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Agatha Christie Crime Collection: The Hallowe'en Party / Passenger to Frankfurt / The Thirteen Problems

Agatha Christie
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ISBN: 0701814640

Hallowe'en Party
A children's party (even a Hallowe'en party, with its overtones of mild spookiness) seems an unlikely setting for a murder. Just as Woodleigh Common, almost the archetype of the Quiet English Village, seems an unlikely place for anything quite so brutal as this particluar murder. Yet, murder it was - and nothing else. Children, however peculiar, do not drown themselves, either deliberately or accidentally, by plunging their heads into galvanized buckets nearly full of water. The victim had not been particularly well-liked by either contemporaries or adults. But such knowledge is little help to Hercule Poirot. One does not kill just because one does not like. More to the point was the fact that the deceased had claime, loudly and publicly, to have been the witness of a murder. Whose murder? And when? These are the questions that Poirot sets out to answer; and their answering shows that the death-in-a-bucket is neither the first nor last link in a chain of dark deeds in this peaceful village.

Passenger to Frankfurt
Christie-with-a difference; no body-in-the-library mystery, but a fantasy that could possibly be today. Christie's theme is the atmosphere of crime, violence and negativeness that has become an undercurrent of our existence, and to whose reality every newspaper every day gives testimony, could be other than an accident. A generation is developing, or has already developed, which is all too ready to accept or join in such violent goings-on; and there are many among them who have a passionate belief that youth is in itself a virtue which entitles its possessors to rule the earth they must inherit, now.

Could any organization, from under cover, subtly direct such diverse and seemingly unrelated events as plane-jackings, kidnappings, student-riots and drug-smuggling with the aim of ultimately controlling them and creating a New Order out of the chaos to which they could give rise?

Starting with an accidental meeting with a strange woman at Frankfurt Airport, Stafford Nye finds himself caught up in events which make friend and foe hard to distinguish, and in which exalted rank is no guarantee of loyalty.

The Thirteen Problems - short stories
1. The Tuesday Night Club
2. The Idol House of Astarte
3. Ingots of Gold
4. The Blood-Stained Pavement
5. Motive v. Opportunity
6. The Thumb Mark of St. Peter
7. The Blue Geranium
8. The Companion
9. The Four Suspects
10. A Christmas Tragedy
11. The Herb of Death
12. The Affair at the Bungalow
13. Death by Drowning
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
512 pages
Publication:
1980
Publisher:
Lansdowne Press
Edition:
Crime Collection
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
ISBN13:
kindle Asin:
B0DM17K8ZS

Agatha Christie Crime Collection: The Hallowe'en Party / Passenger to Frankfurt / The Thirteen Problems

Agatha Christie
3.64/5 (107 ratings)
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ISBN: 0701814640

Hallowe'en Party
A children's party (even a Hallowe'en party, with its overtones of mild spookiness) seems an unlikely setting for a murder. Just as Woodleigh Common, almost the archetype of the Quiet English Village, seems an unlikely place for anything quite so brutal as this particluar murder. Yet, murder it was - and nothing else. Children, however peculiar, do not drown themselves, either deliberately or accidentally, by plunging their heads into galvanized buckets nearly full of water. The victim had not been particularly well-liked by either contemporaries or adults. But such knowledge is little help to Hercule Poirot. One does not kill just because one does not like. More to the point was the fact that the deceased had claime, loudly and publicly, to have been the witness of a murder. Whose murder? And when? These are the questions that Poirot sets out to answer; and their answering shows that the death-in-a-bucket is neither the first nor last link in a chain of dark deeds in this peaceful village.

Passenger to Frankfurt
Christie-with-a difference; no body-in-the-library mystery, but a fantasy that could possibly be today. Christie's theme is the atmosphere of crime, violence and negativeness that has become an undercurrent of our existence, and to whose reality every newspaper every day gives testimony, could be other than an accident. A generation is developing, or has already developed, which is all too ready to accept or join in such violent goings-on; and there are many among them who have a passionate belief that youth is in itself a virtue which entitles its possessors to rule the earth they must inherit, now.

Could any organization, from under cover, subtly direct such diverse and seemingly unrelated events as plane-jackings, kidnappings, student-riots and drug-smuggling with the aim of ultimately controlling them and creating a New Order out of the chaos to which they could give rise?

Starting with an accidental meeting with a strange woman at Frankfurt Airport, Stafford Nye finds himself caught up in events which make friend and foe hard to distinguish, and in which exalted rank is no guarantee of loyalty.

The Thirteen Problems - short stories
1. The Tuesday Night Club
2. The Idol House of Astarte
3. Ingots of Gold
4. The Blood-Stained Pavement
5. Motive v. Opportunity
6. The Thumb Mark of St. Peter
7. The Blue Geranium
8. The Companion
9. The Four Suspects
10. A Christmas Tragedy
11. The Herb of Death
12. The Affair at the Bungalow
13. Death by Drowning
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
512 pages
Publication:
1980
Publisher:
Lansdowne Press
Edition:
Crime Collection
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
ISBN13:
kindle Asin:
B0DM17K8ZS

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