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Hercule Poirot Series

This classic detective series by Agatha Christie follows Belgian detective Hercule Poirot as he solves complex crimes with extraordinary logic and insight. Each story is renowned for its surprising twists and intricate plots. Poirot is known for his perfect attention to detail and his ability to uncover the truth, even when it seems hidden. The series is considered one of the best in the detective genre.

Hallowe'en party
The Labours of Hercules
Death in the Air
Cards on the Table
Murder on the Orient Express
Hercule Poirot: The Mysterious Affair at Styles

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    Hercule Poirot: The Mysterious Affair at Styles

    Zjednodušená verze

    • 150 pages
    • 6 hours of reading
    4.3(1467)Add rating

    Patříte mezi pokročilé studenty angličtiny? Raději než teoreticky se vzděláváte praxí? Čtením napínavých příběhů, abyste zvyšovali svou slovní zásobu a rychlost porozumět? Edice Easy Reader je tu přesně pro vás! Stačí nasednout a vézt se! Detektiv Hercule Poirot je u nás dnes známý hlavně díky televiznímu seriálu, jehož scénář čerpá z povídek Agathy Christie, mistryně tajemně zapletených případů s překvapivým rozuzlením na koncích. Náš zjednodušený příběh vychází z povídky „The Mysterious Affair at Styles“. Je určen pro stupeň „Intermediate“. Z toho úvodu je uveden pouze v angličtině bez českého překladu. Jazyk na složitější úrovni je doplněn překladem slovíček a tzv. gramatickými pilulkami. Součástí titulu je samozřejmě i CD namluvené rodilými mluvčími. Titul byl vytvořen týmem internetové jazykové školy www.anglictina.com. Autoři projektu vedeni Petrem Špirkou mají s výukou angličtiny více než desetileté zkušenosti. Své poznatky spojují s moderní technologií – publikovali i připravují českými studenty vyhledávané a ceněné multimediální učebnice.

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    Lord Edgware dies

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    Agatha Christie's famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to 'get rid of' her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead. And yet the great Belgian detective couldn't help feeling that he was being taken for a ride. After all, how could Jane have stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? And what could be her motive now that the aristocrat had finally granted her a divorce?

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    Murder on the Orient Express

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    'The murderer is with us - on the train now...' Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Simon Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer. Isolated by the storm and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer amongst a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again...

    Murder on the Orient Express
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    Three Act Tragedy

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    A crime thriller featuring Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot in which a mild-mannered minister attending a dinner is poisoned, but no trace of poison can be found, and there seems to be absolutely no motive.

    Three Act Tragedy
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    The ABC murders

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    Hercule Poirot has received a letter which is simply signed ‘ABC’. The writer promises a mystery that is too difficult even for the great mind of the famous Belgian detective. Poirot is worried by the letter, but there seems to be no case to solve. And then the murders begin.

    The ABC murders
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    Cards on the Table

    • 320 pages
    • 12 hours of reading
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    A flamboyant party host is murdered in full view of a roomful of bridge players... Mr Shaitana was famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he was a man of whom everybody was a little afraid. So, when he boasted to Poirot that he considered murder an art form, the detective had some reservations about accepting a party invitation to view Shaitana's private collection. Indeed, what began as an absorbing evening of bridge was to turn into a more dangerous game altogether...

    Cards on the Table
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    Death on the Nile = Smrt na Nilu

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    Ve slavné povídce Agathy Christie Smrt na Nilu, která je rovněž známá z filmového přepisu, se Parker Pyne nalodí spolu s pestrou společností na palubu parníku Fayoum, aby poznával monumentální krásy Egypta. Podezřením lady Grayleové, že ji chce manžel otrávit, však začíná série záhadných úmrtí, jejichž pachatele je třeba odhalit, než plavba skončí, a tak má Parker Pyne po dovolené. Výbor obsahuje rovněž povídky Vila Filomela, Plány na ponorku a Herečka. Bilingvní česko-anglické vydání.

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    Appointment with Death

    • 224 pages
    • 8 hours of reading
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    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. With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he’d overheard back in Jerusalem:‘You do see, don’t you, that she’s got to be killed?’ Mrs Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he’d ever met… Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. She wrote 80 crime mysteries and collections, and saw her work translated into more languages than Shakespeare. Her enduring success, enhanced by many film and TV adaptations, is a tribute to the timeless appeal of her characters and the unequalled ingenuity of her plots. ‘Twice as brilliant as 'Death an the Nile', which was entirely brilliant.’THE OBSERVER

    Appointment with Death
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    Hercule Poirot's Christmas

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    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 ...

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    Evil under the Sun

    • 288 pages
    • 11 hours of reading
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    It was not unusual to find the beautiful bronzed body of the sun-loving Arlena Stuart stretched out on a beach, face down. Only, on this occasion, there was no sun...she had been strangled. Ever since Arlena's arrival at the resort, Hercule Poirot had detected sexual tension in the seaside air. But could this apparent 'crime of passion' have been something more evil and premeditated altogether? Belgian detective Hercule Poirot interrupts his vacation on Smugglers' Island to help the local police invetigate the murder of an attractive woman.

    Evil under the Sun
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    Five Little Pigs

    • 240 pages
    • 9 hours of reading
    4.0(2010)Add rating

    Beautiful Caroline Crale Was Convicted Of Poisoning Her Husband, Yet There Were Five Other Suspects: Philip Blake (The Stockbroker) Who Went To Market; Meredith Blake (The Amateur Herbalist) Who Stayed At Home; Elsa Greer (The Three-Time Divorcee) Who Had Roast Beef; Cecilia Williams (The Devoted Governess) Who Had None; And Angela Warren (The Disfigured Sister) Who Cried Wee Wee Wee All The Way Home. It Is Sixteen Years Later, But Hercule Poirot Just Can T Get That Nursery Rhyme Out Of His Mind&

    Five Little Pigs
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    The Hollow

    • 264 pages
    • 10 hours of reading
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    Lady Angkatell, intrigued by the criminal mind, has invited Hercule Poirot to her estate for a weekend house party. The Belgian detective's arrival at the Hollow is met with an elaborate tableau staged for his amusement: a doctor lies in a puddle of red paint, his timid wife stands over his body with a gun while the other guests look suitably shocked. But this is no charade. The paint is blood and the corpse real!

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    After the funeral

    • 256 pages
    • 9 hours of reading
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    When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard's funeral, suddenly takes on a chilling significance.

    After the funeral
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    Hickory dickory dock

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    An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Hercule Poirot’s interest. But when he saw the list of stolen and vandalized items – including a stethoscope, some old flannel trousers, a box of chocolates, a slashed rucksack and a diamond ring found in a bowl of soup – he congratulated the warden, Mrs Hubbard, on a ‘unique and beautiful problem’. The list made absolutely no sense at all. But, reasoned Poirot, if this was merely a petty thief at work, why was everyone at the hostel so frightened?

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    The Clocks

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    Why was the body discovered in the sitting room of the elderly and eminently respectable Miss Millicent Pebmarsh? Why were four strange clocks set at 4:13 precisely? Indeed, why were the clocks there at all? The sudden disappearance of an unidentified corpse of No. 19 Wilbraham Crescent has the police utterly baffled. But pity the villain who matches wits with the dapper and relentless Belgian detective-Hercule Poirot!

    The Clocks
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    Third girl

    • 224 pages
    • 8 hours of reading
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    Three young women share a London flat. The first is a coolly efficient secretary. The second is an artist. The third interrupts Hercule Poirot’s breakfast confessing that she is a murderer—and then promptly disappears. Slowly, Poirot learns of the rumors surrounding the mysterious third girl, her family, and her disappearance. Yet hard evidence is needed before the great detective can pronounce her guilty, innocent, or insane.

    Third girl
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    Hallowe'en party

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    At a Halloween party, Joyce, a hostile 13-year-old, boasts that she once witnessed a murder. 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 killer.

