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Em um legítimo romance policial, Agatha Christie criou mais um mistério a ser solucionado por Poirot, o principal protagonista de suas histórias. Monsieur Hercule Poirot recebe um desesperado pedido de ajuda de um milionário sul-americano, monsieur Renauld. Imediatamente Poirot e seu inseparável assistente Hastings partem para a cidade onde reside o milionário. Ao chegarem à casa de monsieur Renauld, descobrem que ele foi assassinado naquela noite em um crime brutal: apunhalado pelas costas e estirado ao lado de uma cova no campo de golfe da propriedade.

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter, with the language targeted at learners of English.

Nos nove contos reunidos neste audiolivro, Agatha Christie dá as pistas de por que ela fascina gerações de leitores ao redor de todo o mundo. Publicado pela primeira vez em 1950, o audiolivro é uma preciosa amostra do estilo da autora, com sua precisa caracterização das personagens, indícios sendo displicentemente deixados para que o leitor se confunda e a presença marcante de seus mais queridos protagonistas: o excêntrico detetive belga Hercule Poirot e a simpática velhota miss Jane Marple.

Na sala do n° 19 de Wilbraham Crescent, cuja proprietária é uma senhora cega, Sheila Webb, uma estenografa, espera sua cliente. Ali, quatro relógios marcam 16h13, enquanto a mulher encontrará, em pânico, um homem desconhecido, no chão, inerte. Assassinato? Assim começa o envolvente romance policial Os relógios, de Agatha Christie, que conta com o mais famoso personagem da autora: o detetive belga Hercule Poirot.

1915. O navio de passageiros RMS Lusitania acabara de ser torpedeado por forças alemãs. Seu fim era inevitável. A bordo, um homem misterioso deposita todas as suas fichas em uma jovem desconhecida, ao confiar-lhe documentos secretos. Certamente, ela teria maiores chances de sobreviver ao desastre, embarcando em um dos poucos botes salva-vidas restantes. Se os documentos caíssem nas mãos erradas, o futuro dos países aliados estaria comprometido.

Em meio a uma viagem, Hercule Poirot é surpreendido por um telegrama solicitando seu retorno a Londres. Logo o famoso detetive belga embarca no Expresso do Oriente, que está inesperadamente cheio para aquela época do ano.

As Jane Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Eventually, her interest was aroused by an old soldier's yarn about a strange coincidence. Infuriatingly, just as he was about to show her an astonishing photograph, the Major's attention wandered. He never did finish the story.

Back in print in an all-new edition is the engaging and illuminating chronicle of the life of the "Queen of Mystery". Fans of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple and readers of John Curran’s fascinating biographies Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks and Murder in the Making will be spellbound by the compelling, authoritative account of one of the world’s most influential and fascinating novelists, told in her own words and inimitable style - and here in her own voice. These audio excerpts were dictated by Agatha Christie herself.

Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her.

Thirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actor's house. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, went into convulsions and died. But when his martini glass was sent for chemical analysis, there was no trace of poison, just as Poirot had predicted. Even more troubling for the great detective, there was absolutely no motive.

Christmas Eve, and the Lee family's reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. When Hercule Poirot offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man....

A classic Christie mystery. Read by Hugh Fraser who plays Hugh Fraser in the popular TV series. At a Hallowe’en party, Joyce – a hostile thirteen-year-old – boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the ‘evil presence’. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer…

Amy Leatheran had never felt the lure of the mysterious East, but when she travels to an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert to nurse the wife of a celebrated archaeologist, events prove stranger than she could ever have imagined. Her patient's bizarre visions and nervous terror seem unfounded, but as the oppressive tension in the air thickens, events come to a terrible climax in murder.

It’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing an evening dress and heavy makeup, which is now smeared across her cheeks. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is the connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry? The respectable Bantrys invite Miss Marple into their home to investigate. Amid rumors of scandal, she baits a clever trap to catch a ruthless killer.

Miss Marple schwelgt in alten Erinnerungen und will ein paar ruhige Tage in Bertrams Hotel in London verbringen. Doch plötzlich verschwindet ein ehrenwerter Stammgast des Hotels: Kanonikus Pennyfather wollte zu einem Kongress nach Luzern, ist dort aber nie angekommen. Chief-Inspector Fred Davy bittet Miss Marple um Hilfe, hat sie doch den Verschwundenen zuletzt gesehen. Und schon bald sind sich die beiden Ermittler einig: die Idylle des komfortablen Hotels ist nur Fassade.

Chipping Cleghorn é uma cidade pequena na qual todos se conhecem. Até que, um dia, um anúncio no jornal convida todos para um homicídio que acontecerá na casa de Letitia Blacklock. Levados pela curiosidade, os moradores da cidadezinha decidem comparecer no horário marcado. O que parecia ser uma brincadeira inocente rapidamente se transforma em uma tragédia quando as luzes se apagam, tiros são disparados e uma pessoa é assassinada.

To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning? Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman's head? Or was it when the priest's assailant searched him so roughly, he tore the clergyman's cassock? Or could it have been the priest's visit, just minutes before, to a woman on her deathbed? Or was there a deeper significance to the violent squabble that Mark Easterbrook had himself witnessed earlier?

Poirot está se preparando para sua primeira travessia transatlântica. O destino? A América Latina, mais precisamente o Rio. Mas pouco antes de embarcar, um homem invade a casa do investigador. O intruso se comporta como um louco, chamando por Poirot, rabiscando febrilmente o número 4 e balbuciando palavras desconexas. Até que, como num transe, começa a falar sobre os Quatro Grandes. Mas quem são eles? Uma organização clandestina? Hercule Poirot se vê em meio a uma intriga internacional, que envolve armas secretas, sequestros, laboratórios subterrâneos e fugas de tirar o fôlego.

Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U.N. Owen. Over dinner, a record begins to play, and the voice of an unseen host accuses each person of hiding a guilty secret. That evening, former reckless driver Tony Marston is found murdered by a deadly dose of cyanide. The tension escalates as the survivors realise the killer is not only among them but is preparing to strike again...and again.

Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious "U.N. Owen". At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by the end of the night one of the guests is dead. Stranded by a violent storm, and haunted by a nursery rhyme counting down one by one...one by one they begin to die. Who among them is the killer? And will any of them survive?