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Piece together a classic Poirot novel full of intrigue and atmosphereStep into the atmospheric scene of one of Christie’s best-known Poirot novels, Death on the Nile. Climb aboard the Karnak steamer as it glides down the River Nile and meet the enigmatic guests aboard, including glamorous Linnet Ridgeway and her new husband, Simon Doyle. When the river cruise takes a nasty turn, can you help Poirot work out whodunnit and why? This richly detailed jigsaw is full of hidden clues to help crack the case.1000-PIECE PUZZLE measuring 68 x 48.5cm (27 x 19 inches) when completed.FOLD-OUT POSTER with an introduction to the novel – avoiding spoilers!DETAILED ILLUSTRATION showing all the characters as well as lots of hidden details, clues and references.LAURENCE KING has been capturing imaginations and inspiring creativity in new and unexpected ways for over 30 years, with playful and eye-catching games, gifts and books.
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Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless in post-war Vienna to visit his friend and hero, Harry Lime. But Harry has died in suspicious circumstances, and the police are closing in on his associates.
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Private detective Albert Campion is summoned to the village of Kepesake to investigate a particularly distasteful death. The body turns out to be that of Pig Peters, freshly killed five months after his own funeral. Soon other corpses start to turn up, just as Pig’s body goes missing. It takes all Campion’s coolly incisive powers of detection to unravel the crime.
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As dusk falls on an English summer, a detective interviews a stranger with a sinister story to tell. Among the sands of an Egyptian desert, a tourist buys a souvenir which is not quite as it seems. On the sparkling waters of the Scilly Isles, a boating trip turns deadly. It might be the height of summer, but in the midday sun – it’s murder. Ten tales of murder, mystery and mayhem.
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A delightfully nostalgic and fun puzzle book, set in the Golden Age of crime fiction, with eighty murders to solve.
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Musashino, 1959. A young Japanese flight attendant is found strangled on the icy banks of the river. The police suspect foul play – but the deeper they dig, the more they collide with a wall of silence. At the centre of it all stands a foreign priest and the Guglielmo Church, a charitable Christian mission. The dead woman’s connection to the church is undeniable. But what begins as a routine investigation quickly turns into something far more treacherous, entangling together narcotics, post-war relief schemes and the delicate web of international diplomacy. As the story moves from back alleys to diplomatic sanctuaries, following the twists and turns of Detective Fujisawa’s investigation, Seicho Matsumoto masterfully constructs a slow-burning procedural where truth is clear but justice is not permitted.
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London, 1953. One foggy night, in the dead of February, a diffident young man arrives unannounced at 42 Tregunter Road in Chelsea. Self-styled Bohemian Mrs Honor Wilson, who runs a minor literary journal and lodgings from this timeworn Victorian house, introduces him to her ‘dear house guests’: Robbie, the writer; Mina, the aspiring socialite; George, the debutante; and Saul, the refugee poet. Jimmy Sullivan is a family friend, Honor says – yet clearly, something is very amiss. Despite everyone’s suspicions, she lets the stranger move into the attic. As they each try to disprove Jimmy’s dubious account of himself, secrets, jealousies, and disturbing schemes come to light, fracturing the household’s delicate allegiances and setting in motion, unstoppably, a tale of perilous self-invention, complicated love, and murderous revenge.
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Embark on a journey across Europe with Agatha Christie and some of her most iconic creations in this collection of short stories.
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‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ is the most famous and enduringly popular Sherlock Holmes story of all. It is a landmark detective novel and a landmark in popular culture. It counterpoints the modern rational, scientific, medical, urban world of Holmes with the older local world of landscape, folklore, supernaturalism, and sense of place.
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Written in 1859, ‘The Woman in White’ sealed Wilkie Collins’ reputation as the early master of detective fiction. Indeed, Collins considered it to be his best work. Using multiple narrators, Collins weaves a fine tale around the mysterious woman who dresses entirely in white and the uncovering of the family secret of Sir Percival Glyde. It highlights the unequal position of married women that existed at the time of Collins’ writing of the work.
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Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner, washing away the remains of brutal murders and suicides in Chinatown. The bloody messes don’t bother her, not when she’s already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister being pushed in front of a train. Before fleeing the scene, the murderer whispered two words: bat eater. Months pass, the killer is never caught, and Cora can barely keep herself together. She pushes away all feelings, disregards the bite marks that appear on her coffee table, and won’t take her aunt’s advice to prepare for the Hungry Ghost Festival, when the gates of hell open. Cora tries to ignore the rising dread in her stomach, even when she and her co-workers begin finding bat carcasses at their crime scene clean-ups. But Cora can’t ignore the fact that all their recent clean-ups have been the bodies of East Asian women. Soon Cora will learn, you can’t just ignore hungry ghosts.
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A healthy young man dies in his sleep, despite the ringing of seven separate alarm clocks?
