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Agatha Christie’s beloved detective Hercule Poirot solves the murder of an American heiress by restaging her final journey by night train—with all of the suspects aboard.When the fabled Blue Train, the luxury overnight passenger express to the Riviera, arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to awaken Rut... Read More about The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot #5)

New York Times bestselling author Laura Thompson returns with Heiresses, a fascinating look at the lives of heiresses throughout history and the often tragic truth beneath the gilded surface.Heiresses: surely they are among the luckiest women on earth. Are they not to be envied, with their private j... Read More about Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies

A hardcover omnibus of the comic masterpieces that made Nancy Mitford famous: madcap tales of growing up among the privileged and eccentric in England and finding love in all the wrong places.Nancy Mitford modeled the characters in her two best-known novels on her own famously unconventional family.... Read More about The Pursuit of Love; Love in a Cold Climate: Introduction by Laura Thompson (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

A clever murder mystery featuring recurring character Superintendent Battle that pokes light-hearted fun at the international spy thriller genreGerry Wade is famous for over-sleeping, but when a group of his fellow young guests at a country house weekend decide to play a prank on him by setting eigh... Read More about The Seven Dials Mystery: A Novel

Tommy and Tuppence, Agatha Christie’s bantering pair of 1920s bright young things, solve mysteries together as a pair of newlyweds in this delightful collection of linked short stories.Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Crowley, after their first foray into amateur crime-solving in Christie’s earlier nove... Read More about Partners in Crime: Stories (Tommy and Tuppence)

The letters that led to Edith Thompson's execution in 1923, collected in print for the first time by the award-winning author of Rex vs Edith Thompson. A hundred years ago, on the night of 3 October 1922, a thirty-two-year-old clerk named Percy Thompson was stabbed to death as he walked home to his ... Read More about Au Revoir Now Darlint: The Letters of Edith Thompson