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Agatha Christie’s ingenious mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Lucy Angkatell invited Hercule Poirot to lunch. To tease the great detective, her guests stage a mock murder beside the swimming pool.Unfortunately, the victim plays the scene for real. As his blood drips into the water, John Christow gasps one final word: ‘Henrietta’. In the confusion, a gun sinks to the bottom ...

A man returns from the dead, and the body of a mysterious stranger is found in his room… A few weeks after marrying an attractive young widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the Cloade family fortune. Shortly afterwards, Hercule Poirot receives a visit from the dead man’s sister-in-law who claims she has been warned by ‘spirits’ that Mrs Underhay’s first husband is ...

A strange house A ghost from the past As soon as she moves into Hillside, Gwenda knows there’s something strange about this house. A sealed room. A hidden door.The apparition of a young woman being strangled. But strangest of all – this all seems quite familiar. As her friend Jane Marple investigates, the answer seems to lie in a crime committed nearly twenty years ago.The killer may have gotten away with murder. But Miss Marple is never far behind. Never underestimate Miss M...

A charity murder game at a Devon house turns into the real thing… Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fête, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well known crime writer, agrees to organise their murder hunt. Despite weeks of meticulous planning, at the last minute Ariadne calls her friend Hercule Poirot for his expert assistance.Instinctively, she senses that something sinister is about to happen… Beware –...

A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passenger plane… From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What Poirot did not yet realize was that ...

A letter from beyond the grave One last request An unsolvable crime When Miss Marple receives a letter from the recently deceased millionaire Jason Rafiel, she’s not sure what to make of it. Knowing her deductive skills, he challenges her to solve a crime. If she does so, she will inherit £20,000.The only problem is that he has failed to mention who was involved, or where, and when the crime was committed. Jane Marple is intrigued. Never underestimate Miss Marple ‘Sorry Poiro...

At an apparently respectable dinner party, a vicar is the first to die… 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…...

A dentist lies murdered at his Harley Street practice… The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung right hand. Later, one of his patients was found dead from a lethal dose of local anaesthetic.A clear case of murder and suicide. But why would a dentist commit a crime in the middle of a busy day of appointments? A shoe buckle holds the key to the mystery. Now – in the words of the rhyme – can Poirot pick up th...

‘The Murderer is with us – on the train now…’ It’s just after midnight, and the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift, isolated by the storm. A passenger lies dead, stabbeda dozen times, his door locked from the inside. The world’s greatest detective, Hercule Poirot, must identify the prime suspects from among the small but disparate group of remaining passengers– before the murderer decides to strike again.

Time to bury the hatchet…In a dead man’s sister There are certain things that are best left unsaid. Though tragedy had touched the life of the wealthy Richard Abernethie, his sudden death seemed pretty unremarkable for a man of his age. So why would his sister wait until his funeral to say he had been murdered? When she is savagely killed with a hatchet the next day, her extraordinary remark suddenly takes on a chilling significance.In desperation, the family solicitor turns ...

Kolejna monografia pułku z uwzględnieniem jego szlaku bojowego w okresie kampanii wrześniowej. Zeszyt nr 202

Seria książek "Magia obrazu", adresowana jednocześnie do dzieci i dorosłych, ma być przewodnikiem po świecie kultury wizualnej. Uczy patrzenia poprzez prezentację rozmaitych tematów i przemian formalnych malarstwa, zgodnie z przekonaniem, że sztuka niczym zwierciadło odbija oblicze świata. Kraina lenistwa przedstawia malarstwo Europy, tytułem prowokując zarówno gardzących pracą, jak i gnuśnych umysłowo pracoholików, zaślepionych żądzą pieniądza. Każdej reprodukcji obrazu towa...

Książeczka edukacyjna dla dzieci w wieku przedszkolnym. W części pierwszej znajdują się ilustracje oraz krótkie teksty do czytania z nowo poznaną literą. Książka zawiera zestawy ćwiczeń, dzięki którym dziecko może połączyć naukę pisania i czytania z zabawą, polegającą na wklejaniu naklejek w wyznaczone miejsca, kolorowaniu i odwzorowywaniu. Naklejki i ilustracje kształcą sprawność manualną dziecka oraz są miłym przerywnikiem w pracy dydaktycznej. W części drugiej dziecko pozn...

Proud to be a Mammal (1942-97) is Czeslaw Milosz's moving and diverse collection of essays. Among them, he covers his passion for poetry, his love of the Polish language that was so nearly wiped out by the violence of the twentieth century, and his happy childhood. Milosz also includes a letter to his friend in which he voices his concern about the growing indifference to murder and the true value of freedom of thought, as well as a verbal map of Wilno, with each street revea...

Prawdziwy „groch z kapustą”. Mnóstwo tu dobrotliwych anegdot o dziwakach, roztargnionych uczonych, o ludziach postawionych w komicznej sytuacji. Obok tego wypisy na temat wynalazków. Znajdziemy tu też wspaniałą kolekcję szaleńców i ich dzieł. Osobny dział stanowią matematyczne paradoksy i łamigłówki. Chyba najwięcej jest jednak w tej książce różnorodnych zabaw słownych. Należą do nich dowcipy językowe, rebusy, kpiny z nieporadnego naukowego nazewnictwa powstającego w różnych ...

Ach to sanie Świętego Mikołaja! Wsiadajcie! Renifery zaraz ruszą i... dzyń... dzyń... rozpoczyna się niezapomniana przygoda! Będzie to naprawdę cudowne Boże Narodzenie! Wór prezentów już na was czeka, pierniczki pachną, a bałwanki tańczą wesoło... oczywiście tylko wtedy, gdy nie patrzą na nie dzieci. Ale co to! Mikołaj zakłada na nos okulary... i otwiera świąteczną książkę! Och! To książka z naszymi opowieściami...

With an Introduction by A. M. de Medeiros, University of Kent at Canterbury. A year after the publication of The Three Musketeers,/em>, Alexandre Dumas produced a sequel worthy in every respect of the original. In Twenty Years After the much beloved D'Artaganan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis reunite to fight the forces of evil. In the original novel they defeated Milady, a formidable foe; now they need to face her vengeful son Mordaunt, as well as countering the machinations of t...

With an Introduction and Notes by Scott Brewster, University of Central Lancashire. Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and The Woman in White is his first excursion into the genre. When the hero, Walter Hartright, on a moonlit night in north London, encounters a solitary, terrified and beautiful woman dressed in white, he feels impelled to solve the mystery of her distress. The intricate plot is peopled with a finely characterised cast, from the peevish invalid Mr Fairlie...

Can nature make us happy? How can we know anything? What is justice? Why is there evil in the world? What is the source of truth? Is it possible for God not to exist? Can we really believe what we see? There are questions that have intrigued the world's great thinkers over the ages, which still touch a cord in all of us today. They are questions that can teach us about the way we live, work, relate to each other and see the world. Here, one of the world's greatest living phil...

Chosen by Emma Watson for her feminist book club 'Our Shared Shelf''Women Who Run With The Wolves is a gift of profound insight, wisdom and love. An oracle from one who knows' Alice WalkerIn the classic Women Who Run With The Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes tells us about the 'wild woman', the wise and ageless presence in the female psyche that gives women their creativity, energy and power. For centuries, the 'wild woman' has been repressed by a male-orientated value system w...