Belgian detective Hercule Poirot tries to learn the identity of the person who is trying to murder Miss Nick Buckley.

This book tells his story decade-by-decade, exploring his appearances not only in the original novels, short stories and plays but also across stage, screen and radio productions. This hardback edition includes more than 400 illustrations.

A mortician and forensic expert explores the real-life cases that inspired Agatha Christie, showing how the great mystery writer might have kept current with the latest advancements in forensic science.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Agatha Christie.

"In December 1926, Agatha Christie goes missing. Investigators find her empty car on the edge of a deep, gloomy pond, the only clues some tire tracks nearby and a fur coat left in the car-strange for a frigid night. Her World War I veteran husband and her daughter have no knowledge of her whereabouts, and England unleashes an unprecedented manhunt to find the up-and-coming mystery author. Eleven days later, she reappears, just as mysteriously as she...

Agatha Christie--the Queen of Crime--travels to the breathtaking Canary Islands to investigate the mysterious death of a British agent in this riveting twisty thriller.

Contains: Agatha and the Midnight Murders

"Hercule Poirot's quiet super in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified--but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will be done. Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a fashionable London hotel have been murdered, and a monogrammed cufflink has been place in each one's mouth. Could there be a connection...

"Baghdad, 1928. Agatha Christie has traveled to the excavation of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur to investigate an unsolved mystery: two years ago, the explorer and writer Gertrude Bell died there from a drug overdose. At the time, authorities believed that Bell had taken her own life, but a letter recently unearthed reveals she was afraid someone intended to kill her. Upon arrive, Agatha encounters Miss Bell's former rival, the enigmatic archaeologist...

Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism.