Agatha Christie
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Considered one of the greatest mysteries of all times, ten strangers, each with a dark secret, are gathered together on an isolated island by a mysterious host. One by one, they die, and before the weekend is out, there will be none.
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Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift. Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment. Incredibly, that compartment is locked from the inside. With no escape into the wintery landscape the killer must still be on board. Fortunately, the brilliant...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Hercule Poirot may be on vacation, but a killer isn't. The victim's a hateful tourist despised even by her own children. For the guests at the resort hotel, sympathies are with the murderer, which means a tough job for the Belgian detective.
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 15
Language
English
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All the best ingredients are here: an idyllic cruise in an exotic setting, a beautiful young woman on her honeymoon, a shocking murder with suspects galore. Fortunately Hercule Poirot is on the scene, thanks to a cruise holiday on the River Nile, and he exercises all his "little grey cells" in probing the passengers' airtight alibis.
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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"Love can propel us to our greatest heights...and darkest depths. In this new collection of Agatha Christie short stories, witness the dark side of love--crimes of passion, games of the heart, and deadly affairs"--
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Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
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The murder of Colonel Protheroe -- shot through the head -- is a shock to everyone in St Mary Mead, though hardly an unpleasant one. Now even the vicar, who had declared that killing the detested Protheroe would be 'doing the world at large a favour, ' is a suspect -- the Colonel has been dispatched in the clergyman's study, no less. But the picturesque English village of St Mary Mead is overpopulated with suspects. There is of course the faithless...
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English
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Fourteen years after the wife of the renowned painter Amyas Crale was sent to the gallows for poisoning her husband, their daughter Lucy returns from Canada. Lucy carries with her a letter that suggests that her mother might have been innocent. Poirot agrees to dig up the past, but he warns Lucy that she may not like what he finds.
Author
Series
Jane Marple murder mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Distributed by Workman Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
191 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cheap satin and peroxide blondes were a rare sight in St. Mary Mead, at least before film-man Basil Blake bought a cottage and invited down the London crowd. Then a girl in a garish get-up is found strangled in Colonel Bantry's library, and it appears Basil is involved. But when suspicion falls on the colonel, Miss Marple sets out to prove his innocence.
15) Towards zero
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English
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When two seemingly unrelated murders occur, it's up to Superintendent Battle to go back twenty years to uncover the truth.
20) Crooked house
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English
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Aristide Leonides is poisoned and suspicion falls on his beautiful, young widow but criminologist Charles Hayward has his doubts and sets out to find the real killer.