful bouquet for a birthday, a message of th...
After they met in 1922, Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf began a passionate relationship that lasted until Woolf's death in 1941. Their revealing correspondence leav...
A brilliant and original fiction debut set in the exotic world of 1930s British theatre.
March 1934. Revered mystery writer Josephine Tey is traveling from Scotland to ...
Etwas an der schrecklichen Szene auf dem Londoner Untergrundbahnhof ist verwirrend und unwirklich, und Anne Beddingfelds angeborene Neugier treibt sie dazu, die Wahrheit h...
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An epic tale of a final battle between good and evil. The Strega-Borgias are in deep fear for their lives!
The forces of evil are converging on StregaSchloss - demons, ...