Books like The harlequin tea set and other stories [9 stories] by Agatha Christie

A collection of twelve short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, first published in The Strand Magazine (1891‑92) and compiled in 1892.

Agatha Christie’s 1939 mystery, first titled Ten Little Niggers, revolves around a deadly puzzle on an isolated island, where a group of millionaires is killed one by one. It was later published as And Then There Were None.

A locked‑in murder on the Orient Express forces detective Hercule Poirot to unravel a mystery among a diverse group of passengers during a snowbound night.

When Belgian detective Hercule Poirot returns to the English village of King's Abbot, he confronts the murder of industrialist Roger Ackroyd, unraveling a web of family secrets and hidden motives that reveal the culprit was nobody he expected.

Two young lovers, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, form a private detective agency and are hired to locate a missing woman named Jane Finn, whose disappearance threatens post‑war Britain.

On a luxury Nile cruise, the glamorous Linnet Ridgeway is found murdered, and intrepid detective Hercule Poirot must uncover the truth amid intrigue, secrets, and false leads.

Colonel and Mrs Bantry find a dead young woman in their library, and her body may be linked to another murder. With their own detective skills stalled, they turn to Miss Marple to unravel the mystery.

During a festive Christmas Eve, the wealthy Simeon Lee is found murdered. Hercule Poirot applies his keen deduction to uncover the killer and prevent further tragedy.

Detective Poirot solves a murder on a short flight from Paris to London, where every passenger, from a cocaine‑addicted countess to a jealous writer, becomes a suspect.

At the seaside town of Crowdean, typist Sheila Webb discovers a corpse surrounded by five clocks at 19 Wilbraham Crescent, a place she was never meant to visit. When the blind owner, Mrs. Pebmarsh, denies any connection, the mystery deepens, compelling intellectual Gordon “Colin” Lamb to turn to the famed detective Hercule Poirot for help.

Hercule Poirot unravels a series of bizarre, Christmas‑season murders, piecing together clues from a warning, a buried corpse, a quarrel, a dietary change, and a dream‑inspired suicide. Each case tests the detective’s famed analytical skill.

A collection of twelve Poirot mysteries, each loosely themed on one of the mythic Labours of Hercules, showcasing the Belgian detective’s final cases with familiar allies and Inspector Japp.

In London, three women share a flat and a mystery when the third claims she has committed murder and then vanishes. Hercule Poirot must piece together rumours and evidence to determine her guilt, innocence, or madness.

A collection of Agatha Christie’s early Hercule Poirot tales, featuring fourteen stories narrated by Captain Arthur Hastings and two by Poirot himself, showcasing the detective’s developing “grey cells” and the Belgian police roots behind his brilliance.

When new owners of Monkswell Manor open their guesthouse in a heavy snowstorm, a murder in London and a police inquiry suggest the manor itself may be next on the hit list.

A compact collection of Christie’s most memorable short stories, featuring her iconic detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, set in London, England’s countryside, and even a Parisian chamber of horror.

A detective must untangle a baffling murder case in which an amnesiac doctor discovers his pivotal alibi, while the convicted killer’s wrongful trial leaves the truth hidden and the danger still looming.

Clarissa, the second wife of Henry Hailsham-Brown is known for spinning tales of adventure, but when a murder takes place in her own drawing-room, she finds live drama much harder to cope with, especially as she suspects that the murderer might be her young stepdaughter, Pippa.Originally a play, this was novelised in 2000 by Charles Osborne. Agatha Christie originally wrote the play for Margaret Lockwood. The play premiered in London on 13th December 1954.

Nine compact mystery tales by Agatha Christie, including a story where a young couple opens a guest house unaware that one of their first guests is a murderer.

>Why has Pelham Hargrave returned to his childhood home after twenty-five successful years in Canada and the United States, and is his beautiful and neurotic young American wife quite what she claims to be? Why has a celebrated Hollywood director chosen to retire to a remote English country house, and why does one young woman covet the house and another abhor it? Above all, what is the secret of old Nannie's power, which allows her to dominate the household like some implacable Buddha in a rocking chair? >These are some of the questions which confront Tessa Crichton, actress wife of Scotland Yard detective Robin Price, when she arrives to spend a quiet weekend with her godmother in Herefordshire. One by one the puzzles are unravelled, thanks to Tessa's spirited and irrepressible curiosity, plus a little help from her husband, but not before two people have died and Tessa herself has narrowly escaped the same fate. >This is a traditional whodunnit, written with Anne Morice's customary verve and humour with plenty of clues cunningly distributed.

In Charleston’s vibrant Spoleto festival, tea‑shop owner Theodosia Browning faces a murderer when a prominent auctioneer falls dead on her cake, prompting her to probe art forgery, fraud, and murder in the Low Country.

Theodosia Browning investigates the murder of her ex-boyfriend at the grand opening of Charleston's Neptune Aquarium.