Agatha ChristieThe Mysteries Volume 1 (5 Books)

About

Born in Torquay in 1890, Agatha Christie began writing during the First World War and wrote over 100 novels, plays, and short story collections. She was still writing to great acclaim until her death, and her books have now sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in over 100 foreign languages. Yet Agatha Christie was always a very private person, and though Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple became household names, the Queen of Crime was a complete enigma to all but her closest friends. This collection is just five of her most sought-after murder mystery novels.

Titles Include:

• The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Beware! Peril to the detective who says: "It is so small - it does not matter..." Everything matters.'

After the Great War, life can never be the same again. Wounds need healing, and the horror of violent death is banished into memory. Captain Arthur Hastings is invited to the rolling country estate of Styles to recuperate from injuries sustained at the Front. It is the last place he expects to encounter murder. Fortunately, he knows a former detective, a Belgian refugee, who has grown bored of retirement...

• The Murder on the Links

The premise is gripping right from the start: a wealthy client, Paul Renauld, is found murdered on a golf course in France. Poirot is summoned to investigate, only to find that he’s too late to save the man, whose body is discovered in a shallow grave. The bizarre details immediately set the stage for intrigue: the victim is wearing a coat too large for him, and there is a mysterious love letter found on his body. As Poirot starts to piece together the details of the crime, another shock comes—another body, almost identical in nature, is found under similarly suspicious circumstances.

• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Known for its startling reveal, this is the book that changed Agatha Christie’s career.

Roger Ackroyd was a man who knew too much. He knew the woman he loved had poisoned her first husband. He knew someone was blackmailing her – and now he knew she had taken her own life with a drug overdose. Soon the evening post would let him know who the mystery blackmailer was. But Ackroyd was dead before he’d finished reading it – stabbed through the neck where he sat in the study.

• The Big Four

Framed in the doorway of Poirot’s bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man’s gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell. Who was he? Was he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what was the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper? Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigue, risking his life to uncover the truth about ‘Number Four’.

• The Mystery of the Blue Train

Aboard the luxurious Blue Train running from London to the Riviera, pampered millionaire's daughter Ruth Kettering is murdered, her expensive jewels stolen. But Poirot is at hand to solve the case.