Ellery Page is ready for a change, and when he learns he’s inherited a bookstore and a mansion in the quaint seaside village of Pirate’s Cove, it’s full steam ahead. Until he discovers the truth of his inheritance and an enemy is found dead in the bookstore.
The season had begun. Debutantes and chaperones were planning their luncheons, teas, dinners, balls. The blackmailer was planning his strategies, stalking his next victim. And a body is found in the back of a taxi.
It’s an omnibus of nine short stories in the Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Parker Pyne vintage mystery series.
Agatha Christie’s Three Blind Mice and Other Stories as an omnibus of nine stories in the vintage mystery genre that includes Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, and Harley Quin.
What begins as a routine case turns out to be the most momentous of Roderick Alleyn’s career. For before he can corner the killer, his heart is captured by one of the suspects — the flashing-eyed painter Agatha Troy, who has nothing but scorn for Alleyn.
Death was served well-chilled and Inspector Roderick Alleyn must uncork this mystery and uncover a devious killer.
It was an ecstasy that ended in death after Cara Quayne drank the ritual wine. Discovering how the fatal cyanide got into the bizarre group’s wine is but one of the perplexing riddles that confronts Scotland Yard’s Inspector Roderick Alleyn.
When Britain’s Home Secretary complained of abdominal pains, it seemed like a simple case of appendicitis. But minutes after his operation, the ill-fated politician lay dead on the table. When Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn arrives to dissect the situation, he finds many a likely suspect, including a vengeful surgeon, a lovelorn nurse, an unhappy wife, and political foes.
Detective Eve Dallas remembers Julie Dockport all too well, being personally responsible for her incarceration nearly ten years ago. And now, let out on good behavior, she still has nothing but bad intentions. It appears she wants to meet Dallas again — in a reunion neither will forget.
The candlelight, the music, the rose petals strewn across the bed — a seduction meant for his benefit, not hers. He hadn’t intended to kill her. Lieutenant Eve Dallas hasn’t much to go on, but she’ll get him . . .