The Hercule Poirot Collection (Deluxe Library Edition): The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Murder on the Links, Poirot Investigates

by Agatha Christie

Overview

The Hercule Poirot Collection includes three books by Agatha Christie; The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Murder on the Links, and Poirot Investigates.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles opens with the discovery that the elderly Emily Inglethorp, has been poisoned. Upon his arrival, inspector Hercule Poirot is faced with a mystery of how poison was administered to Inglethorp, and who would benefit most from her considerable wealth. Poirot must discover every link in a chain of evidence in order to unravel the whole complicated plot and lay the guilt where it belongs.

In The Murder on the Links, Inspector Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings travel to Merlinville-sur-Mer, France, to meet Paul Renauld, who has requested their help. Upon arriving at his home, the local police greet them with news that Renauld has been found dead that morning. What follows is an enthralling mystery, with Poirot piecing together clues and peculiar events to solve the most difficult case of his detective career.

Poirot Investigates is a collection of eleven short stories involving the famed eccentric detective, Hercule Poirot. The problems Poirot unravels are skilfully tangled, and unravelled by the detective's omniscient genius. Throughout the tales, which include The Adventure of the Western Star, The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb, and The Kidnapped Prime Minister, Poirot must solve a variety of mysteries involving greed, jealousy, and revenge.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781774762295
Publisher:	Engage Classics
Publication date:	02/09/2021
Pages:	492
Sales rank:	451,762
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.25(d)

About the Author

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, (15 September 1890 - 12 January 1976) was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie also wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery, The Mousetrap, and, under the pen name Mary Westmacott, six romances. In 1971 she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her contribution to literature. Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon. Before marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the First World War, tending to troops coming back from the trenches. During the Second World War, she worked as a pharmacy assistant at University College Hospital, London, acquiring a good knowledge of poisons which feature in many of her novels. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly 2 billion copies, and her estate claims that her works come third in the rankings of the world's most-widely published books, behind only Shakespeare's works and the Bible. She remains the most-translated individual author, having been translated into at least 103 languages. In 1955, Christie was the first recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's highest honour, the Grand Master Award. Most of her books and short stories have been adapted for television, radio, video games and comics, and more than thirty feature films have been based on her work.

Date of Birth:

September 15, 1890

Date of Death:

January 12, 1976

Place of Birth:

Torquay, Devon, England

Education:

Home schooling

Website:

http://www.agathachristie.com