Book Review: Agatha Christie’s “The Submarine Plans”
Poirot is summoned to the home of the head of the Ministry of Defense, to investigate the theft of top-secret plans for a new submarine.
Poirot is summoned to the home of the head of the Ministry of Defense, to investigate the theft of top-secret plans for a new submarine.
Poirot must prove the innocence of a young bank manager who has had a million dollars in bonds stolen from him while on a boat voyage to New York.
A not-quite-fake medium upsets newspaper man David Flynn on several levels even as news of a serial killer rampages through the county.
Welcome to Dead End, Florida, where the pawnshop never, ever deals in vampire teeth, although broke clowns, a bad-fortune telling machine, and a greedy mob boss do.
It’s a masquerade party with a ghost hunt at the end that ends in murder, and Ellery Page is knee deep with competing love interests.
McGee heads to New York at the request of one his former war buddies to help his sister. For Nina – a career girl living alone in Manhattan – offers Travis McGee companionship and the first loose thread in the elaborate fabric of a gigantic swindle.
An omnibus of thirteen very short stories in the Commander George Gideon police procedural series set in the 1960s and revolving around a compassionate police commander.
It’s Mrs Todd’s frustration over her cook leaving without a word and several articles in a sensationalist newspaper that causes Hercule Poirot to link all these “coincidences” together.
An anthology of eight short stories that terrify with the snick of a lock. The squeak of door hinges. The creak of a floorboard.
The approaching steps that might be of a lover or an enemy.