    Hallowe'en party
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    Elephants can remember

    • 304 pages
    • 11 hours of reading
    3.7(30411)Add rating

    Hercule Poirot is determined to solve an old husband and wife double murder that is still an open verdict...Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. Here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies - a husband and wife - shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves back into the past and discovers that 'old sin leave long shadows'.

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    Poirot's early cases

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    Still in the formative years of his career, Hercule Poirot faces a most taxing case: who killed Lord Cronshaw, was Coco Courtenay's death on the same night a coincidence and did she deliberately take an overdose of cocaine?

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    Curtain

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    A wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place...

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  • Murder on the Orient Express: The Graphic Novel

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    Experience Agatha Christie's masterpiece as you've never seen it before with this brand-new graphic novel adaptation--featuring gorgeous full-color illustrations by Bob Al-Greene. "The murderer is with us--on the train now . . ." Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again. This beautiful, full-color graphic novel adaptation brings this favorite mystery to life--perfect for longtime fans and new readers alike.

    Murder on the Orient Express: The Graphic Novel

  • While the Light Lasts

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    This is one of a collection of four newly published short stories by the Queen of Crime Agatha Christie. The stories cover a range of styles, from crime to dark romance and the supernatural.

    While the Light Lasts

  • Hercule Poirot. The Complete Short Stories

    • 800 pages
    • 28 hours of reading
    4.5(720)Add rating

    At Last All The Poirot Short Stories In A Single Volume My Name Is Hercule Poirot And I Am Probably The Greatest Detective In The World. The Dapper, Moustache-Twirling Little Belgian With The Egg-Shaped Head, Curious Mannerisms And Inordinate Respect For His Own Little Grey Cells Has Solved Some Of The Most Puzzling Crimes Of The Century. Appearing In Agatha Christie S Very First Novel In 1920 And Her Very Last In 1975, Hercule Poirot Became The Most Celebrated Detective Since Sherlock Holmes, Appearing In 33 Novels, A Play, And These 51 Short Stories. Arranged In Their Original Publication Order, These Short Stories Provide A Feast For Hardened Agatha Christie Addicts As Well As Those Who Have Grown To Love The Detective Through His Many Film And Television Appearances.

    Hercule Poirot. The Complete Short Stories
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  • The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

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    The New-Look Series Of Hercule Poirot Books For The 21St Century. First Came A Sinister Warning To Poirot Not To Eat Any Plum Pudding& Then The Discovery Of A Corpse In A Chest& Next, An Overheard Quarrel That Led To Murder& The Strange Case Of The Dead Man Who Altered His Eating Habits& And The Puzzle Of The Victim Who Dreamt His Own Suicide. What Links These Five Baffling Cases? The Little Grey Cells Of Monsieur Hercule Poirot!

    The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

  • Black Coffee

    • 208 pages
    • 8 hours of reading
    3.3(673)Add rating

    Sir Claud Amory's revolutionary new formula for a powerful explosive is stolen. Locking his house-guests in the library, Sir Claud switches off the lights to allow the thief to replace the formula, no questions asked. When the lights come on, he is dead, and Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings have to unravel a tangle of family feuds, old flames and suspicious foreigners to find the killer and prevent a global catastrophe.

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  • Problem at Pollensa Bay

    • 320 pages
    • 12 hours of reading
    3.5(303)Add rating

    All Great Crime Writers Have Their Favourite Creations. Similarly, Every Great Sleuth Has His Own Preferred Method Of Deduction. Take The Charming Parker Pyne, Who Relies Upon An Intuitive Knowledge Of Human Nature To Solve The Problem At Pollensa Bay. Or Mr Satterthwaite, Who Seeks Inspiration Through His Collaboration With The Enigmatic Mr Quin In The Harlequin Tea Set Mystery. Then, Of Course, There S Poirot, Whose Measured Analysis Of Motive And Opportunity Is Tested To The Full In Yellow Iris, When He Receives An Anonymous Call About A Matter Of Life And Death.

    Problem at Pollensa Bay